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Author:
Michael
Date:
Feb 24, 2013
Subject:
Beat the Skunk
Message:
After keeping an eye on the radar and forecast last night, I thought today was gonna be a good fishing day for trout before the next system moves in on Tuesday. Decided to venture out on my bike from Bridgeport's North End to the Mill River TMA in Fairfield. Arrived at the parking area around 2pm and headed up for the usual spot. Started off by throwing my trusty brown trout Flat Rap FLR-6. After a few casts I set the hook! Landed my second trout of the year and first trout of February! 11 1/2" brown [img:d35b92921f]http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r614/mvsimko/115inchBrownTroutatMillRiverTMA2-24-13_zps77528e2f.jpg[/img:d35b92921f] That brown gave me some nice head shakes and did 2 jumps. Kept casting for a while and had another brown come up from the deep in the same area twice but didn't set the hook. After no more action I played around with a few other lures including glass minnow Husky Jerk HJ-6, original pearl shad Flat Rap FLR-6, purpledescent Clackin Minnow CNM-7, and shad Shallow Shad Rap SSR-5. Didn't feel or see anything with those lures so I gave the other FLR-6 a few more tries which resulted in a brown flash behind it on 1 cast. Headed downstream to a few common spots but didn't see or feel anything. Later I headed over to the Congress St stretch. Never fished that area before but found some nice spots for holdovers. Congress St bridge spot looked interesting but didn't produce. Casted a number of times in a few stretches. One certain stretch was a deep area that was calm on the surface but had that stronger underwater current. Stuck with that area for a while. In 1 spot on that stretch I had 3 hits by what seemed to be either a curious holdover or a cautious native. 1 was a swipe and the other 2 were quick head shakes. In another spot I got a quick hit and spit. Once it was 5:30pm I hit the road. SO HAPPY to get out and catch a fish and wet a line and lure!!!!!!
Author:
JesseC
Date:
Feb 24, 2013
Message:
congrats on the trout michael! i have yet to catch one this year, hopefully soon enough tho! :D
Author:
LUNKERBASSERFISHING
Date:
Feb 25, 2013
Message:
Back those casts that you get a flash up with a small spinner like a Thomas or Panther Martin and they usually take it.
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