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Author:
PECo
Date:
Sep 23, 2012
Subject:
Connecticut River - Salmon River 09/19
Message:
I was waiting for NWDarkcloud (aka Bob) or mikey5string (aka Mike) to post a report on this trip, since I just tagged along, but they must be too busy. Bob and Mike got on the water in Bob's boat, the Way More Better, at the Salmon River Boat Launch ramp around sunrise, I think. I got on the water in The Other Woman at 8:15 am and pedaled up to the Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Plant Canal to meet them. The air temperature was 60 degrees when I launched and rose to 69 degrees by the time we got off of the water around 3:30 pm. The water temperature was a cool 65 to 67 degrees in the morning, but rose to 74 degrees in the afternoon. There was a decent north wind blowing down the river, but high tide was approaching at 9:30 am, so my trip up the river wasn't too bad. I got to the mouth of the canal at 8:45 am. The canal provided a lot of shelter from the wind, but I didn't see any fish activity either in or on the surface of the water. I threw and trolled a Perch Rapala Jointed Shad Rap JSR05 as I headed up the canal, but didn't get any action. When I caught up with Bob and Mike at 9:40 am, Bob was reeling in their first fish of the day: [img:ba7ef0e8b4]http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/100/img3575cropped.jpg[/img:ba7ef0e8b4] [img:ba7ef0e8b4]http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/7439/img3576cropped.jpg[/img:ba7ef0e8b4] The 12 inch long white perch would have been a keeper for me, well, if it [i:ba7ef0e8b4][b:ba7ef0e8b4]hadn't[/b:ba7ef0e8b4][/i:ba7ef0e8b4] been caught in the drainage canal for an atomic power plant, that is. :lol: Unfortunately, the bite didn't pick up much from the early morning. It was slow all day. But I got a couple of fish in the slack high tide. At 10:05 am, I got a small keeper largemouth bass: [img:ba7ef0e8b4]http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/3940/img3578cropped.jpg[/img:ba7ef0e8b4] And at 10:35 am, I got a 21 inch long northern pike: [img:ba7ef0e8b4]http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/6837/img3579cropped.jpg[/img:ba7ef0e8b4] Both were caught with a big Mepps Musky Killer inline spinnerbait with a white and red bucktail. Unfortunately, the humongous grapnel of a hook on the lure made removing it from the mouths of both relatively small fish really tough. After 1:00 pm, I was jonesing to catch a fish, so I tied on a 1/16 ounce round jighead and tried a few different small plastics on it. I boated a dinky black crappie with a white 2-1/2 inch Gulp! Minnow and a dinky largemouth bass with a two inch chartreuse curlytail grub: [img:ba7ef0e8b4]http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/1615/img3585cropped.jpg[/img:ba7ef0e8b4] [img:ba7ef0e8b4]http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/3795/img3586cropped.jpg[/img:ba7ef0e8b4] Although the fishing was slow, I enjoyed a couple of wildlife sightings. I got to see Soggy the Swimming Squirrel cross the canal: [img:ba7ef0e8b4]http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/4240/img3581cropped.jpg[/img:ba7ef0e8b4] And I caught a big northern watersnake with a perch patterned five inch slow sinking Sebile Magic Swimmer: [img:ba7ef0e8b4]http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/8507/img3587cropped.jpg[/img:ba7ef0e8b4] I think that Bob got a northern pike like mine and Mike caught several largemouth bass in the one to two pound range. Oh, and I think that Mike almost got a bowfin, but lost it to a soft hookset. I'll let them fill in the details on what they caught.
Author:
MarkO
Date:
Sep 23, 2012
Message:
Even though it was slow, thanks for a great write as usual. How did you get the trebles out of the snake? I thought for sure there would have been more to that story!
Author:
SAP284
Date:
Sep 23, 2012
Message:
Nice report Phil. I was there last week and at the end I saw a mink....never actually seen one before that was the first time...AND I saw a water snake too. Lots of wildlife in that canal!
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