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bowhunter095 · Joined: 20 Jan 2011 Posts: 392 Location: Berlin, CT

Anyone have any reports from Derby Dam?

bzsports4 · Joined: 17 Apr 2012 Posts: 19

I have not personally fished there this year, but everytime i drive by there are tons of people.

SheltonTom · Joined: 16 Apr 2011 Posts: 96

I'm heading there this afternoon. Hopefully I'll have a pic to post.

fishfinder · Joined: 19 Jun 2011 Posts: 1672 Location: Naugatuck, Ct.

Went there from 3:30 until 8:30 yesterday on the Shelton side and only got 3 hits all day and one of them was from a Shad which O know this as I saw it happen right in front of me about 12" from shore. I didnt see anyone bring anything in and they even opened up so the water was running good. Ive been going there at like 4 in the morning before work also with nothing to show either. I did have a very nice keeper on the other morn for about 4 seconds but I was way up on the rocks, lost my balance when it hit and never got to set the hook very well. Very slow still but some caught here and there. Caught and released a 32" and a 26" 3 Friday or Saturadays ago late night fishing, cant remember which it was now.
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bowhunter095 · Joined: 20 Jan 2011 Posts: 392 Location: Berlin, CT

So over all its been slow?

asianfisher · Joined: 12 Jan 2009 Posts: 920

headed down there right now... figure i will check it out on my B-day since im facing 5 years Tuesday morning... sucky it is what it is....

fishfinder · Joined: 19 Jun 2011 Posts: 1672 Location: Naugatuck, Ct.

5 years what, prison? Went down to the dam gain today for about 2 hours, nothing again and the wind was brutal!! I was not dressed for this today and split after that 2 hours, it probably got better right when I left as the sun was just starting to set and they had just opened the gates to increase the flow. With that damn wind though I was freezing! So freakin tired of all this wind~!!!!! The last few times Ive gone fishin I keep forgetting sunscreen and its really starting to show and now feel! The only thing Ive sen caught all weekend in the approx 13 hours there was a decent carp today that a guy next to me snagged through the side with a swimmer!! It was his first time fishing there with braid and lost 2 big lures on the cast. I snagged 1 for him with a cast and another guy downstream retrieved another and then I showed him how to tie braid as he was just tying it like his shoelaces!
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asianfisher · Joined: 12 Jan 2009 Posts: 920

Yeah prison. anyways was a shitty time out there today didnt see one thing one line for anyone. WTF imma try q-bridge area once before i turn myself in... Imma try to fight it and be out for salmon or steelhead season... But until than imma be on the inside cause i can bail out... not no ones business so whatever and it is what it is... no worries.. just keep catching and posting....

JustinSolak · Joined: 17 Jul 2011 Posts: 245 Location: East Hartford, CT

asian: best of luck to you on gettin out asap
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fishfinder · Joined: 19 Jun 2011 Posts: 1672 Location: Naugatuck, Ct.

Been there asian more times then I care to speak of!!! Straightened my own arse out finally though many years ago thank goodness. I was not a good boy when I was younger!
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There's a fine line between fishing....

and standing on the shore like an idiot!