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Author:
PECo
Date:
Oct 26, 2010
Subject:
Connecticut River - Keeney Cove 10/26
Message:
Daryl wanted to have at least a chance of catching a northern pike today, so we fished Keeney Cove. He had never been there before, anyway. We got on the water around 8:30 am and stayed out until about 3:30 pm. It was about as perfect as a day could be for fishing from a kayak until about 2:00 pm, when the wind began to rise from the south and some clouds rolled in. It was cool, clear, sunny and calm for most of the day. I had forgotten to charge the battery for my Hobie's fish finder last night, so I don't know what the water temperature was. The water was clear down to about four feet in most places. We launched from the ramp on Point Road into the middle cove. The water level was as high as I've ever seen it. It was within a foot of the top of the culvert underneath Point Road: [img:2c7c36e22e]http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/6179/003cropped.jpg[/img:2c7c36e22e] When we arrived, the water was flowing out of the cove. We fished the really deep area around the south end of the middle cove for a while, but soon headed for the culverts underneath Route 3 that lead to the upper cove, because I wanted to check out the upper cove before the water level dropped: [img:2c7c36e22e]http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/5941/009cropped.jpg[/img:2c7c36e22e] As we approached the culverts, Daryl pitched a wacky-rigged four inch blue pearl/black hologram Yamasenko along the west side of the channel, and I pitched a crankbait and my favorite wacky-rigged five inch green pumpkin/red flake Senko along the east side. It wasn't until I pitched my Senko at the center divider between the two culverts that I got a hit and landed a 17 inch, two pound, 14 ounce largemouth bass: [img:2c7c36e22e]http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/7172/2010102617inch2pound14o.jpg[/img:2c7c36e22e] Like most of the largemouth bites that I've gotten lately, it picked up the Senko off of the bottom. We headed through the culverts to the upper cove: [img:2c7c36e22e]http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/1142/013corrected.jpg[/img:2c7c36e22e] Shortly after we got into the upper cove, Daryl got a hit on his Yamasenko and landed a 15 inch, one pound, 10 ounce largemouth bass: [img:2c7c36e22e]http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/4263/020cropped.jpg[/img:2c7c36e22e][img:2c7c36e22e]http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/7103/021corrected.jpg[/img:2c7c36e22e] [img:2c7c36e22e]http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/6957/025cropped.jpg[/img:2c7c36e22e] As we worked further into the upper cove, we drifted north with a push from a slight south breeze. The water level averaged around two and a half feet. Close to the shore and in spots it was one foot deep, and in a few other spots it was four feet deep. But everywhere we went, we drifted over submerged weeds. We didn't see much action on the way to the north end of the cove. We spotted a couple of large fish that looked like carp and spooked a lot of little fish. At one point, I got a bite on my Senko from what I'm pretty sure was a foot long northern pike that let go of it about three feet from the boat. It wasn't until we got to the tall grasses on the north end that I got a hit on a black one quarter ounce spinnerbait with a colorado blade. It was a 15 inch, one pound, three ounce largemouth bass. We were tired of working over the shallow submerged weeds in the upper cove and decided to head back to the middle cove. While heading back through the culvert, I landed a 16 inch, one pound, 13 ounce largemouth bass. When we got to the middle cove, we did some cove maintenance. Daryl had been collecting discarded fishing line all day, and got a nice jig 'n pig for his effort. But just inside the middle cove, he spotted a discarded car battery. He climbed the rocks on the shore and we horsed it onto the back of my Hobie. Take that, Al Gore! As we worked around the middle cove, the wind began to rise and we noticed that the water was flowing into the cove through the culvert under Point Road. We must have been in the upper cove during the low tide, but the water level never dropped very far, probably a foot at the most. We didn't get any action in the middle cove, so we decided to check out the lower cove and schlepped our boats over Point Road. It was getting late, so we worked pretty quickly down the lower cove toward the Connecticut River. When we reached the last bend before the river, I lost my wacky rig hook to a snag, so I pitched a Rage Tail Space Monkey (i.e., a soft plastic crawfish-type creature bait) toward the outside of the bend where I knew that fish would hold during low tide. I got a bite, remembered to set the hook and landed a 14 inch largemouth bass. It was the last fish that we caught on this absolutely gorgeous day for fishing. And from two skunk-free boats this time!
Author:
Phish
Date:
Oct 26, 2010
Message:
Nice report as always, Phil!
Author:
dave_376
Date:
Oct 27, 2010
Message:
How do you pitch from a kayak? I have hard time pitching if I'm sitting;I almost have to be standing, I can do it sitting but I can't see how it is even possible to "pitch" from from a kayak. Are you casting or pitching?????
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