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pikePERSUADER1 · Joined: 07 Dec 2010 Posts: 521

poaching fish with extra lines is pretty unsportsmanlike if you ask me, i saw those guys keeping a bunch of little pike one day, kind of a bummer, maybe thats why the river doesn't produce alot of giants:(

hila2006 · Joined: 22 Jul 2011 Posts: 582 Location: Ellington

That's exactly why PP, people just don't get it. I wouldn't have reported them either Phil, but maybe once in a while that's what it takes.

snap fisher777 · Joined: 18 Sep 2011 Posts: 238

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

snap fisher777 - The DEEP has a tide table on its website, but you have to do a little bit of calculation, since it shows the time that the high tide hits Old Saybrook, which is at the mouth of the Connecticut River. Here's a link to the table:

http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?a=2686&q=322298&depNav_GID=1620

I'd guesstimate that the high tide hits Keeney Cove about 4 hours and 10 minutes after it hits Old Saybrook.

abe - Welcome to the site. I took photos of the jigs that have been working for me lately. Here's a 1/16 ounce round jighead and a bag of Pearl Silver colored 2-1/2 inch Gulp! Minnows:

I also like the Smelt colored Minnow. Here's a 1/4 ounce shakeyhead jighead with a white four inch curlytail grub:

Any four inch curlytail grub will do and white has definitely been the hot color so far this year. The reason I use a shakeyhead jighead is that they tend to be made with longer hooks than round jigheads are. I usually use a lighter 1/8 ounce shakeyhead jighead in Hamburg Cove, but tied on the heavier 1/4 ounce shakeyhead jighead for the stronger currents in the Connecticut River. And while I was on the Connecticut, today, I considered tying on an even heavier one, because I was fishing downriver from a submerged wall that was creating a lot of turbulence in the water and had trouble getting the jig close to the bottom. I probably fished too far off of the bottom all day, today.
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abe · Joined: 10 Apr 2012 Posts: 25

thank you for the welcome and the help i was down at the cove to day did very well

pikePERSUADER1 · Joined: 07 Dec 2010 Posts: 521

i wouldnt be afraid to spend some extra time near the rt. 3 bridge if I were you, Phil- those shaky heads are great, i use them for all my flipping baits(if i need them to sink faster), very versatile, i like deadsticking craw-like plastics and it keeps the arms up for longer making the bait look like its natural defensive pose!

snap fisher777 · Joined: 18 Sep 2011 Posts: 238

oh okay thank you Phil. I guess that is how you estimated. When I go fishing there I did not know that tides came into the cove because the entrance that brings water through seems narrow.

Scratch59 · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:02 pm Post subject:

Snap, here is another site that has tides for the river really far inland...

http://www.saltwatertides.com/dynamic.dir/connecticutsites.html#river