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madkey · Joined: 13 Jun 2011 Posts: 75 Location: Torrington,CT

got down on the housey yesterday and managed to get some nice fish
water temps got to 40.2 deg fish north and south of sunnyside.
fish like the white tube rig with red tails and a solid red tube rig. jigging produced a half a dozen fish but trolling was best. tide was slow and didn't move very fast,incoming worked best for us. all good stuff and only getting warmer (finally)

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

Where was the farthest south you marked and caught fish?

How fast were you trolling and how aggressive were they when they'd hit?

ChaoSki · Joined: 23 Jun 2014 Posts: 169

I didn't notice any Ice late last week or today going over Sikorsky Bridge.

striperswiper · Joined: 28 Apr 2014 Posts: 26

There is still ice around.

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

TurtleKiss (aka Kira), NWDarkcloud (aka Bob) and I launched at Sunnyside, today. The water temperature ranged from 37.4 degrees to 38.8 degrees. We went upriver as far at the north end of Two Mile Island and downriver as far as Sikorsky. I didn't see any ice at all. The fish were scattered all over the place in small schools, mostly downriver. Bob wasn't feeling well and didn't fish much, but Kira and I managed to boat 52 schoolies, although I probably caught only 15 to 20 of them. She also caught the 27 inch lunker. However, she threw an umbrella rig, while I stuck with a single jig. I heard that someone else caught about 200, including 18 in the 25 to 27 inch range.
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Michael · Joined: 28 Jan 2012 Posts: 3823 Location: Bridgeport

From the action you had Phil, how awaken have the stripers become?

Thanks for the report Wink