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jonnyfly00 · Joined: 08 Nov 2010 Posts: 104 Location: Simsbury, CT

Fished french's cove in Oxford today with my girlfriend kaitlin. I fished anywhere between 20 and 10 feet of water. We came up with around 20 or 25 perch, and one keeper crappie. The perch were mostly small but we pulled out a handful of keepers. I was using mostly a orange/green/yellow forage minnow, alternating between dead shiner heads and maggots. Both worked equally well on the perch. Kaitlin had slghtly more success than I did with a similar jig that had blue and pink coloring with a rattle, tipped with maggots. Didn't use tip ups today because I didnt know of any bait shops in the area. Overall a good day for the first time being out there. The only issue with this area is the lack of parking. A couple people were parked halfway on the street and halfway into the snow but I couldnt do that because I don't have 4wd. I luckily found one part of the road that sort of curved inward towards a sewer but I heard some crazy lady screaming at all of us because someone had parked near her driveway. She was like threatening to get the car towed and counting down from ten. Pretty hilarious. I can imagine the parking will be a lot better when the snow thaws. Another point of interest was the condition of the ice. It was about 3 inches of white ice on top of 4 inches of slush on top of 9 inches of black ice. I drilled about 20 holes and this required some effort with my Lazer 6 inch hand auger. But it was safe for sure.

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

When asianfisher (aka Billy) and I went fishing yesterday, we had only an eight inch auger and drilled only a dozen holes, including five for tip-ups. I'm ashamed to confess that Billy drilled most of them. When his uncle showed up, he brought a six inch auger. It was hilarious watching and listening to him telling Billy where to drill holes. "Over here, Billy! No, to your left! now back toward me! Six more inches! Okay, right there!" Surprised

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TurtleKiss · Joined: 09 Mar 2010 Posts: 1200 Location: central CT

jhines · Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 8

You have to watch yourself by French Cove I know someone who had his car towed because he was too far into the street when there was snow. He went up to his car when he saw the police and it didn;t matter they towed him anyway. I have also herd that someone drives by and will throw rocks at the car windows. I live close by and avoid it at all costs, besides you can't eat anything from Zoar anyway.

asianfisher · Joined: 12 Jan 2009 Posts: 920

Used to work in southbury.. great place in the summer..

JohnS · Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 41