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Author:
imsafanct
Date:
Oct 06, 2014
Subject:
Skuned by chocolate milk 10/5
Message:
Yep, it finally happened. Bill and I hit the CT River yesterday and caught nothing. We launched at Wethersfield Cove around 6:30AM and headed North up to the trash to energy plant in the South end of Hartford. We started fishing within the small cove at the plant and Bill got hit right away by a pike, right at the boat on a black spinnerbait. But, typical of Bill's year, the fish immediately came off. We drifted all the way back down to Wethersfield Cove, fishing the Western shore, and finished up somewhere around 12:30PM. I had one follow/bump by a larger bass after my Magic Swimmer 165 and one lighter whack by a smaller bass using the Johnson Silver Minnow. That's all the action we saw. Truth be told, I know better than to fish the CT River the day after a significant rain storm like we had on Saturday. I could only see a shiniest of lures 2-3 feet down before it disappeared in the dirty, churned up water. But my desire to work for river pike got the best of me. Oh well, it was still a beautiful day to be on the water. I'll get 'em next time! -Eric
Author:
Redneckangler
Date:
Oct 06, 2014
Message:
I put in at Haddam. Fished from before sunrise until 8:00pm. It was a long day with not much catching. Now I don't feel so bad. I had planned to fish pike, carp and catfish. I caught a couple of bass, blues and small cats. I was wondering if I should have put in at Rocky Hill to run north for pike. I picked up a couple of small bass and a catfish early in the am. As the tide started out, I went down to the mouth and snagged some bunker for fresh bait, and caught a few small blues on a Zoom Fluke. I let a few of the snagged bunker swim around, but no stripers or big blues underneath them. Went back up river to Portland in the afternoon. Caught a lone catfish south of Middletown, and a few more just after dark back down in Haddam. Still, a beautiful day to be on the water.
Author:
imsafanct
Date:
Oct 06, 2014
Message:
RNA, Do you use soft plastics for pike? I like the Keitech Swing Impact Fat and I've been throwing it into the grass/thick stuff and the edges a bunch this year. I've caught some bass on it and I want to believe they would be good for pike too. I'm just getting into throwing soft plastic jerkbaits as well. I have some 5" and 7" Zoom super flukes in white pearl and some 9" Houdini shads in silver and black/purple. I have yet to catch anything with them but in jerking them around in the salad, they look pretty good. I've also read that Slug-Gos and larger YUM Dingers catch pike as well. Any suggestion on color for the river? The bubblegum color looks ridiculous but it seems to catch fish. How about black? Thanks. -Eric
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