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Michael · Joined: 28 Jan 2012 Posts: 3823 Location: Bridgeport

Buddy and I took his canoe to Hamburg Cove Thursday and launched around 1pm. High tide for the 95 bridge was scheduled for 3:24pm.

Weather conditions were overcast skies, humid, air temps in the upper 50s, and a 5 to 10 mph wind in various directions.

Before we launched, I took a few casts while waiting for my buddy to get set. Played topwater with a 7cm shad Shallow Shad Rap and got 2 explosions and caught a 1 1/2 pound pickerel.

While on the canoe, we hit the docks and piers before making our way towards the shoreline structure along the current.

I was sticking with a 4cm silver shad Jointed Shad Rap while my buddy stuck mostly with live shiners and worms, cause he was targeting yellows and whites.

I was hitting many fish with the Jointed Shad Rap by doing a slow-steady retrieve. My buddy wasn't getting into much as for fish but was getting into a mess a number of times with casting.

Pickerel up to 1 1/2 pounds and bass in the 10" to 14" 1 1/2 pound range were the active ones around the docks with the Jointed Shad Rap and also hit 1 yellow and 1 bluegill.

Later when we made it to the shoreline structure along the current and no wake zone, I hit a nice one! I felt plenty of hard head shaking and full force pulling! Then as I got it closer I saw what I couldn't tell was either a small pike or nice pickerel jump. Get it to the canoe and my buddy nets it.

New PB 23" 3 1/2 pound chain pickerel!

When I got it to the canoe I saw it had the lure in its mouth and line was sticking out of its mouth! Right as I got it in front of me inside the canoe, the sine snapped but still had the fish and lure.

Also hit 1 bass, 2 dinky yellows, and a 7" pumpkinseed along that area.

Next we went over to a cove where I hit a 1 1/2 pound largemouth and my buddy got into a few yellows.

Last stop was one certain area of the docks that looked interesting.

My buddy was getting lots of hits on his live minnows in there and I had plenty of followers on the Jointed Shad Rap.

Yellows, bluegills, and crappie were the ones in there.

My buddy hit 1 crappie and a number of yellows with the live shiners and had a number of hits. I hit 1 yellow and 1 bluegill with the Jointed Shad Rap and caught 2 crappie, 1 yellow, and 2 bluegills with a 4cm shad Shad Rap RS.

We then headed back to the ramp just after 7pm.

Total was my buddy with a number of yellows, 1 crappie, 2 bass, 1 pickerel, and 1 bluegill. I caught a total of 5 yellows, 3 bluegills, 1 pumpkinseed, 2 crappie, 4 pickerel, and 5 largemouths. Shad was the pattern and they were looking for something small with a rattle that could get down to where they were.

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

I don't remember ever catching a black crappie at Hamburg Cove. Nice! But no white perch, huh? I think that worms work better than shiners in the cove, at least while the water's still cold.
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tiehug20 · Joined: 15 Apr 2012 Posts: 23

Nice pickeral. I love the jointed shad rap. You use the yellow perch color? I find that works wonders on pickeral.

SAP284 · Joined: 07 Jun 2011 Posts: 655 Location: Central, CT

Nice catch!
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Michael · Joined: 28 Jan 2012 Posts: 3823 Location: Bridgeport

Elixir · Joined: 30 May 2011 Posts: 288 Location: Danbury, CT

Thats a beast! Way to gettem!