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Author:
PECo
Date:
Oct 10, 2011
Subject:
Connecticut River - Hamburg Cove 10/10
Message:
*** Man, I was tired last night. Hamburg Cove is off of the Connecticut, not the Farmington! *** DIrtyDawg10 (aka Derek) and I fished Hamburg Cove from 7:30 am to 2:00 pm. I pedaled The Other Woman and he paddled La Calabaza. The day started of very cool. The air temperature was in the upper 40s, but it ended very warm, probably around 80 degrees. There was full sun and very little wind, except at the mouth of the main cove, where the wind blew in from the west at five to 10 miles per hour. The water was murky and there was a lot of floating debris in the water. We weren't sure what we'd find in the cove at this time of year, but we both started off throwing swimming lures after we launched next to the Hamburg Cove Yacht Club in the small cove. I threw a black spinnerbait with Colorado blades as we headed to the channel that leads to the main cove. Right before we left the small cove, the spinnerbait got me the first fish, which was a 14 inch largemouth bass: [img:0d8c644c76]http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/9229/img1289m.jpg[/img:0d8c644c76] We headed through the channel to the main cove. I got into it first. Behind me, Derek got a short largemouth. I continued to throw the spinnerbait over the weeds in the shallows at the northeast end of the main cove and tried throwing a wacky rigged five inch Senko at the shady shoreline, but got nothing. Unfortunately, neither did Derek, although he had a large chain pickerel follow his chartreuse spinnerbait back to the boat, so I swapped out my black spinnerbait for a chartreuse and brown spinnerbait with Colorado blades. After we had gone down the shady side of the cove for a while, we decided to head across to the sunny side of the cove. On the way across the cove, we stopped to fish a laydown where a drifting tree that had grounded on a shallow spot in the middle. I threw my spinnerbait beyond the laydown and as I retrieved it past the laydown, I got a 13 inch largemouth: [img:0d8c644c76]http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/1007/img1290mz.jpg[/img:0d8c644c76] We continued across to the sunny side of the cove and down the shoreline, but didn't get any hits. As we went around the point where the cove turns directly west, we headed into the wind blowing straight into the cove from the west. We decided to head into the shallow cove on the north side of the mouth of the main cove. Derek headed to the sunny side and I headed for the shade. 8) I was fishing a wacky Senko very slowly and tightly to the shore when I felt some weight on the line. And then the fish started to pull drag and turn The Other Woman around. When I finally got it up, I saw that it was a nice largemouth: [img:0d8c644c76]http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/9464/img1295ny.jpg[/img:0d8c644c76] it was 18 inches long and weighed three pounds, 13 ounces. As we continued to work around the shallow cove, I boated a few short largemouth and Derek got a pickerel. When we headed out of the shallow cove, Derek got a good hit at the mouth, but lost the fish before he was able to see what it was in the murky water. I tied on a 1/2 ounce bluegill patterned Persuader Imaged Blade spinnerbait to throw over the shallow flats. I hooked a decent largemouth with it, probably a two pounder, but lost it at the boat. I couldn't believe that it had spit the hook and when I reeled in my line, I saw that it hadn't. :shock: The spinnerbait wire had broken, leaving me with the blades, and the fish with the skirt and hook. :? Derek found out that yellow perch didn't get the day off from school on Columbus Day, as he pulled up a whole class of them with a shad colored Bomber crankbait. Meanwhile, I tied on a Gold Shiner patterned 3/4 ounce War Eagle Screamin Eagle spinnerbait and then we headed across the mouth of the cove to the south side. We tried working the shoreline for a while, but then I decided to try throwing my spinnerbait over the shallow flats next to the buoy-marked main channel through the cove. I got a few hits on the spinnerbait on the retrieve and caught a glimpse of a two foot long pickerel or northern pike at the boat. I yelled to Derek to head out from the shore with his crankbait and he soon got a short largemouth. And then I got a 17 inch pickerel with the spinnerbait: [img:0d8c644c76]http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/1262/img1297uj.jpg[/img:0d8c644c76] We headed back into the main cove and made the turn back to the northeast. Derek trolled the crankbait, I think, and I trolled a silver Rapala Clackin' Rap crankbait. Fishface (aka Tim) sent me a text message on my cellphone asking for a status update and when I stopped pedaling The Other Woman to respond, a 20 inch pickerel hit my crankbait, which must have been slowly floating back up to the surface: [img:0d8c644c76]http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/9233/img1300g.jpg[/img:0d8c644c76] It doesn't show very well in this photo, but the pickerel had a very dark leopard spot pattern on its back. We pedaled/paddled all the way back to the Hamburg Cove Yacht Club without another hit. All in all, we had a pretty nice day out on the water.
Author:
pikePERSUADER1
Date:
Oct 10, 2011
Message:
nice fish, that pickerel is really oddly dark looking!
Author:
slim2043
Date:
Oct 10, 2011
Message:
Catch that Lunker on Friday/Sat/Sun and it'll be 4+... nice job nice day nice fish
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