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Author:
TurtleKiss
Date:
Mar 11, 2010
Subject:
Hello/New member
Message:
Stumbled here via Google while looking for ice reports. So far, I'm impressed by the helpful members & great info here! I've been finding answers to questions I had 3 years ago. I'm a 30-something housewife/work-from-home abstract artist/photographer. Grew up fishing in the Wethersfield Cove, grandparents lived on Birge Pond in Bristol (grass carp, anyone?) My mom likes to fish also. My husband thinks fishing is "boring," but he knows that it could be much worse and I could be wasting our money on useless crap like purses and shoes instead of fishing gear. I spent a lot of last year fishing Black Pond in Middlefield/Meriden. It's a decent pond for small boats that require rowing - plenty of lily pads to lock your oars in. This year, I have a trolling motor to save me & my dinghy from being whisked into the weedy death pit at Silver Lake. If anyone else is in a similar situation - one-person boat, no livewell, poverty, new here and awkward, scared of weedy death pit, etc. let me know & I'll try to organize something for our shady non-regulation vessels. I'd like someone with a "real" boat to teach me the proper way to use all these lures I can't seem to stop buying. I get no indication of their speed or depth from my low vantage point, so I tend to use ones that definitively float or sink. My best bass have been caught on rubber frogs. Sometimes I'll fish the bottom with a slip bobber/nightcrawler on a second line. I figure I may as well catch a catfish while I wait for the bass. If you find a [b:e94a4f0cb8]red[/b:e94a4f0cb8] battery-lighted bobber, please return it to me,because apparently I'm the only person who uses them. You can keep the green ones. I've never been in a tournament, but I'd like to be considered as a co-angler once I adjust to the excitement of NOT ROWING for a change. Can't get my profile pic to the recommended size, so hopefully my image links will work: [img:e94a4f0cb8]http://www.turtlekiss.com/bass5.jpg[/img:e94a4f0cb8] [img:e94a4f0cb8]http://www.turtlekiss.com/bass10.jpg[/img:e94a4f0cb8] (Released alive for you to enjoy) Thanks for reading. Glad to be here. :-)
Author:
rjskeeter
Date:
Mar 11, 2010
Message:
wecome to the site.looks to me that u dont need much help nice fish.if u ever want to fish down near the casino area pm me on the site let me know me and my son are always out
Author:
TurtleKiss
Date:
Mar 12, 2010
Message:
Thanks rj - i may very well take you up on your offer. I can catch fish in lilies no problem, but I need to figure out what these diving lures do. Haven't fished in eastern CT ever, but I like the looks of Glasgo & Lake of Isles just based on the satellite images. Do you happen to know if Lake Oxoboxo has public access?
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