CTFishTalk.com: Silver Lake, 6/4/09 - Connecticut Lake Reports ( CT Lake Reports ) - A Community Built for Connecticut Fisherman.

BassGetHooked · Joined: 29 May 2009 Posts: 200 Location: Berlin, CT

OK Gents. Here I go my first report. I'm a bit embarassed to admit this but I got skunked!

Hit Silver Lake on a canoe with a buddy of mine. Only had about an hour and a half on the water. Hit up some of our usual spots, a few coves and beds. No action. The entire lake seemed to be run over with thick weeds that came all the way to the surface.

The water was dark and cool, I didn't have a thermometer but I'd guess the water temp couldn't have been above 60. There was a strong wind blowing across the lake coming from the highway and blowing towards the boat launch.

There were some fellow fisherman from both the shore and several others on boats and canoes. From our brief convos with them they weren't having any luck either.

I was switching lures up trying to find something the bass (or even pickeral) would hit. I was using chartruse spinnerbaits, chartruse/bloodred spinnerbaits, a livebait lookalike (babybass) lure (not sure the brand). Also threw out a Yamamoto worm rigged with a jig head with a wireguarded hook. Even that picked up the weeds! THrew out a double hooked rig (weedless) with an imitation nightcrawler. This was the most effective weedless rig I used but it still didnt' attract a hit.

My friend wasn't having any better luck. He stuck with mostly chartruse mini-spinnerbaits from what I saw. We were just about to leave when he said "Man, What happened to this place? It's all weeds. This place sucks" As he said "sucks" he hooked into our only fish on the same mini-whacker. Looked like it was giving him a good fight, but it was only a Johnny Roach. Decent size I guess.

Hopefully my next outing will prove to be a bit better, but even a bad day fishing beats a good day at work!
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pdcrack · Joined: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 727 Location: Wethersfield CT

man thats tough....only been to silver twice, but had good luck both times i would say. My first bass of this year came from there with Djmon which went ~3.5lbs on a jig. The second time I picked up around 15 fish in 2 hours between me and a buddy using mainly xraps, jerkbaits, and senkos.

All in all tough luck man, prolly just a bad day. Gl next time and thanks for the post.
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BoSox46GSR · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 388 Location: Chester

No worries. It happens to the best of us occasionally! You'll get 'em next time!
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Phish · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 454 Location: West Hartford

Thanks for the report. Keep them coming. Better luck next trip.

slimecoat · Joined: 09 Nov 2007 Posts: 1576 Location: Newington, CT.

Good report, don't get discouraged, plenty of us can go out and get skunked now and then. Next time out try throwing a senko, either wacky rigged weightless or texas rigged with a 1/16 ounce bullet worm weight at the nose. You can also try throwing a black neon tube with the same weight at the head. But you need to start throwing a 3/8 or 1/2 ounce jig, a jig is a big fish magnet.

Hope this helps.......
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BassGetHooked · Joined: 29 May 2009 Posts: 200 Location: Berlin, CT

Forgot to post time of day. Fished between 5pm-6:30pm. Thanks for the replies and the advice. I don't often go skunked, but I'll be sure to try throwing some senkos and a jig or two.
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BoSox46GSR · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 388 Location: Chester

heavyweight80 · Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Posts: 227 Location: New Britain,CT

Getting skunked is like 2nd nature for me. I went 3 months before catching anything this year. I have however caught a nice tan
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SkeeterJim · Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 2219 Location: Newington, CT

Good first report. I've done good there most of the time but like Slimey said give yourself some more time to figure out the pattern next time.
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BoSox46GSR · Joined: 29 Mar 2009 Posts: 388 Location: Chester

SkeeterJim · Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 2219 Location: Newington, CT

Ooops! Sorry BoSox my bad! Embarassed

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