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

JJay (aka Jason) received a new kayak in the mail on Friday and had to be in New York all weekend, so he was getting anxious to try it out for the first time. We decided to meet at Spring Pond for a quick paddle after he left work. I got on the water at the culvert on the west shore of the south cove in my kayak, El Habañero, at 5:30 pm. There was little to no wind on the pond. I paddled across to the east shore of the south cove and began banging the still slightly flooded shoreline in a counter-clockwise direction with a wacky-rigged green pumpkin/red flake Senko. The Town of Avon has cleared a ton of brush from the woods that border the pond, so it's less wild-looking than it used to be. After 25 minutes, the only hits I got on the Senko were small. I figured they were sunnies or crappies and then I snagged up one of them:

Sunny! I was considering swapping out my wacky-rigged Senko for a crappie tube and bobber when I finally got a bite from a 14 inch largemouth bass:

Jason paddled up at 6:10 pm. He was a litte late because he had a hard time figuring out how to cartop his new, larger kayak, which is a Native Ultimate FX12:

Jason paddled to the west side of the pond and worked his way up the shore with a wacky-rigged Senko and Zoom Horny Toad. He ended up catching a largemouth bass with the Senko near the north island. I caught another 14 incher along the east shore before I started working my way across the north shore. I finally got a decent hit on the Senko and the fish headed underneath my kayak for deeper water, pulling drag as it spun me around. I worried that it was a chain pickerel, but it wasn't:

Whoo hoo! My lunker largemouth bass was 19 inches long and weighed three pounds, seven ounces. I met up with Jason in the middle of the north shore and ended up catching three more largemouth bass, all shorts or close to it, before we headed off of the water at sunset (i.e., 7:58 pm).
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DirtyDawg10 · Joined: 27 May 2009 Posts: 2238 Location: Granby, CT

Nice lunker!

coastieyaker · Joined: 27 Jan 2013 Posts: 282

Nice work Phil, and nice yak JJay.

Where did you order it from?

I got my Native Manta Ray through Appomattox River Company.

JJay · Joined: 23 Sep 2011 Posts: 113 Location: Farmington, CT

Thanks for posting the pics Phil.

Coastieyaker, I ordered with www.ACK.com

Hiya Derek!

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

Nice catch Phil!

Have fun paddling your yak around Jay!

hila2006 · Joined: 22 Jul 2011 Posts: 582 Location: Ellington

Nice job guys, gonna take the yaks out over the weekend, registering our boat in the next couple weeks.

Mase2020 · Joined: 15 Jun 2012 Posts: 228

Nice guys, J-Jay nice to see you have a new fish catching machine to showcase at the tourney.