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mustang11
Joined: 14 Jun 2009
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Location: Deep River, CT
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 Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:47 pm Post subject: CT River 4/21 - Tagged Fish |
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Headed out around 5am to fish the incoming tide. Air temperature was 55 degrees and there was heavy fog and light drizzle.
Started fishing the mouth of the river at slack tide with bunker and kept at it for an hour or two with no luck so we headed north and ended up picking up a few schoolies, all by trolling tubes in the up-river direction.
One of them was caught right under the 95 highway bridge on a red/black tube. That fish had a Hudson River Foundation tag on it that I'll be sending back to them. They say they will send information on when and where the fish was tagged so it will be interesting to see when it was tagged in the Hudson.
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Elixir
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds pretty damn cool!  |
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Michael
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Let us know what you find out from them! |
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Wanna Fish
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| Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Elixir wrote: | | Sounds pretty damn cool! |
Really cool!
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mustang11
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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It is the first tagged fish I've ever caught so it is exciting, and the information will be great to know.
I'm going to mail it in Monday and it may take some time to get a response from the HRF, but when I do I will certainly post a response with what I learn.
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madkey
Joined: 13 Jun 2011
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Location: Torrington,CT
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:29 pm Post subject: tagged fish |
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I caught a tagged fish in the Thames one winter and sent it in.
turns out it was tagged 2 yrs before in new jersey. Pretty cool
Rich
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Just4fun
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| Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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Nice job and glad to hear that you are following through and sending the tag back!!
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DirtyDawg10
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Location: Granby, CT
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:02 am Post subject: |
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I caught a tagged cod a few years back. Unfortunately I didn't get to pull the tag before the first mate filleted the fish and threw the tag overboard  I was bummed about that one. |
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mustang11
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:50 am Post subject: |
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I almost missed seeing the tag. It has collected a little plant material on it and since the fish was not a keeper I was going to put it back without cleaning it off. The first thing I saw was a little spot of bright yellow with the words "cut here" on it.
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PECo
Joined: 06 Oct 2009
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Location: Avon, CT
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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Cabela's' 2012 tagged fish contest starts on May 5. I've already signed up. Hey, it could happen. . . . 
http://www.cabelas.com/browse.cmd?categoryId=107520480
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TurtleKiss
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Phil. I hope they include a waterbody in central CT other than the river this year.
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madkey
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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Phil you're right,You never know
I'm gonna sign up
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mustang11
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you for the reminder. I signed up last year might as well keep trying
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Fishing Addict
Joined: 22 Apr 2012
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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signed up too for the first time ever. I think they anounce the waters on May 1st though!
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DirtyDawg10
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| Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:52 am Post subject: |
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Actually I was wrong...It was a haddock that I caught with a tag in it...you can see the 2 green tags just beside the dorsal fin.
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