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Author:
PECo
Date:
Dec 04, 2013
Subject:
Housatonic River - Shelton 12/04
Message:
I enjoyed a short day of fishing with TurtleKiss (aka Kira) on my boat, The Other Woman, Too. We were on the water from about 10:30 am to 2:00 pm, so we fished both sides of the high tide in Shelton, which was at 12:30 pm. There were more boats on the water, today, than there were a couple of days ago on Monday, when I fished with NWDarkcloud (aka Bob): [img:8605b1af47]http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/4511/loyp.jpg[/img:8605b1af47] The weather was [b:8605b1af47][i:8605b1af47]waaay[/i:8605b1af47][/b:8605b1af47] nicer, today. Not only was it warmer, but the winds were calmer [b:8605b1af47]and[/b:8605b1af47] it was much sunnier. After we launched at Sunnyside, I wanted to head downriver to just past the No Wake Zone in front of the marina, but we marked a big school of fish with the finder almost immediately: [img:8605b1af47]http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/3832/u9rm.jpg[/img:8605b1af47] Although we saw a lot of fishing going on in the dozen boats that were mostly upriver from us, we didn't see any catching happening. The fish were much more finicky than they were on Monday. However, that didn't stop me: [img:8605b1af47]http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/9589/dgf6.jpg[/img:8605b1af47] When the fish had grown finicky on me and Bob on Monday, I told him that I wished I had a more colorful, chartreuse fluke. Well, guess what I found at Dick's Sporting Goods last night: [img:8605b1af47]http://imageshack.com/a/img854/786/idrn.jpg[/img:8605b1af47] Finicky fish love 'em! The chartreuse tails seemed to do the trick and Kira soon started catching them, too: [img:8605b1af47]http://imageshack.us/a/img6/3186/y421.jpg[/img:8605b1af47] We caught as many fish as we saw ALL of the other boats in the area catch. Unfortunately, though, as the high tide approached, the fish got even finickier and more scattered. We eventually motored up to the upriver side of Two Mile Island, where we, again, saw more fishing than catching going on. And we saw my second fishing idol after Gary Yamamoto, RichZ, who was fishing in his boat with JimFish. It took me and Kira a while to get going, but we each boated a fish before we saw either RichZ or JimFish boat one. 8) There were a lot of lulls in the catching of fish and after a particularly long one, Kira and I each posed for Christmas card photos with the schoolie that I [b:8605b1af47][i:8605b1af47]finally[/i:8605b1af47][/b:8605b1af47] caught, which was one of the bigger ones of the day. Kira, being the artist that she is, brought tiny, festive hats to put on the head of the fish in the photos. I went with the black top hat, while she went with the red Santa hat. We used her Motorola Droid Maxx ("Maxx") to take the photos. After another lull, we decided to fire up the big motor and make a run back downriver from Two Mile Island. As we prepared to go, Kira said, "I heard a splash. Something fell overboard." Unfortunately, we soon realized that Maxx was nowhere to be seen. He had fallen overboard! :shock: Unfortunately, he wasn't wearing his PFD and drowned! :cry: After that, Kira lost her will to fish, so we left the water soon afterward, after having caught only 19 schoolies. :? Anyway, it looks like we're in for a spell of not so nice weather in the near future. I hope that Kira is able to find room in her heart for a new cell phone, so that we can get out there, again, after it passes.
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
Dec 05, 2013
Message:
Poor Maxx :cry: Nice day to be fishing. Unfortunately the fish didn't cooperate as much as your previous trips.
Author:
x182dan
Date:
Dec 05, 2013
Message:
Thanks to Peco's posts on ctfishtalk.com there will now be a hundred some odd boats out there this weekend because everyone knows that they are in. :)
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