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Author:
PECo
Date:
Aug 01, 2010
Subject:
Farmington River - Tariffville to Simsbury 08/01
Message:
DirtyDawg10 (aka Derek) and fished the river this morning from 5:30 AM to 11:30 AM. It felt like a cool Spring day for most of the time we were on the water, although the sun did begin to blaze a bit during the last half hour or so. After we launched, we demonstrated remarkable self-control and immediately paddled upstream from Tariffville Memorial Park to the overhead powerlines in Simsbury [i:24b28551de][b:24b28551de]without[/b:24b28551de][/i:24b28551de] putting a hook in the water: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWulySInYA8[/youtube] We didn't really move [i:24b28551de][b:24b28551de]that[/b:24b28551de][/i:24b28551de] fast! :shock: For some reason, YouTube double-timed the video I took with my son's inexpensive Olympus point-and-shoot camera. :? We didn't catch anything of any size today. I think Derek caught 4 largemouth bass. I ended up catching 9 largemouth bass and 2 smallmouth bass, all on wacky-rigged Senkos and Dingers. Here's everything that I caught: 11 inch LMB 10 inch LMB 9 inch LMB 8 inch LMB 12 inch LMB 11 inch SMB 14 inch LMB 8 inch LMB 9 inch LMB 13 inch SMB 8 inch LMB Here'd the 13 inch smallie: [img:24b28551de]http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/7465/2010080113inchsmallmout.jpg[/img:24b28551de] I hooked a decent largemouth bass after I landed the first 8-incher. It looked to me to be at least 17 inches and over 2 lbs, but the drag on the spinning reel I was using was set too light to get it into the boat. I need to take that reel apart! I fought the bass for four or five seconds. It never tried to jump, but pulled strongly away from the boat whenever I got it close. When I stopped cranking the reel to tighten the drag, it was able to spit the hook. [b:24b28551de]Sonofa*itch![/b:24b28551de] Like last Friday, today was an absolutely beautiful day for fishing. Thankfully, the day's not yet over. Whoo hoo!
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
Aug 01, 2010
Message:
Damn! Can I paddle or what!! Phil needed some pedal power to keep up with me... [img:91b7562f2b]http://a.imageshack.us/img251/8320/dscf00011863944.jpg[/img:91b7562f2b] That pic shows 2 things...how stable the Hobie is and how horrible the fishing was because it's the only picture I took today. I ended up with 4 LMB. A 10", 12" and another 10" on a wacky senko and an 11" on a 4" tube. I had a few more hits at the tube but the fish were too small to fit it in their mouth and tried to swim off with the skirt. We had some trouble locating the big boys today.
Author:
PECo
Date:
Aug 01, 2010
Subject:
Because I can never fish enough. . .
Message:
I went back to the river with my kids from about 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM. My daughter had been disappointed that I did not take her along with me on my early morning outing with DirtyDawg10, so I put her on the stern of The Other Woman in her lawn chair and we fished downstream from Tariffville Memorial Park to the old bridge pilings that mark the start of the rougher water in the Tariffville Gorge. My son also came along, but didn't fish. He just paddled around in my little kayak. I caught a 12 inch largemouth bass, an 11 inch smallmouth bass and an 8 inch largemouth bass. My daughter, thankfully, caught a 9-1/2 inch largemouth bass shortly before we left the water. Phew! Even after catching the bass, she was still so frustrated with the many unproductive nibbles and bites she had without good hooksets that we went out to eat sushi for dinner in Simsbury. It was delicious retribution. :evil: While we were on the water, we ran into DV (aka Derek), who was heading downstream to the more challenging water in the gorge to look for river smallies. We left before he came back upstream. We also met a newer CTFishTalk lurker, who showed me iPhone photos of many very impressive largemouth bass (i.e., 5 and 6+ pounders) that he's caught this year in the Farmington River and nearby waters. It sure would be nice if you would post some reports, Kevin! :D In any case, I'm glad that we met.
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