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2006 Angler of the Year, Joe Baker of Lowell with Director Wayne MacCallum Angler of the Year Award Winners

Beginning in 2003, the Division of Fisheries & Wildlife has recognized the angler who weighed in the most species which qualified for the Freshwater Sportfishing Awards Program for the previous calendar year. This is being done in part to promote the awareness of some of the Commonwealth's underutilized species and to recognize an angler's ability to catch a wide variety of trophy species.

Some anglers become specialists, studying the habits of specific species and learning how to target them, while others become generalists seeking out all the species that the state's waters have to offer. This award is also a way to recognize that the motivations for angling are as diverse as the anglers themselves!

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YEAR AND WINNING ANGLER SPECIES & WATERBODY
*Gold Pin fish
2006--Joe Baker, Lowell
  • *Bullhead, Plugs Pond, Haverhill;
  • Carp, Merrimack River, Methuen;
  • Chain pickerel, Laurel Lake, Lee;
  • Channel catfish,Connecticut River, Springfield;
  • Crappie (2)Oldham Pond, Pembroke and Concord River, Billerica;
  • Landlocked salmon, Quinapoxet River,West Boylston;
  • Smallmouth bass, Long Pond,Harwich;
  • Sunfish (2), Concord River, Billerica;
  • Tiger trout, Peter's Pond, Sandwich;
  • White catfish (2), Charles River, Cambridge;
  • Yellow perch at Pond Street Pond, Dunstable
2005--Todd Matera, Palmer
  • Chain pickerel in Long Pond, Yarmouth;
  • Channel catfish and Walleye in the Connecticut River;
  • Largemouth bass at Garrett's Pond, Barnstable and Quabbin Reservoir;
  • Smallmouth bass at Quabbin Reservoir;
  • Sunfish at Ludlow's Red Bridge Impoundment on the Chicopee River;
  • White perch at Quabbin Reservoir
  • Yellow perch at Spectacle Pond, Sandwich and Rocky Pond, Plymouth.
2004--Roy Leyva, Hyde Park
  • Broodstock salmon, Brook trout from Peters Pond, Sandwich;
  • Brown trout, Smallmouth bass*, Sheep Pond, Brewster;
  • Bullhead, Snipatuit Pond, Rochester;
  • Carp, Neponset Reservoir, Milton;
  • Chain pickerel, White perch, Harwich Reservoir, Harwich;
  • Channel Catfish, White Catfish, Charles River, Cambridge;
  • Landlocked salmon, Wachusett Reservoir;
  • Largemouth bass*, Little Cliff Pond, Brewster;
  • Rainbow trout, Walden Pond, Concord;
  • American Shad, Indian Head River, Pembroke;
  • Sunfish, Concord River;
  • Yellow perch, Bakers Pond, Orleans
2003--Scott Osmond, Lowell
  • Carp, Channel catfish, American shad, Sunfish from Merrimack River, Lowell;
  • Brook trout, Rainbow trout from Deerfield River, Deerfield;
  • Walleye, Connecticut River;
  • Chain pickerel, Nashua River, Groton;
  • White catfish, Concord River, Concord;
  • Broodstock salmon, Jamaica Pond, Boston;
  • Bullhead, Attitash Lake, Amesbury;
  • Black crappie, Smallmouth Bass, White perch, Quabbin Reservoir;
  • Yellow perch, Spot Pond, Stoneham
2002--Roger Pyzocha, Ludlow
  • Crappie, Smallmouth bass, Landlocked salmon, White perch from Quabbin Reservoir;
  • Carp from Connecticut River
*Gold Pin fish

 

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Date Last Updated: February 12, 2007

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