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Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
Oct 10, 2010
Subject:
Farmington Reservoir - 10/10
Message:
Hit the Farmington Reservoir today with Peco (Phil) and Fishface (Tim). We arrived at about 6:30am and were on the water by 6:45am and off the water at about 11:45am. I had visited there during lunch one day last week and was interested in trying it out. Here's a few pics from the other day [img:3dafb4d2f0]http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/2900/dscf0004i.jpg[/img:3dafb4d2f0] [img:3dafb4d2f0]http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/9003/dscf0001z.jpg[/img:3dafb4d2f0] [img:3dafb4d2f0]http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/4261/dscf0003ny.jpg[/img:3dafb4d2f0] The water temps ranged from about 55deg and warmed up to about 57deg before we left and the water was pea soup stained. I was really surprised at the lack of color in the fish we caught as well as how skinny they were. We started off near the launch area on the West shore off reservoir road and worked some of the laydowns. Tim picked up a couple of LMB on a wacky worm right away and I had a couple myself on a square bill silver crankbait (which is what I ended up catching all of my fish on). I got an 11" LMB and 12" in that area. We headed North because that was the way the wind was taking us. I worked the rocky shoreline on the NW shore and didn't end up getting anything until I hit the corner of the shoreline just beyond the pump house. I picked up a 13" LMB just off a bed of weeds. Here's a pic which shows just how light some of these fish were. They almost looked like big shiners or white perch in color. [img:3dafb4d2f0]http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3739/dscf0002fk.jpg[/img:3dafb4d2f0] We fished the NE cove for a bit and then moved back over to the SW corner which was the first spot that received the sun. It was bone chillingly cold so we were looking for any warmth we could get. I picked up 4 more LMB off the wood in the SW corner. The biggest of the day was a skinny 15" (1lb 5oz) LMB [img:3dafb4d2f0]http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/7013/dscf00034977493.jpg[/img:3dafb4d2f0] After which I picked up a 12" LMB, 8" and another 12". We fished a bit longer and then decided to leave due to the lack of good looking fish. Here's a pic of the pond from today. The leaves were all colored up and it sure was beautiful which is more than I could say for the fish there. [img:3dafb4d2f0]http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7795/dscf0004a.jpg[/img:3dafb4d2f0] We decided to head over to Nod Brook WMA where we ended up fishing for about another 45min on the upper pond and then got kicked off by some group who was working out their waterfowl hunting dogs in the ponds. I didn't catch anything there but Phil picked up a couple on a wacky worm. I'll let the other 2 fill you in on what they caught.
Author:
PECo
Date:
Oct 10, 2010
Subject:
Yeah, what he said. . . .
Message:
The day started out very cold. The air temperature was in the 30s and the water in the low 50s. I didn't stop shivering until the sun hit the water around 9:00 am and I pedaled my Hobie a bit. All of the fish that we saw in the reservoir today were largemouth bass, and they were all small, skinny and pale. Some of them were almost more silver than green, like they had been bleached. The crankbait outcaught the wacky worm. I caught my first one on a little white crankbait. It was 11 inches long and had a hump on its back. It looked kind of like a white perch: [img:83de87c9d0]http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/396/2010101011inchlargemout.jpg[/img:83de87c9d0] I also caught a 13 incher on a wacky worm and a 10 incher on the crankbait. The 13 incher was the "bassiest" looking fish that I saw on the reservoir: [img:83de87c9d0]http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/4517/2010101013inchlargemout.jpg[/img:83de87c9d0] While the fishing wasn't great, the reservoir is a nice little paddle or pedal. We parked in a little pull off area between Reservoir Road and the reservoir. The launch area is totally undeveloped, but the bank drops off sharply, almost like a dock: [img:83de87c9d0]http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/7393/20101010launchareacorre.jpg[/img:83de87c9d0] The reservoir has tons of laydowns because it's apparently home to a bunch of beavers. Tim pissed one off very early in the day. There were three big beaver lodges on the shore. The reservoir is almost uniformly deep, ranging from six to eight feet with very little structure on the bottom. There are a few shallow coves; one on the north end and two on the south. I think that they'd be good places to fish during the Spring and Summer. Unfortunately, as far as fishing goes, I think that the reservoir is done for the year. It's just too darned cold.
Author:
PECo
Date:
Oct 10, 2010
Subject:
Oh, yeah. . . .
Message:
We crashed the Southern Berkshire Golden Retriever Club's dog trials at Nod Brook WMA today, but left when they started actually running the dogs. Derek and Tim had never been on the water there before, and I wanted to show them the upper pond. We checked out the south end of the pond, about 1/8 mile away from where any of the dog people were. The water temperature was about 60 degrees. I didn't see any evidence of the 70 foot depths that are rumored to be in the upper pond (the maximum depth I saw was only 16 feet), but we went in only a straight line from the north shore to the south shore and back. I caught two largemouth bass that weren't big (i.e., 11 inches and 13 inches long), but were vibrantly green, fat and healthy. It's unfortunate that the DEP closes Nod Brook for the exclusive use of dog clubs on so many weekends. As I mentioned, they don't even use the whole resource when they're there. Anyway, here's the dog trial schedule, in case you're thinking of heading there on a weekend: [url]http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?A=2700&Q=331868#NODBROOK[/url]
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