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jellyfish12
Joined: 05 Jul 2011
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Location: Canton CT
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 Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:12 am Post subject: CT River great Island & Hamburg Cove |
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We launched at the Baldwin Bridge ramp at 1:30pm in the CT River and fished around Great Island (notta) and than motored up to Hamburg Cove to finish out the day. Water temp was around 60 degrees in the cove, cloudy SW 10-15 wind. In about 5 hours and 1,000 casts with topwaters, sluggos and bunker chunk combined, we stuck 2 stripers in the cove on a couple topwater custom lures I made, walk the dog motion triggered the 2 fish to hit, and one nice catfish on a bunker chunk. A good day fishing  We must of just missed PeCO in the cove, he's another member of this forum.
A nice fat 29
Al with a 32 incher
The Cat
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Seahunt_al
Joined: 08 Apr 2012
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Location: Simsbury, CT
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:21 am Post subject: |
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| It definitely was a good trip - gonna enjoy Striper on the grill tonight for sure. It sure was amazing we couldn't catch anything but a catfish on the bunker chunk. For some reason, the stripers were only interested in moving lures yesterday on top. |
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PECo
Joined: 06 Oct 2009
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Location: Avon, CT
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:25 am Post subject: |
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Nice fish! So that's what I have to do, huh? Just cast and retrieve A LOT!  I heard them splashing around occasionally all day, but didn't really know what to do to get them. Did you catch the incoming tide?
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Seahunt_al
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Location: Simsbury, CT
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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| The fish were caught right at low tide. We stayed until around 7ish and the tide was incoming then. |
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jellyfish12
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Location: Canton CT
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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PeCO - My arm was ready to fall off from casting so much, funny. A large Zara Spook would get the job done, just walk the dog. We usually have really good luck with the 9" Slugo in the CT river but they wanted nothing to do with that Wednesday 
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DirtyDawg10
Joined: 27 May 2009
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Location: Granby, CT
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| Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Great job guys! |
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O-BASS
Joined: 09 Apr 2012
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:28 am Post subject: |
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looks like a nice size white catfish! great report
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fishfinder
Joined: 19 Jun 2011
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Location: Naugatuck, Ct.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:54 am Post subject: |
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I had that same luck without the stripers last sunday. 6 catfish on chunks. The night before was 2 stripers but on a sluggo and a fake needlefish bouncing off the bottom. We'll see what happens this weekend. Very nice fish there and again the smaller one looks bigger in those pics.
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mustang11
Joined: 14 Jun 2009
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Location: Deep River, CT
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| Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 9:56 am Post subject: |
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Nice work, those fish look great! The boat's ready so I'll be heading out there this weekend for sure.
Brian |
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