"George Adams" wrote in
oups.com:

True enough. When the fish there are keyed in on a hatch, even a
canoe floating directly over them only puts them down for a minute
or so. A bird flying low over the water will spook them, but not
for long. They are simply too used to people being around, thus
the success of the technique you described. If that is the same
lady I think it was, she caught a 23" brown in there about a month
ago.


Apart from pellet hatches and the clustered folks around the outflow
pipe, do you think the hatchery has a detrimental effect on the river
from, especially from a polluation standpoint? It is pretty sterile as
I am sure the Quabbin is basically dead at this stage. Does that
account for these small hatches?