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Author:
PECo
Date:
Oct 20, 2010
Subject:
Mount Tom Pond and Bantam River 10/19
Message:
Daryl and I decided to check out Mount Tom Pond yesterday. I pedaled my Hobie and Daryl paddled a kayak. Yes, I was a little disappointed that I didn't get to see Daryl's new boat (to him), M.O.B.D., in action today. The forecast was for one mile per hour winds at daybreak, building to eight miles per hour by noon, so we headed out early. We were on the water around 7:30 am. The air was cold and there was very little wind. The water temperature was only 51 degrees, but it increased to 54 degrees by noon. The water was a little bit pea soup stained, but was clear down to about two feet. About two minutes after we launched from the beach at Mount Tom State Park, I caught a 12 inch brown trout on a little white lipless crankbait while trolling it north along the eastern shore. I wasn't expecting to land a fish so quickly and wasn't prepared to take a photo. As brownies go, it was not a particularly pretty fish. After I caught it, I thought that we'd have a productive day. Unfortunately, I didn't catch another fish for the rest of the day and Daryl got skunked. Although we saw trout or salmon rising all over the place all morning, they were not interested in anything in our tackle boxes. We threw wacky Senkos, crankbaits, spinnerbaits, swimbaits, swirly-tail grubs, jigs and spoons, but the fish just weren't interested. At one point, I drifted over a school of a couple dozen 18+ inch brown trout in about four feet of water in the southwest corner of the pond, but they ignored me. A shore fisherman told me that they wouldn't bite because they're pre-spawn, but I think that it's just the season for fly fishermen to outfish the baitcaster and spinning reel guys. Shortly after noon, Daryl and I decided to head over to Bantam River to get out of the wind and try to change our luck. We did get out of the wind but, unfortunately, we failed to change our luck. Daryl got close to getting the skunk off of his boat with a little chain pickerel, but it spit the hook right next to the boat. We paddled all the way down the river from the canoe launch on Whites Wood Road to the beaver dam near the mouth of the river at Bantam Lake: [img:849bbbbaca]http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/7057/032captioned.jpg[/img:849bbbbaca] If I had put the 300 millimeter lens on my camera instead of the 70 mm lens, I would have been able to post decent photos of the bravest blue heron that I've ever seen and the first mature bald eagle that I've seen in Connecticut. While it's unfortunate that Daryl and I had almost no success today, fortunately, it was a beautiful day to just be out on the water: [img:849bbbbaca]http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/4352/035corrected.jpg[/img:849bbbbaca]
Author:
Fishface
Date:
Oct 20, 2010
Message:
Nice job guys at least you were able to get out. Tim
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
Oct 20, 2010
Message:
Sorry to hear you had a rough day out there.
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