Wednesday, October 26, 2016

A Harried Assabet

The Assabet River provided a little taste of winter yesterday with chilly air accompanied by a blustery breeze.

I launched from Magazu's Landing and soon encountered my first ever "swimming rat" fishing lure minus a tail and no fishing line attached...
Found online, it's a BBZ-1 Rat 50 in "morning dawn" color and (with the tail) goes for just under $30...a keeper as I plan to do some lure-casting next year.  A lure this size should cast a long way.

At the box culvert where Fort Meadow Brook enters the river, head pressure was forcing brook water through the beaver dam within the culvert...
The water upstream of the culvert had ponded to a level even with the culvert's top.

Several trees have fallen across the Assabet recently and are acting as traps for leaves, grass, duckweed, and trash...

One fallen tree limb seemed to be pointing skyward...

Despite the changes in landscape and blustery conditions, a harrier went about its business oblivious to all but the task at hand...
...which allowed me to see its owl-like face...

On the way back to the landing I encountered duck hunters heading upriver.  Though the season officially started two weeks ago, they were the first hunters of that type I've encountered this fall.

The trash haul for the day included 4 more mouthwash bottles (frequently found in this stretch of the Assabet)...

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