Malden Anglers
Malden Anglers' is a fly-fishing club founded in 1947 located in Saugus, Massachusetts just minutes from Boston. Accepting new members !
There are fish to catch at Patkin Pond with Malden Anglers Association in Saugus. Patience, presentation and fly selection all pay off to catch trout on a fly. This rainbow fell for a tiny black midge.
Take a minute and drink in the beauty of Patkin Pond in full autumn color.
Interstate Properties has received blasting, foundation, and building permits from the City of Saugus for the development above the pond, and blasting is expected to begin in early November.
Like many of you, I'm hopeful the impact on our cherished waterscape will be limited. At the same time, it's hard to imagine that a project of this scale won't leave its mark in some fashion.
For now, though, let's simply appreciate what we have before us. The a picture, take a video, take a breath. The still water, the fall colors, and the peaceful setting that has meant so much to so many anglers over the years.
Patkin Pond is about to enter a new chapter. Today, we're fortunate enough to enjoy this one.
Malden Anglers Fish Committee Chairman, Michael Smith, pumps the stomach of a couple of the pond's trout to see what they have been eating. (Yes, Anglers do that!) In two samples we found what looks like a Corixidae or Water Boatman and a mess of minute little scuds.
Other anglers have reported two different types of mayflies and fish caught throughout the sectors of the pond. Bugs are being eaten, the fish are moving around. We just need to catch them.We stocked trout 10 days ago at Malden Anglers and my catch rate has been.. incredibly low. I've tried all the usual things: pheasant tail, jig leech, hare's ear, a bright blob. The only thing that has delivered for me is a pheasant tail on a midge tip line with a slow hand-twist retrieve. My confidence in my fish-catching mojo has been wavering.
So if the fish weren't eating something similar to the flies that I have been fishing with, what exactly have they been eating?
I sampled a couple of trout with the throat pump this afternoon and gained some serious enlightenment. Both fish were eating water boatman, some small-ish scuds, and some even smaller scuds. The small scuds make sense since I know they live in the pond and they reproduce during the summer. But the water boatman was a complete surprise, since I've only seen them on the water in June and July.
As one of our pond friends says, "Learning has occurred."
Zoom in for some scud-ness. I had to put on the zoom glasses to see exactly what they were because they're really small.