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Author:
DV
Date:
Jul 20, 2010
Subject:
7-20 CTR via canoe
Message:
Where - Windsor locks to enfield When - 10am -1pm Water temp - 80's Water clarity - 10 ft Water current - Swift and skinny Water depths - 3-8ft What - 1/2oz jigs with chigger craw trailers Setup - 7ft clarus m/h / symetre spooled with 20lb pp. 10ft of 20lb seaguar flouro leader material tied to pp with alberto knot / tied to jig with double uniknot. Okay to say I had an awesome few hours out would be a complete understatement. I might have just had my best short outing ever, I landed about 10 smallies with 5 over 3lbs. Decided to fix the canoe from the transducer incident last time out and limp my half broken car to the closest put in on the CTR (1/4 mile). I Paddled into the current breaks formed by bridge pilings and large rocks and casted upstream into dark water. I could hold my position rather well when fishing but when hooked up I would drift maybe 100 yards and anchor in the skinny water for pictures. First fish was a 2lb 15 oz, that hit like a short until near the boat when it freaking took off like a rocket ship. That got me shaking with adrenaline and I pulled a few more 1.5s out of that spot and headed upriver about 1 mile. The current and headwind sucked but I need the workout, fished some faster deep water and hooked up with my 2nd real bronze back of the day going 3lb 1 oz. Few more keepers and a 3lb 5oz came. Add in a couple 2 12s and 3 2s and my bag would have went a bit over 16lb for 5. It got to the point that instead of mumbling "good fish" to myself I just laughed in excitement. I pulled a pretty decent limit in 3 hours out and maybe 1 hour of fishing time. I used to not have any faith in the CTR and until this year never fished jigs. Well I now fish jigs almost exclusively and am devolving a love for the river. River smallies whoops the pants of largies, and I don't have to drive more than a mile to hook up with good fish. My summer goal of a largie over 5 has now moved to a bronzeback or 2 over 4.5, which I should get in my next few outings at the rate my size is increasing. The paddle blade in the pics is 20" by 8" for size reference, all fish were hooked in the upper lip and revived super well. AND no lost fish, maybe a lost bite or two but every fish stayed on even after some aerial gymnastics. Each fish was between 21 and 19. [img:bb1aa30096]http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/9429/87352583.jpg[/img:bb1aa30096] [img:bb1aa30096]http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/1557/58614875.jpg[/img:bb1aa30096] [img:bb1aa30096]http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/4021/15153073.jpg[/img:bb1aa30096] [img:bb1aa30096]http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9451/89645679.jpg[/img:bb1aa30096] [img:bb1aa30096]http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/419/39521183.jpg[/img:bb1aa30096] [img:bb1aa30096]http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/7541/36975820.jpg[/img:bb1aa30096]
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
Jul 20, 2010
Message:
Nice!! Great report DV. That was a productive few hrs you had.
Author:
Fishface
Date:
Jul 20, 2010
Message:
Those are +quaility Smallies, Do you do any weekend trips, I would like to put the Kayak in sometime with you. Let me know. Tim
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