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Author:
PECo
Date:
May 18, 2018
Subject:
Connecticut River - Haddam Meadows 05/18
Message:
I swapped out the cranking battery in my bass boat on Thursday, so JJay (aka Jason) and I took the boat out for a test run, today. The weather forecast looked pretty good: [img:e142fba9ff]https://imageshack.com/a/img923/6432/QzkOv4.jpg[/img:e142fba9ff] With the wind out of the east, we decided to fish the Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Plant discharge canal. Unfortunately, the tides weren't ideal, because we launched at 9:00 am, right before the slack low tide: [img:e142fba9ff]https://imageshack.com/a/img924/5031/lgKKyu.jpg[/img:e142fba9ff] We caught a lot of fish before we got off the water at 4:00 pm. The first one I boated ended up being the lunker largemouth bass: [img:e142fba9ff]https://imageshack.com/a/img922/8171/DiIJgk.jpg[/img:e142fba9ff] It weighed only three pounds, one ounce, but it was a chunker. We got six keepers and several shorts into the boat. We also caught a bunch of black crappie: [img:e142fba9ff]https://imageshack.com/a/img921/6670/zBMGIJ.jpg[/img:e142fba9ff] I actually lost what was probably an even bigger one when the six pound test fluoro line I was using broke. That became a little bit of a disappointing pattern, because I also broke off another three-plus pound largemouth bass and a huge northern pike that might have been 40 inches long. After I switched to a setup spooled with 15 pound test fluoro line :roll:, I boated a surprise channel catfish: [img:e142fba9ff]https://imageshack.com/a/img923/69/wEXenG.jpg[/img:e142fba9ff] Just when I began to wonder where all of the chain pickerel went, I caught one, of course: [img:e142fba9ff]https://imageshack.com/a/img922/505/UDSJD5.jpg[/img:e142fba9ff] And then, I caught a consolation pike: [img:e142fba9ff]https://imageshack.com/a/img921/4642/HIGkaG.jpg[/img:e142fba9ff] Now, Jason DID catch some fish, too: [img:e142fba9ff]https://imageshack.com/a/img921/2876/n9DSKR.jpg[/img:e142fba9ff] :lol: Okay, so not ALL of his fish were dinks: [img:e142fba9ff]https://imageshack.com/a/img923/922/ZvGTCr.jpg[/img:e142fba9ff] After being out of town for almost two weeks, it was nice to come home to more of a summertime bite. Hopefully, this weekend's rain won't kill it.
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