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Author:
PECo
Date:
Jul 30, 2010
Subject:
Hopeville Pond 07/30
Message:
I finally fished some water to the east of Hartford. I drove down to Hopeville Pond State Park with The Other Woman and met up with Flipper (aka Damian). He promised to show me how to catch northern pike. I'll let him tell you about that, but I will say that he showed me how [b:41ee1f5600][i:41ee1f5600]to fish[/i:41ee1f5600][/b:41ee1f5600] for northern pike. :shock: I got on the water at 5:45 AM. I think I was the first one on the pond. I tried my best to not wake the tent campers near the boat launch ramp. It was cool and there was mist on the water. It really felt like an early Spring morning: [img:41ee1f5600]http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/8516/20100730thepond01.jpg[/img:41ee1f5600] [img:41ee1f5600]http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/4313/20100730thepond02.jpg[/img:41ee1f5600] I started throwing a Texas-rigged Zoom finesse worm with a bobber stopper and 1/8 oz tungsten bullet weight at cover on the shoreline. The first fish I landed was a 16 inch chain pickerel that I snag-hooked when I felt it hit the lure and tried to set the hook. I got about an inch of fish flesh on the hook about five inches behind its nose. Ouch! But I think it survived OK. I switched to my usual wacky-rigged 5 inch pumpkin/red flake Senkos and caught my first largemouth bass on the pond. It was 15 inches, 1 lb 14 oz: [img:41ee1f5600]http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/5590/2010073015inch1lb14ozla.jpg[/img:41ee1f5600] I ended up catching the one chain pickerel, 7 largemouth bass and one calico bass. Here are all of the largemouth bass that I caught: 15 inches, 1 lb 14 oz 13 inches 16 inches, 2 lbs 14 inches 12 inches 16 inches, 1 lb 10 oz Skinny fish! 11 inches I caught all of the largemouth bass on wacky-rigged 5 inch pumpkin/red flake Senkos or wacky-rigged 5 inch watermelon/red flake Dingers. The calico bass hit a little white spinner bait: [img:41ee1f5600]http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/3107/20100730calicobass.jpg[/img:41ee1f5600] I met up with Flipper right after I landed the first 16 inch largemouth bass, probably around 6:30 AM. He was anchored in a cove with a couple of live bluegill already on hooks and swimming around underneath a couple of bobbers. Here he is in northern pike fishing position: [img:41ee1f5600]http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/8499/flipper001.jpg[/img:41ee1f5600] Like I said, I'll let him fill in the northern pike fishing details, but we later fished for largemouth bass all the way to the dam on the northern end of the pond. Today, at least, the largemouth bass preferred wacky worms to spinner baits. Guess which of us was fishing which bait. . . 8) Thanks, again, Damian, for a good time. I hope the rest of your time on the water this weekend is a little more, um, productive. :D [img:41ee1f5600]http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/323/flipper004.jpg[/img:41ee1f5600]
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
Jul 30, 2010
Message:
Wow!! Harsh report...lol
Author:
TurtleKiss
Date:
Jul 31, 2010
Message:
No pike at Bantam yesterday either. I think they took the day off.
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