Sudbury River - River Road to Lee's Bridge & Back

Today's trash patrol of the Sudbury River between River Rd. in Wayland and Lee's Bridge at Rt. 117 in Lincoln was an easy one as there was very little trash in the water.  It was nice for a change to have only white water lilies and violet pickerel weed blossoms catch my eye instead of bottles and cans.
The usual gang of wildlife were on hand: belted kingfisher, eastern kingbirds, red-winged blackbirds, tree swallows, a red-tailed hawk, and numerous great blue herons such as the one below who'd just caught a fish...

 My boat wasn't the only one working the river today.  This rig was rounding up water chestnut plants...

 Once full, the plants were transferred into a dump truck at Sherman's Bridge...

 No dump truck was necessary for my paltry catch...

However, it was a lucky number 7 and nice that it was all I could find in a 5-mile section of river.  The lot of it was found on the ground below where one shorefisherman had been perched just downstream of the Route 27 bridge.
My YTD total stands at 3211.