Bob Rivet and Paul Carvalho Win Mass Bass Federation Team Trail Opener at Mashpee/Wakeby
The Mass Bass Federation Trail opened up the 2014 Trail with a stop at Mashpee/Wakeby on the Cape. The lake is known for great bag of fish at the weigh-ins. The weather has been cold and windy, dirtying up the water which made for some tough fishing. As always there is someone that can find the fish. The Smallmouths were starting to spawn and those that did their homework were rewarded. The team of Bob Rivet and Paul Carvalho had an impressive bag of brown fish weighing 22.35 lb. They also had a 3.48 lbs Smallie which took the lunker pool. Continue reading
The second Mass Bass State Team Benefit was held on Mashpee Wakeby Saturday April 26, 2014; it was overcast and cool to start the day with rain off and on. The bags brought to the scale were no surprise as Mashpee always seems to kick out big bags year after year. With the fish holding in a pre-spawn phase waiting for the water to warm the majority of the fish weighed in were caught throwing jerk baits, jigs, and rattletraps. Congratulations to the top three teams:
This year’s Easter Bunny Open featured better-than-usual weather, it being toward the end of April and all. But it was still no picnic on the water, with temps in the low to mid-50s chilled further by a sustained north/northwest wind of 10-12mph and gusts to 23mph for most of the day. The bluebird skies made it nicer for fishermen but did not help the bite. Water temps barely moved throughout the event, remaining in the upper 40s for the most part, barely reaching 50 in some wind-sheltered spots, but the sun seemed to have little warming effect on the water. Needless to say there was little, if any, sign of early bedding smallmouth. 
Mass Bass Federation State Team held an open on Lake Cochituate Sunday April 12th. You would have thought it was May 12th with the great sunny warm weather they had. Rich Snow and Marc Bourque lite them up to the tune of 20.43 Lbs. They had a 5.37 pound Lake Cochituate largie to take the tournament Lunker. Rich and Marc threw jerk baits, chatter baits and jigs to catch to walk away with the tournament. Second place went to Jason Bacon and Brian Carmichael with 13.5 Lbs. The State Team wants to remind everyone the next State Team Open Benefit will be April 26th at Mashpee/Wakeby Pond.
