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atkins
Joined: 13 Apr 2010
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Location: Manchester
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 Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:46 am Post subject: Mansfield Hollow, north 6-21-11 |
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5 LMB, 2 on wacky flick it jig, green chart tipped senko, 3 on watermeleon, goldflake cut tail worm on a 1/40z jobee hook (pretty much a texas rigged)
The biggest was 1.5 lbs, coming on the senko
1 pickerel on the cut tail
Fished Mansfield Hollow, north side, yesterday, went counter clockwise for the first time this year.
Caught my first fish using a low profile bait caster, (all they that came on the cut tail) Im not used to using a reel so compact and that fast, 6.5-1, little fish feel much bigger then they are. I havent texas rigged in a while, worked well, glad to have a new option to turn too. The jobee hooks are nice, Dont know if you can get them anymore, but owner makes a bullet off shank jig. |
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PIKEKILLER1
Joined: 25 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2011 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Are you fishing for pike or bass??? |
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Flipper
Joined: 21 May 2010
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Location: Enfield
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:01 am Post subject: |
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Woah, PikeKIller - that's a big fish in your avatar. I'm looking for that one to go on my wall. Care to tell us about it? When, Where, How big was it, etc. Nice fish! I thought mine was big 
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jomonkey527
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:08 am Post subject: |
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| I plan on possibly fishing Mansfield over July 4th weekend. I would ove to catch a pike up there. Any Mansfield tips would be great. The whole upper/lower thing has me wondering. |
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atkins
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:59 am Post subject: |
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PikeKiller, I was fishing for bass,
JoMonkey, Its a great lake. The upper and lower are whole different experiences. Upper is more wide open, lower is sprawling with lots of coves. Ive always done better in the north end. As of last I saw the water is low enough for any boater to go through the bassets bridge culvert, if you using a canoe or kayak it doesnt matter you can launch a paddle craft on either side.
I would suggest using watermelon color softplastics in the hollow, its pretty murky. Wacky rigging has almost always worked for me there, shallow crank baits too.
Ive only caught two pike there, in my life for that matter, both came on ripping crankbaits. one was lipless, one was a rapala DT 6. Id go with bright/perch pattern. Both were also caught with the attention of catching a pike too. One guy told me walking a zara spook is good for them too.
The DEP hasnt been stocking it lately, but people have been catching em, CTOutfitters latest report suggested live lining shiners. |
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Flipper
Joined: 21 May 2010
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| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:51 am Post subject: |
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My personal experience is that place is really hard to catch pike. I don't know if the numbers are low or what, but I have spent a lot of time looking for them on that lake without success. Go to Bantam. Much better pike lake.
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atkins
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| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 8:55 am Post subject: |
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| One lake I need to try out. Bass gotta be big too with the pike clearing out the dinks. |
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jomonkey527
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| Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 6:44 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the advice. And yes I need to fish Bantam too. Ive only gone there to just paddle. |
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PIKEKILLER1
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| Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Flipper wrote: | | Woah, PikeKIller - that's a big fish in your avatar. I'm looking for that one to go on my wall. Care to tell us about it? When, Where, How big was it, etc. Nice fish! I thought mine was big |
If you think that one is big. I got alot bigger.  |
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