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

After DirtyDawg10 (aka Derek) and I left the Farmington River, I still felt the need to set a hook on some fish, so I headed straight to Lake Basile. I parked at the end of Lordship Road, attached my kayak cart to El Habañero, loaded up my gear and schlepped everything down the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail to the lake:

When I launched at 1:45 pm, the air was still freaking hot (aka in the mid-90s), the sun was still blazing and there was still only a slight breeze. I started throwing a Bullfrog patterned Zoom Horny Toad over the shallow weeds on the west shore. I got a hit right away and set the hook on a typical little Lake Basile largemouth bass:

Man, that felt good! Very Happy

I continued to throw the Horny Toad over the shallow weeds and got a lot of hits, but most were short strikes on which I didn't even try to set the hook. Small fish kept tearing up the Horny Toad; I hate it when they bite the feet off of it. Evil or Very Mad

It took 17 minutes and a few Horny Toads before I caught another fish, so I switched to a wacky rigged green pumpkin/red flake five inch Senko to increase my hookup rate. For the rest of the day, I nibbled around the clear water in and around the weedbeds, and switched back to the Horny Toad in the heavy weeds and pads. All told, I caught about 30 largemouth bass. Here are 28 of them:

I didn't get photos of a couple that gave me a lapdance before leaping back into the water. Laughing

I was the only person on the water until I got off of it at 5:15 pm. In fact, I saw only one shore fisherman while I was there. I'm glad that I was able to get the catching dozens of largemouth bass thing out of my system. Now, I'm going to focus on catching a big one. Very Happy

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

Great trip on the lake Phil!

DirtyDawg10 · Joined: 27 May 2009 Posts: 2238 Location: Granby, CT

Nice job out there!

Megaman · Joined: 08 Nov 2010 Posts: 85 Location: Central CT

NICE job phil....id also try 10in curly worm and Swimjig + craw trailer
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rxpxtx · Joined: 06 May 2012 Posts: 259

Thats why I keep a couple of sacks of 10 inch power worms (motor oil red fleck.) They are the bomb for changing gears to target some bigger fish when the day is just producing dinks. Not that I haven't landed plenty of fish that were smaller than the worm.
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Megaman · Joined: 08 Nov 2010 Posts: 85 Location: Central CT

zoom ol monsters and yum 10inch curly tails..BUT ive noticed lately the swim jig n craw trailer = DEADLY for bigger fish, and weeds out the smaller guys...problem is baitcasting from a kaYAK..painfull...
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