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atkins
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 Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:46 am Post subject: Bolton notch |
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| Anybody every try bolton notch pond, hitting it up after work, by june its choked with weeds, and is lower bolton ice free yet? |
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TurtleKiss
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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I asked the same question last year and everyone told me to not waste my time with Bolton Notch. I haven't gone. The Bolton lakes are almost completely melted and very fishable.
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steven1smith
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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I was at bolton on sunday. Lower was 95% ice free and Middle was about 80%. Let us know how you do at bolton notch.
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Lunker Cove
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| everybody always told me i was wasting my time throwing frogs at upper bolton til i nailed my first fish on a frog, which happened to be the biggest pickeral i have ever seen. You never know till you try it. How is upper bolton during this time of the year? |
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billybass
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Fish middle and lower Bolton a lot more than most cause there close to me both are very productive for bass and cats and pickeral always catch somthing so far the best was a 4.2 smallie 100 ft off lanch against right side near spill way threw the ice...and open water between 1 to 3.5 pnds bass all day,,but i would not even go in the notch i heard it freezes solid to ground its very shallow in some spot,,,,pretty much a mud hole ,,but good luck....ive caught some little stuff at upper lake casting off the rd |
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TurtleKiss
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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Upper looks bassy but I've never had any luck there. Middle has been decent close to the launch. Lower is hit or miss.
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metalfish
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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I have tryed middle and lower, so far nothing. But they both look really good for bass. I aint givin up on this place. The notch had a fish kill and is very shallow. Upper looks about the same. But I think the fish swim the culvert there.
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PECo
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:14 am Post subject: |
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I don't know how big that culvert is, but whenever I paddle through the big double culvert that runs underneath Route 3 between middle and upper Keeney Cove, my finder marks fish on the bottom, underneath all of the crap that's in there.
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billybass
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:44 am Post subject: |
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| The culvert at Bolton is nothing like that....way smaller |
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atkins
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:12 am Post subject: |
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I wanted to give it ( bolton notch) a shot, im familar with lower bolton. I think the ice killed everything in bolton notch. Hundreds of dead blue gills floating, though saw a pair of wood ducks and a ferret.
I got some decent bass in lower through the ice this year. |
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PECo
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:14 pm Post subject: LOL! |
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It was probably an American mink and not a ferret.
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SeaDog1
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Hi!
I tend to agree with you Phil -> Ferrets are more a dry area animal where as minks will definetly be found near water.
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billybass
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya atkins, I did real well there on the ice also..That place is just a good close productive body,,,,,,,But it is the worst yet for me for wind...... |
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PECo
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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A Fisheries Guide to Lakes and Ponds of Connecticut says that the fishing at Bolton Notch Pond, "Is reportedly fair for largemouth bass, yellow perch and sunfish." The bathymetric map shows that it has a maximum depth of only six feet in two places; near the launch area and on the south end.
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atkins
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| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2011 11:59 am Post subject: |
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yeah Peco, read that, think its become out dated now  , its only like 2 feet now, must have filled in, probaly froze solid, thanks about the mink, only rarely see those critters |
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