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cthonkerheaven · Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Posts: 142

DO NOT waste your time going here unless your trying for small mouth bass, I caught about a dozen bass in the 9-16 inch range, all nice small mouths. The water is very shallow but I have never seen so many small mouths in that river before. I was trying to upload a picture but I will just put in my gallery since I can't do it lol. I got one nice picture of the one of the small mouth I caught....

cthonkerheaven · Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Posts: 142

cthonkerheaven · Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Posts: 142

DV thanks for the posting pictures tips, thats easy Smile

haha

chumley · Joined: 25 Sep 2007 Posts: 210 Location: tolland ct

looks like im gonna waste some time............... Cool

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DirtyDawg10 · Joined: 27 May 2009 Posts: 2238 Location: Granby, CT

Nice smallie!

SeaDog1 · Joined: 21 Dec 2009 Posts: 2629

Hi!

I use to live in East Hampton and fished the Salmon River religiously!
Only a 5 minute ride from where I use to live.

Smallies Question

In the 13 years I lived there, I never caught a Smallie, and I fished the entire lenght of the Salmon.
Hmmmm Question

Wonder if someone did some bucket stocking Question

Nice pic of a good size smallie -> You caught him in the deep hole just under/at the covered bridge off Rt. 16!
Yeah! I can see the concrete retaing wall and the shelf of flat rocks at its base and the riffles that spills into the run that goes under the bridge.
That's a long vertical haul up the wall from the river.

SeaDog1 Very Happy

PECo · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 5203 Location: Avon, CT

Nice detective work, Sherlock Holmes! Very Happy

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DV · Joined: 05 May 2010 Posts: 229 Location: East Windsor

Nice fish CT, I never would have thought to fish for smallies on the Salmon. It has to be my favorite river to fish as it doesn't get near the pressure of the farmington and produces big fish every year.

And seadog, they prolly came up river during the highfloods this year and stuck around.

cthonkerheaven · Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Posts: 142

haha sea dog your right, EXACTLY< its a high up spot, i NEVER fish the wall, its CRAZY trying to catch a fish and get it up the wall BUT I was just scouting and looking down and see tons of fish 6-12 inches off the wall and under the rocks. From the other side its tough to get to these fish because of the angle. So i dropped lined nightcrawlers no weight along the wall and under those 4-5 rocks under the bridge you should see the fish that came flying out from under those rocks. I'm talking 4-5 smallies fighting over my worm at once lol it was fun. I have NEVER caught any smallie's there iether, I caught some under the bridge, some at the rop swing and even some at the first waterfall at the beginning of the fly fishing area. They are EVERYWhere, if i go again im going in the early am or right before sunset so its cooler and more fish will be out.......... IT WAS VERY FUN trying to get the fish up that 12-15 foot wall haha I didn't lose one and IDK how I did it lol just one quick motion

SeaDog1 · Joined: 21 Dec 2009 Posts: 2629

Hi ct!

Next time you fish there -> Go to the other side -> being very carefull -> cross over the up side riffle then down onto the flat shelf rocks.
That way you can fish the deep run alongside the flat shelf rocks all the way to under the covered bridge.

Only in the summer with the water low can you do this. I have done that many times.

SeaDog1 Very Happy

cthonkerheaven · Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Posts: 142

Ive done this early in the season as well, I just follow the wall to the woods, walk down it, then walk the ledge down, although it gets a little slippery Razz

for some reason epople think I'm Jesus walking on water, they don't understand that spot