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

Stumbled here via Google while looking for ice reports. So far, I'm impressed by the helpful members & great info here! I've been finding answers to questions I had 3 years ago.

I'm a 30-something housewife/work-from-home abstract artist/photographer. Grew up fishing in the Wethersfield Cove, grandparents lived on Birge Pond in Bristol (grass carp, anyone?) My mom likes to fish also. My husband thinks fishing is "boring," but he knows that it could be much worse and I could be wasting our money on useless crap like purses and shoes instead of fishing gear.

I spent a lot of last year fishing Black Pond in Middlefield/Meriden. It's a decent pond for small boats that require rowing - plenty of lily pads to lock your oars in. This year, I have a trolling motor to save me & my dinghy from being whisked into the weedy death pit at Silver Lake. If anyone else is in a similar situation - one-person boat, no livewell, poverty, new here and awkward, scared of weedy death pit, etc. let me know & I'll try to organize something for our shady non-regulation vessels.

I'd like someone with a "real" boat to teach me the proper way to use all these lures I can't seem to stop buying. I get no indication of their speed or depth from my low vantage point, so I tend to use ones that definitively float or sink. My best bass have been caught on rubber frogs. Sometimes I'll fish the bottom with a slip bobber/nightcrawler on a second line. I figure I may as well catch a catfish while I wait for the bass.

If you find a red battery-lighted bobber, please return it to me,because apparently I'm the only person who uses them. You can keep the green ones.

I've never been in a tournament, but I'd like to be considered as a co-angler once I adjust to the excitement of NOT ROWING for a change. Can't get my profile pic to the recommended size, so hopefully my image links will work:

(Released alive for you to enjoy)

Thanks for reading. Glad to be here. Smile

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Kira

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rjskeeter · Joined: 28 Jun 2008 Posts: 80 Location: uncasville

wecome to the site.looks to me that u dont need much help nice fish.if u ever want to fish down near the casino area pm me on the site let me know me and my son are always out
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TurtleKiss · Joined: 09 Mar 2010 Posts: 1200 Location: central CT

Thanks rj - i may very well take you up on your offer. I can catch fish in lilies no problem, but I need to figure out what these diving lures do. Haven't fished in eastern CT ever, but I like the looks of Glasgo & Lake of Isles just based on the satellite images. Do you happen to know if Lake Oxoboxo has public access?
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Kira

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pdcrack · Joined: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 727 Location: Wethersfield CT

very good detailed post Kira and great looking fish.
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DirtyDawg10 · Joined: 27 May 2009 Posts: 2238 Location: Granby, CT

Welcome to the site! Great looking fish.

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

SkeeterJim · Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 2219 Location: Newington, CT

Welcome to the site Kira and great looking Black Pond bass! Bummer your husband doesn't like fishing but I'm sure your get alot of help here once the cabin fever wears off.

Jim
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SkeeterJim · Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 2219 Location: Newington, CT

Oh Kira one other thing I forgot to mention, as much as it sucks be sure you have registered your "little" boat now that you have put a trolling motor on it. I'd hate to see an Encon Police officer show up wherever you happen to be fishing and ticket you for not having a registration sticker on it. A $15.00 registration fee is better than a ticket!

Jim
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If I didn't have to work for a living....I'd be fishing.
If I'm not in my Skeeter then I'm in my Hobie!

metalfish · Joined: 10 Nov 2008 Posts: 330

Welcome.
That is a hog for Black Pond. I have fished it open and at ice and never got one over 15".
NICE BASS

Old Mud · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 1048 Location: Bath, Maine

Welcome Aboard Kira, great intro. and Sweet Pic. OH and the fish looks good to. Very Happy

i see you have a sensahumor, that's kool. Mr. Green

Don
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Bass Sniper · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 255 Location: west haven

I dont think you need to register it if you only have an electric trolling motor actually....
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Bass Sniper · Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 255 Location: west haven

i was wrong..........
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billybass · Joined: 29 Dec 2009 Posts: 315

has soon you loose the oars and its not manual anymore
you need to register it,but it is not expensive,its like 7 bucks
for 2 years,just need paper work,,old reg,bill of sale,or title of orgin

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

Jim - Thank you, and yes I'm getting my boat registered as soon as the DMV sends me some form that apparently cant be printed out online. That doesn't mean the trolling motor won't make an appearance much sooner though...and I'm certainly not waiting until I've completed the safe boater certification class either. Has anyone ever been asked for that? I got my $40 license - in my mind, that entitles me to some free trolling.

As for my husband...I introduced him to fishing, and he hates it...he really doesn't "get it" and receives absolutely no enjoyment at all. Can't force him to fish, just like he can't force me to like football or play Madden '10 until I actually learn what the "wildcat formation" is. At least I have photos to prove that I'm actually fishing and not "fishing." lol

metalfish - Thanks, and yes it was a pretty large bass for Black Pond - I fished there a lot last year and the majority I've caught have been under 2 lbs. I had to row through some seriously thick lily pads to get this one.

Don - Glad to be here. My sense of humor is an acquired taste. Please don't ever let me get on a boat with anyone who doesn't recognize sarcasm.

Bass Sniper - Just register the damn thing. FYI, I don't drink beer while I fish - us sophisticated types prefer cabernet sauvignon.

billybass - My boat is 20 years old and never registered because it was only used as tender. I don't have a bill of sale - bought it off ebay years ago and the invoice is long gone. Plan B involves hiding the motor under a towel (washcloth) while I row myself to a more secluded area.
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Bluegill Terminator · Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 538 Location: Plainville

Ya for the boating license I got mine 2 years ago when I was 17. To this day I am 19 I have only been asked once to see it and it was on Bantam Lake which you can't even fish anymore without carrying you boat over the guard rail or launching up at North Cove. Same with fishing license I fish about 250 to 300 days a year and since I was 16 i've been checked 3 times. Once down at the Thames river, another at Bantam the same time the lake patrol guy asked my for my boating license and then when I got escorted from Monce Ponds in Bristol haha. Living in Central CT not many lakes get hit by the enconn but I would register your boat just to play it safe, and for the boating license I think you should be safe, just make sure you have a life jacket.