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mikey5string
Joined: 09 May 2012
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Location: West Haven
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 Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 2:01 pm Post subject: Saltonstall 9.8 |
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After a few dead weeks I finally caught some decent fish at Saltonstall today.
Seems like the bass are transitioning from shallow cover close to shore to weed flats and points. Good amount of surface activity as they crush alewife on the surface.
I got the majority of my fish on a white fluke fished over submerged weed flats. The biggest was 2.3lbs which isnt big for the lake but it is bigger than what I got in the last few weeks. I got arounf 6 between 1.5 and 2.3 and a few dinks.
The bite was hot in the morning until about 8, then they stopped hitting the flukes. I switched to a rage craw on a pegged t-rig and picked up a few more. The fish hit that craw HARD. I was crawling it on the bottom quickly, almost swimming it.
I got one on a spinnerbait along a dying weed edge. All the shallow hydrilla is dead/dying and looks devoid of life. The key is the submerged green grass.
On monday I got a few on a Red Eyed Shad lipless crankbait. I also lost several. I wasnt using my crankbait rod, I had switched it this summer because I wasnt throwing them. A med/heavy rod will rip the bait out of he fishes mouth, which is what I think was happening.
Glad to see that the fishing is improving. Looks like a tactical change was in order.
PS
Anyone know who makes a decent bladed jig? The Z Man "original" chatterbaits are hot garbage. |
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PECo
Joined: 06 Oct 2009
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Location: Avon, CT
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| Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 4:13 pm Post subject: Re: Saltonstall 9.8 |
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| mikey5string wrote: | | Glad to see that the fishing is improving. |
I've noticed that, too. I've been getting decent numbers of mostly smaller fish, lately. Hopefully, we'll have a lengthy Fall season.
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mikey5string
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| Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 9:08 pm Post subject: |
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The big fish are biting as well, I just didnt manage to get any. Another boat got a few 4's and a 5.
The whole lake is different from July and early August. The water level is down, 90% of the hydrilla on the surface died off leaving wispy, dead brown stalks and the water turned from clear to almost neon green.
That hydrilla and other vegetation close to shore was an easy place to pick off big bass. A frog, a jig, t-rigged plastics....
Now you've got to find them chasing alewife on the flats or in pockets of submerged weeds.
Its nice to have to change tactics sometimes. |
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Michael
Joined: 28 Jan 2012
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Location: Bridgeport
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| Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| mikey5string wrote: | That hydrilla and other vegetation close to shore was an easy place to pick off big bass. A frog, a jig, t-rigged plastics....
Now you've got to find them chasing alewife on the flats or in pockets of submerged weeds.
Its nice to have to change tactics sometimes. |
Last year a buddy I used to have took me to Saltonstall a few times in September into early October. We concentrated on the northern part of the lake and the weeds on the eastern shore. I was hitting the bass, yellows, and whites like crazy with Rapalas such as Jointed Shad Rap, Shallow Shad Rap, Shad Rap RS, and Minnow Rap. Casted right onto the edge of the weeds and within a few cranks fish on. |
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