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Author:
PECo
Date:
Sep 14, 2012
Subject:
Connecticut River - Keeney Cove/Crow Point Cove 09/14
Message:
I won't be able to fish for a while, so I decided to check out Crow Point Cove (aka White Oaks). I got on the water in The Other Woman at Point Road in Keeney Cove at 2:50 pm. I could see that the water was flowing out of the cove through the culvert underneath the road. The water in the lower cove was shallow and clear; I could see the bottom pretty much everywhere I looked. The air was cool, but there was a fairly steady five mile per hour wind blowing up the cove from the south. As I headed toward the Connecticut River, I threw a white slow sinking five inch Sebile Magic Swimmer. The fish seemed to be holding in the deep water next to the channel. Well, the [i:f337d30c9b][b:f337d30c9b]relatively[/b:f337d30c9b][/i:f337d30c9b] deep three foot deep water. :roll: It was fun casting the Magic Swimmer a mile and seeing it get slammed by small bass as soon as it hit the water. I missed a few little ones, but got a 14 inch smallmouth bass and a couple of short largemouth bass: [img:f337d30c9b]http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/3441/img3533cropped.jpg[/img:f337d30c9b] [img:f337d30c9b]http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/2706/img3535cropped.jpg[/img:f337d30c9b] [img:f337d30c9b]http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/8481/img3536cropped.jpg[/img:f337d30c9b] When I approached the channel that leads to the river, I saw it has gotten so shallow that even small boats would have trouble getting into and out of the cove: [img:f337d30c9b]http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/9884/img3537cropped.jpg[/img:f337d30c9b] After I rounded the bend in the channel, I boated a 12 inch largemouth bass with the Magic Swimmer: [img:f337d30c9b]http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/8212/img3538cropped.jpg[/img:f337d30c9b] I reached the river at 3:30 pm: [img:f337d30c9b]http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/4544/img3539cropped.jpg[/img:f337d30c9b] I crossed and headed downriver to the channel leading into Crow Point Cove. The sandbars have shifted a lot since I was there last year. There's no way a big boat could have gotten into the cove while I was there; the water was less than 1-1/2 feet deep in the channel :shock: : [img:f337d30c9b]http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/3922/img3540cropped.jpg[/img:f337d30c9b] I actually had to paddle The Other Woman into the cove, because her drive fins hit the bottom of the channel when I tried to pedal her. However, once I got into the main body of the cove, the water depth quickly dropped off from less than 1-1/2 feet deep to 12 feet deep. I decided to troll a Perch Rapala Jointed Shad Rap JSR07 clockwise around the cove. As I approached the south shore, the water depth rose to five or six feet, so I swapped out the Perch JSR07 for a Yellow Perch LIVETARGET YP98M. As I headed west along the south shore, I casted the Sebile Magic Swimmer toward it. I didn't get any hits and I didn't see any fish activity on the surface of the water. My fish finder didn't show any weeds or cover on the bottom. When I rounded the southwest corner of the cove, I decided to throw a wacky rigged green pumpkin/red flake five inch Senko toward the shore. After all, I knew that if a bass were there, it wouldn't be able to resist the wacky Senko. :wink: Sure enough, it got picked up by a 13 inch largemouth bass: [img:f337d30c9b]http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/1730/img3541cropped.jpg[/img:f337d30c9b] Although I hooked and lost a fish with the Yellow Perch YP98M, and another fish bit half of my wacky Senko clean off, I didn't boat any more fish in the cove. But as I paddled The Other Woman out of it, the wacky Senko got a couple of short largemouth bass from the shadows of an undercut bank in the channel: [img:f337d30c9b]http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/5645/img3543cropped.jpg[/img:f337d30c9b] [img:f337d30c9b]http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/3207/img3544cropped.jpg[/img:f337d30c9b] I got back into the river at 5:15 pm, paddled across it and headed up the east bank. I casted the Perch JSR07 and the Magic Swimmer at the bank as I went upriver. A big fish rose up and whiffed on the Magic Swimmer. :x I have no idea what it was, but it was big. :wink: When I got to the pilings that are just downriver from Keeney Cove, the Magic Swimmer got another smallmouth bass and another largemouth bass: [img:f337d30c9b]http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/5910/img3545cropped.jpg[/img:f337d30c9b] [img:f337d30c9b]http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/3133/img3546cropped.jpg[/img:f337d30c9b] I didn't get anything else in the now even shallower water of the lower cove before I got back to Point Road at 6:10 pm. If the tide hadn't still been going out and the water getting even shallower, I might have put The Other Woman into the middle cove to look for some northern pike, but I decided to head to Cabela's, instead. I didn't boat anything over 14 inches, today, but now I should be able to handle my next four days of fishing withdrawal. :D
Author:
Michael
Date:
Sep 14, 2012
Message:
Great job as always Phil!
Author:
rmflint
Date:
Sep 15, 2012
Message:
Nice its always good to get some fishing in while you can. Its hard up here at school, but I fish with Stephan and my sister took me to mansfield hollow today and I got a nice two pounder which made my day. If you guys ever head this way to fish let me know!!!!
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