[Paulgottafish]

This is my second post, so I believe I cannot post pictures yet. Anyway, as has been my routine this summer, I was up and out at 5:30am and decided to give Keeney Cove a shot, since I had not been there since last fall. Pulled onto point road, and there were a few of the regulars setting up on the bridge already, getting their minnows and bobbers ready to go. I slid my canoe in the north side of the bridge, into the strong incoming tide. Water level is at what I would say is normal this time of year, and quite murky. I had my usual four setups, two poles with 20lb braid, two with 20lb mono, a drop shot lizard, zoom horney toad, green senko, and my favorite oversized black spinner bait with silver willow leaf blades and a mister twister black curly tail on the hook. This way I can pretty easily work an area literally from top to bottom. Started on the west side, heading towards the tunnel under route 3, with the spinnerbait. On the the third cast, I hit a 14'' lmb in about 2 feet of water against some heavy lilly pads. Nothing else for the next 10 casts, so I threw the lizard into the deeper channel, and as I worked it back in bouncing off the bottem, got a nice hit, missed it, and pulled back in half a lizard! Must have been a Pike. Paddled through the tunnel, and picked up another 13'' lmb on the other side, on the senko, up against the rocks. Put a new lizard on, but nothing doing. Switched to the topwater, and the first cast pulling the frog through the salad on my left, got a savage hit from what turned out to be a 17'' Pike. Continued with the frog, and had at least 10 hits along that side of the cove. I landed 5 pike total, all between 15 and 22". Nothing big, but a lot of fun watching them torpedo after the bait. One actually launched itself at least 2 feet into the air! (but missed the frog) Went through 3 frogs, all torn up... Picked up 3 more bass, between 12 & 15'' 2 on the frog, one on the spinnerbait in the channel. Headed home at 9am. I'm certain that place holds bigger fish, maybe when it gets a little cooler, or I'd like to try it under cloudy skies or a little rain, seems like every weekend has been with bright blue skys. Great for the beach, but seems to drive the fish down. I'll probably try the Mettabasset tomorrow, same setups, for pike and bass, heard they are running a bit larger there recently.

[snap fisher777]

I went today. I used a weight and some scup hooks because they look like panfish hooks but stronger and I caught uite a few bluegill and a 12 inch snapping turtle. It was a fun day!

[PECo]

I fished the Connecticut River up in South Windsor and the lower Farmington River up to Barts with DirtyDawg10 (aka Derek) and mep21 (aka Mark), yesterday. The fishing was s - l - o - w. We probably would have been better off fishing a cove somewhere. Thanks for the report, Paul.
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[pikePERSUADER1]

Ive never seen that many pike back there, you sure they werent pickerel?

[Paulgottafish]

They were Pike for sure, just kinda laying in the shallow water in the weeds off of the main channel, if you want to call it that. Same thing in the Mettabassett the other day, small Pike hiding in the shallow water weeds off of the river channel. The bass were in the edges of the reeds. I tried the main channel for quite a while for larger Pike but didn't get a single hit. I gotta figure out where the monsters are hanging out!

[pikePERSUADER1]

I have seen only a few big pike in Keeney, its not my favorite place to pike fish, I love the bass fishing in there tho