After a fun family weekend kayaking (but not fishing) on the Saco River near North Conway we made it back to Wolfeboro to rap up our trip. We are flying home on Wednesday. There are always a few things I need to officially say goodbye to for the year here in NH: First my smallie waters which I will do early Tuesday and the other is Back Bay. Granny and I paddled the canoe there around 6 PM this evening.
Fishing in Back Bay has been lackluster the last few years and my one trip here last week was really slow. Being we weren’t expecting much, I packed beers for me and champagne for Granny. She lounged from the front on cushions, passing her empty glass to me by canoe paddle. I made some casts here in there but for the most part simply took it all in. After all, Back Bay is where I truly fell in love with fishing more than 50 years ago.
Fishing was indeed awful. I’m sad to say we caught a mere one bluegill. We really didn’t fish hard but no doubt the weed poisoning and scooping has taken its toll on the once cherished Wolfeboro waters.
At 8 PM we tied up at the Yacht Club and had a nice dinner at Nolan’s. Tomorrow I’m going solo at 4 AM for one more big smallmouth on the popper
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