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Just4fun · Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 1389 Location: Saybrook

Got out for a couple of hours after work yestarday. Fished the flats near the river mouth below the train bridge. Nothing huge,..but I finally managed to find some fish for a change! I quit after catching a dozen,..but definitely could've got more if I'd have stayed longer. Caught most of them on a white houdini, but also had a few with a small rubber eel on a jighead and a white crankbait. Couldn't get them to touch anything on the surface and they were too small for an 8" swimbait that I threw for a while (although they did bump it once or twice). Largest fish was in the low 20's, water temp was 53 and it was the first half of outgoing tide! I saw another handful of fish caught on other boats, but they were all small as well! Cool

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atkins · Joined: 13 Apr 2010 Posts: 220 Location: Manchester

Were you in a boat. Or from shore.

fishinschmoe · Joined: 01 Jan 2010 Posts: 300

Awesome news!!
Cant wait for the line siders!! Makes May worth livin... when not turkey huntin..

SkeeterRon · Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 1173 Location: Newington, CT

It was a nice day Marc.

Were you in the Hobie or Skeeter?
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SkeeterJim · Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 2219 Location: Newington, CT

Just4fun · Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 1389 Location: Saybrook

The temp is fine for the Hobie,..however there was a stiff wind blowing, just below whitecapping level. So it was defintely a Skeeter trip and even in that I was getting bounced pretty good! Cool

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