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Fishface · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 308 Location: New Britain

Went out Saturday afternoon, put the Kayak in around 2:00pm fished till 6;30 or so. Fished a bit in the cove where the rivers meet. With no luck. Very heavy vegitation. So I made my way up river and fished every spot that looked like it would hold fish (which there were many) I was using a 1/2oz Pumpkinseed spinnerbait, 5" Senkos Blk/Blu Flake, a coupe other colors that elude me. also a 4" Tube Madigras colored. Was able to land one LMB 17-3/4" on the BLK/Blu senko wacky rigged you can see in the pic the structure I had to pull it from, This fish was strong, I think river fish are much stronger than lake residents. Put a quality effort into the trip. I don't think I made it half way up to the dam, in the 4 plus hours. There is a lot of water to cover. I will be going back because this place holds fish. While I was paddling around I saw a Stripper crusing around lookes to be 24" or so. This is a nice place to paddle nice launching area. All in all a good trip. Met a Husband and wife fishing in there canoe. They were fishing wacky rigged Jersey rigged worms. They look pretty cool. They had a tough trip they had no fish up to when I left.

Tim

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

Nice job Tim! I would have loved to have seen that stripper Very Happy

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

I'm sorry that I missed you on Saturday. I was still dead from Friday's outing.

Did you happen to catch the names of the couple fishing from the canoe? If not, was the canoe green?
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Fishface · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 308 Location: New Britain

No Phil I did not catch there name, Yes the canoe was green with a trolling motor. They said they were from Hamden.