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DirtyDawg10
Joined: 27 May 2009
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Location: Granby, CT
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 Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 3:08 pm Post subject: Farmington, Curtiss Park 6/30 |
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I decided to head to the Farmington River for some fishing today. I really wanted to fulfill my goal of catching a fallfish. It's been a while since I've landed one and I just couldn't wait to track one down. I launched from Curtiss at about 7:45am. It was beautiful but the full sun was a bit tougher for the fishing.
I started out trolling a Bomber silver square bill crank up river for about a mile to where the river and Rt 10 are feet apart. Got nothing trolling up. From there I started drifting back down river and casting my crankbait into the shade. There are lots of laydowns and plenty of smallies. Unfortunately they are small smallies. I had a few hits but couldn't get the hooks in any fish. I reeled in the crankbait in and switched out the old trebles. On the next cast I landed my first fish which was a decent size fallfish, woohoo!! 
The second fish was a smallie and it was only about 10" long. Unfortunately my camera batteries were dead so I didn't get to take any pics. Not that there were any photo worthy fish caught but the scenery was fantastic!
At about 10:30am Phil (PECo) showed up and we fished from the Rt 315 bridge down to the power lines into the small cove. We got off the water at about 1:15pm. I ended up landing...
9 - smallies
2 - LMB
4 - Fallfish (Yeah Baby!!!)
1 - Sunny
1 - Yellow perch
The bass were all under keeper length. The fallfish were all right around 12" to 14". I didn't measure any fish though so I may have landed a trophy fallfish and not even known about it. All fish were caught on the silver crank with the exception of a couple of smallies that I landed on a 5" wacky senko. Nice day on the water so I can't complain. I already put some extra camera batteries in my tackle bag so my report will have pics next time  |
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NWDarkcloud
Joined: 23 Apr 2012
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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ya looked at the aerial for this are didnt see a pond so your talkin about the dead-end off the river that branchs down and ends up near the park? Is this a carry in place or can you launch a small trailer looks interesting spot and its not far from me aswell
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DirtyDawg10
Joined: 27 May 2009
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Location: Granby, CT
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah...the "cove" I talked about was the dead end branch of the river near the park. We didn't see much in there today except for some small bass and sunnies. It is a carry in place and it's a nice paddle as well. |
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rmflint
Joined: 16 Mar 2012
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Location: Wallingford
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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Glad to hear you got your fall fish. PECo told me you wanted to catch one so its good that you did. I just learned about these fish yesterday for the first time myself so I'll have to try and catch one, one day.
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SAP284
Joined: 07 Jun 2011
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Location: Central, CT
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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Sound like a good day. Fishing can get tough with this hot weather. The minimum length for catch an release is 14" so you could have very well had a trophy! 
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DirtyDawg10
Joined: 27 May 2009
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Location: Granby, CT
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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| The fallfish thing was mostly a joke but I certainly don't mind catching fallfish. The big ones actually fight pretty good. |
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PECo
Joined: 06 Oct 2009
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Location: Avon, CT
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| Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2012 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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I caught only one fish with a wacky rigged green pumpkin/red flake five inch Senko:
I love catching smallies, but this one didn't do much for me.  In fact, I headed straight to Lake Basile after we left the river, because I still felt the need to set a hook on some fish.
Thanks for getting me out of the house, though, Derek!
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Fishin'Fireman
Joined: 15 May 2012
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Location: Simsbury
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| Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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If you're looking for fallfish and want to shore cast, try the crew docks by the drake hill bridge. I head down there often and catch some good size fall fish there. Rock bass as well, havent caught any LM's or SM's from there yet.
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