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Author:
iversonbaby
Date:
Apr 22, 2013
Subject:
Housatonic River 4-21 Keepers in the Dark!
Message:
Fished the housy yesterday for most the day. fished O'sullivans,, derby dam, and Stratford. Stratford wasn't looking too promising as I spoke with a fellow Ctft member and he was telling me how things were going. derby dam was quiet saw herring but only got 1 bite on a bloodworm I mainly focused at the north housy area. LOTS of fisherman throughout the day most throwing plugs and plastics I did not see 1 fish landed off a topwater plug I threw a 7 inch gibbs walked the dog to no avail. also threw a 9 inch black sluggo no takes. switched over to bait on a fishfinder rig 2-4 oz of weight we caught about 10 schoolies up to 20'' at dead low tide 2:30 PM went to get more bait where we ran around to the other spots then returned t o the northern housy at night 730 pm. the action became fast as I coulnt keep two rods in the water LOTS of schoolies and got 1 keeper bass at 28'' 7 Pounds. the two guys next to us landed a 32'' and lots of schoolies as well. we were all usuing worms (sand and Blood) we left at 930 bc we ran out of worms and I was tired and had a 1hr drive plus cleaning the fish lol. but it was very fast action after dark. lots of pluggers at dark but again no takes from what I observed. so I didn't bother switching over to lures with the action on bait. I think I would have liked to have an eel or a chunk on 1 rod to sort of weed out the lil guys bc they were thick. but reguardless there out there!! didn't see any see lice on any fish though so not sure about holdover vs. migratory. 1st pic is the keeper bass followed by a picture of what we mostly caught all day [URL=http://s935.photobucket.com/user/iversonbaby111/media/joshkeeper2.jpg.html][img:1692ffb7d0]http://i935.photobucket.com/albums/ad199/iversonbaby111/joshkeeper2.jpg[/img:1692ffb7d0][/URL] [URL=http://s935.photobucket.com/user/iversonbaby111/media/fishhhh.jpg.html][img:1692ffb7d0]http://i935.photobucket.com/albums/ad199/iversonbaby111/fishhhh.jpg[/img:1692ffb7d0][/URL] I would have liked to have gotten into fish on the surface but I don't have a bucket full of colors and sizes on hard baits. I think a 5inch silver rapala would have produced some of the smaller schoolies.
Author:
junkie
Date:
Apr 22, 2013
Message:
Good job, you stuck by using bait and got rewarded with some good action. Hopefully with the next full moon and warmer temps we'll get more herring to move upriver and trigger the top water action.
Author:
jellyfish12
Date:
Apr 22, 2013
Message:
Awesome post, thanks for the details.
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