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Michael
Joined: 28 Jan 2012
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Location: Bridgeport
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 Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 12:47 pm Post subject: Squantz Smallies |
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Buddy Harvey, Captain Mike, and I hit Squantz Saturday evening. Harvey and Mike were targeting walleyes from the beach with live alewives while I walked around with a few lures. We arrived at the beach around 4:30pm.
As Mike and Harvey waited for something to happen with their live alewives, I casted a shad Shallow Shad Rap SSR-7 from the beach but hit bottom most of the time. I also tried throwing a live alewife and lost a smallmouth in front of me.
Later I made my way over to the point by the cove where nothing happened. Saw Harvey land a smallmouth on an alewife.
I then went over to the pier and casted with the SSR-7. Caught a smallmouth about 11" there. Then I walked up onto the pier and threw my trusty silver shad Jointed Shad Rap JSR-4 out there. Caught 2 more smallmouths with 1 being around a pound. That one gave me a fight like a 3 pound largemouth.
Had a hit that seemed to be a trout. Saw another fisherman on the rocks to the left of the pier casting out with a Gulp Minnow and carefully twitching it on the bottom. He was getting many hits.
Once sunset arrived, the smallie bite died. I walked back over to the beach to join Harvey and Mike.
Harvey and Mike hadn't gotten any hits while I was at the cove.
I ate and took it easy while Harvey and Mike still had the bait out. We stayed til 10pm. Mike had 2 hits before we left. One of them seemed to be a brown because of the damage done to the alewife. The other took the bait.
So just like January, the Rapala Shad Rap lineup outdoes the alewife! |
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DirtyDawg10
Joined: 27 May 2009
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Location: Granby, CT
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:21 am Post subject: |
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| Nice smallie. |
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rvolkers
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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| nice!!!! |
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chumslick rick
Joined: 04 Jan 2013
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| i also love to bass fish with a rapala SSR-7.. i have caught some largemouth bass up to 6 lbs on the perch colored one...i love rapalas but the rapala DT series are pieces of crap though..they break where the bill connects to the balsa wood body |
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Michael
Joined: 28 Jan 2012
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| Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| chumslick rick wrote: | | i also love to bass fish with a rapala SSR-7.. i have caught some largemouth bass up to 6 lbs on the perch colored one...i love rapalas but the rapala DT series are pieces of crap though..they break where the bill connects to the balsa wood body |
The Rapala SSR-7 has always been my most reliable freshwater lure ever since I first got into serious freshwater fishing. Many of my biggest catches and some PB's have come on the SSR-7.
March 2009 6 1/2 pound largemouth on SSR-7
Opening Day 2010 at Ball Pond PB 3.8 pound rainbow on SSR-7 SD
April 2007 PB 8 pound largemouth on SSR-7 P Girth was 20.5"
April 2010 PB 1.2 pound brookie on the Pequonnock with SSR-7 SD
March 2006 6 1/2 pound largemouth on SSR-7 P
August 2009 Original PB 3 pound pickerel at Twin Brooks Park with SSR-7 SH
The SSR-9 comes in handy when I'm surf fishing and smaller fish are around and I'm using a ML setup. Have caught tons of schoolies, taylors, fluke, and sea robins with it. |
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