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SkeeterJim
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Next spring I will find out when I go there in my Hobie!! 
Jim
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PECo
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Location: Avon, CT
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 8:41 am Post subject: The Upper Cove |
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I should have taken a photo when I was back there yesterday. As you pass through the culvert, it opens up into a huge area. I wasn't expecting that at all.
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live bait
Joined: 12 Apr 2010
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i dont think many people make it back there..would proably be awesome at night but a little scary you never know about that water or whats in it  |
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DirtyDawg10
Joined: 27 May 2009
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Location: Granby, CT
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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| lol...it does kind of make you think of the Louisiana bayou back there. If it was a warmer climate up here there would definitely be some big gators swimming in there. |
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SkeeterJim
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Screw the scary at night, it's scary during the daytime there with some of the characters I've seen hanging out there. Always makes me wonder if I'll come back to my car with broken windows or whatnot. 
Jim
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PECo
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 3:37 pm Post subject: LOL! |
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I met an older guy with a white beard who was sitting on a lawn chair by the garbage barrel next to the boat launch ramp down to the lower cove. He said that he's a local, and told me that there are big northern pike and largemouth bass in the middle and upper ponds. He appeared to be a local celebrity. Many of the people who drove by stopped to say "Hi!" to him. I think he just hangs out and keeps an eye on things during the day.
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Nickp
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| Its safe during the day, it gets locked up at night. Theres piles of 2-4lb bass back there, flipping and pitching the miles of matted grass works and so does pitching to all the shallow tree trunks when the water floods, its real cool looking back there. Used to go 150ft back into the woods with the old g3, fun times. |
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steven1smith
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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I remember going to Keeney last year in early september. We met some locals at the launch area, they seemed very friendly. They had went to white oaks in their canoes, and brought back a bunch of crappie, including the biggest crappie I have ever seen, it was at least 17" long and probably close to 2.5lbs. We didn't have that kind of luck in Keeney unfortunately, we only got the skunk  . But the place looks like it is really out of the way, which means it could hold alot of fish.
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TurtleKiss
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Location: central CT
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| SkeeterJim wrote: | Screw the scary at night, it's scary during the daytime there with some of the characters I've seen hanging out there. Always makes me wonder if I'll come back to my car with broken windows or whatnot.
Jim |
Ditto. The water isn't what's scary - it's launching/returning to your vehicle that I have the problem with.
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Johnny Skeeter
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| Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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too many pike in there....and i wouldnt leave my car parked there either....
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Bass Addict
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Location: Wethersfield, CT 06109
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| Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2010 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| steven1smith wrote: | | I remember going to Keeney last year in early september. We met some locals at the launch area, they seemed very friendly. They had went to white oaks in their canoes, and brought back a bunch of crappie, including the biggest crappie I have ever seen, it was at least 17" long and probably close to 2.5lbs. We didn't have that kind of luck in Keeney unfortunately, we only got the skunk . But the place looks like it is really out of the way, which means it could hold alot of fish. |
Keeney always seems like it is on fire or it is shutoff. Tide and water level really impact the fishing conditions there. When the river is flooded, keeney cove can be very productive.
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