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Michael · Joined: 28 Jan 2012 Posts: 3823 Location: Bridgeport

Friday I hit the lower tidal Pequonnock again. Arrived at Knowlton Street Park around 3pm to find too many leaves floating around, so I went to a spot on Yellow Mill a buddy told me about.

Never saw anything happen along the Yellow Mill so I ended the evening at Bushwick Metal.

Saw 2 Seaside buddies there. 1 of them said he had a follower and a hit. Both said there were many splashes.

I caught a dinky striper no bigger than 12" with an original pearl shad FLR-10 and had no other hits or followers. Many leaves were floating.

Hit the road around 5:15.

insomnia11 · Joined: 28 May 2013 Posts: 48

hey mike
you should've been there today
based on your thursday report...i decided to try the park access.
last two weeks i've been fishing the river south.. across from the dog track.no luck.
got there at 2pm..left at 4pm
no leaves but water clarity was about 2ft at best.needless to say i wasn't expecting much with the water as "dirty" as it was
there was a lot of splashing and birds diving down by the washington ave bridge
random swirls and smaller splashes up and down the river.i thought it was bunkers
eventually they moved closer to the pier...thats when i saw some keepers
you're right!...it's not just schoolies.there's one or two big bass still in that river.
saw a bunch of BIG tail slaps and the occasional BIG head trying to scoop up the peanut bunkers jumping out the water trying to flee
tried a fresh bunker chunk on one rod and different lures on a second
best i could do was a fat 12" schoolie.. 3" plastic..close to the pier..that was pure luck
the river was too dirty and filled with too much peanut bunker

Michael · Joined: 28 Jan 2012 Posts: 3823 Location: Bridgeport

Had to work