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Mase2020
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 Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:23 am Post subject: CTR Enfield |
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| Went to the CT River in Enfield on Monday 6/16. The flow was about 20,000 CFS which is about as fast as I will go because your are fighting current to stay on a spot more than fishing. So I headed to the Suffield side and the water was murky. Fished for a bit and caught six bass all on Senkos and 1 on a crank bait. Only fished for a few hours and stayed north of the launch on the Suffield |
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anointed130
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Location: Hartford,Ct\Springfield, MA
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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did you notice it was smelling bad with lots of dead river herring\shad?
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RDG
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Location: Western, MA
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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Fished the CTR river in MA (Holyoke/Chicopee area) and there was a ton of dead shad/hearing. Water levels have dropped and water temp has gone up. Usually signifies the end of the striper run.  |
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Mase2020
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2014 9:36 am Post subject: |
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| anointed130 wrote: | | did you notice it was smelling bad with lots of dead river herring\shad? |
Didn't notice the smell, but there were a lot of dead Shad which is nothing unusual for this time of year. |
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Rivernut
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2014 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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That's a good thing. Lots of dead shad means there were lots of live shad. We used to pass on the order of a half-million or more at the Holyoke Dam back in the 1980's when I worked there. Then they dropped to a small fraction of that. The dead-ends of the Holyoke canals would have many thousands of dead bloating shad. Only about 1/3 survive the whole spawning ordeal. Great prey for bass.
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