[slim2043]

I met Jason aka JJay and Phil aka PECo at Spring Pond Thursday morning for some paddling and fishing. The air temps were nice in the 60s but the water temp was still in the low 40s and the winds were whipping from the South. The three of us managed no fish among us until Phil took us out to lunch for sushi.

Thanks, Phil!

Nice to meet you Jason.

Let's go fishing (and catching) again soon.
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[PECo]

Jason and I arrived at Spring Pond about an hour before Tim. We were on the water from 8:45 am to 1:30 pm. Although Jason and I enjoyed a light five mile per hour south wind for the first hour or so, it quickly rose throughout the day, until it was blowing out of the southwest at 15 to 20 miles per hour, with gusts even higher than that. I pedaled The Other Woman, so I had it easy compared to Jason and Tim, who were blown around quite a bit:




The water temperature was 42.2 degrees when we launched and rose to 44.2 degrees when we left. It's pretty murky in there right now, with visibility down to only a foot. I marked several fish on my finder, but wasn't able to coax a bite out of them. I threw a suspending, rattling Husky Jerk, a perch patterned crankbait, a wacky rigged 3 inch watermelon Senko and a crappie rig baited with leftover waxworms from ice fishing. I was especially surprised that I couldn't get a bite on the waxworms from what I think were probably panfish suspending over a laydown only a few feet down. Hopefully, the heavy flooding that we had at the end of last year hasn't killed the fishing there. I plan to keep checking on it as the water warms up.
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[slim2043]

Phil, isn't that the other woman? I'm pretty sure habanero is orange

I threw a Fat Albert Grub, a Finesse Jig and a jerkbait. It was too windy to try and tie any other stuff on and risk getting blown into a tree or a rock or something. I caugt a few trees with each bait both submerged and on the land.

If the weather keeps up, I'll be out again very soon.
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[PECo]

Oops, you"re right, Tim, I pedaled The Other Woman. I hope that she doesn't get pissed off at me.
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[JJay]

No fish at the lake, but plenty at lunch with great company!
Thanks Phil and Tim.

by the way, it's the orange shoes that made UCONN lose!