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Author:
PECo
Date:
Oct 16, 2011
Subject:
Connecticut River - Keeney Cove 10/16
Message:
DirtyDawg10 (aka Derek) wanted to fish Keeney Cove from a boat for once, so jbrown815 (aka Jason) and I met him on Point Road in Glastonbury early this morning. When we arrived, we found that the cove was flooded. Point Road was underwater to the top guardrail cable and the water came all the way up the road to the port-a-potty:
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We unloaded the boats and launched at 6:45 am. Derek paddled La Calabaza, Jason paddled El Habaņero and I pedaled The Other Woman. It was a little bit chilly, overcast and dark, but there was just a slight south breeze. The water was very murky, with visibility of less than a foot. The water temperature ranged between 57 and 60 degrees. We fished in the area around Point Road for a while. Derek and Jason threw mostly wacky rigged five inch Senkos, and I threw mostly a 3/4 ounce Gold Shiner pattern War Eagle Screamin Eagle spinnerbait. Although we saw the occasional splash of a jumping baitfish, we didn't get any hits and soon decided to head through the culvert to the upper cove. We wandered around the front of the upper cove for a while before I decided to head toward the southeast corner, where the spinnerbait got me the first fish, which was a 12 inch largemouth bass:
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Jason had already swapped out his wacky Senko for a Rapala, but I gave him a 3/8 ounce Chartreuse Strike King Redeye Special spinnerbait to throw in the murky water. As we worked our way up the east shore, I threw my spinnerbait into the flooded trees along the shore. After Jason swapped out his Rapala for the spinnerbait, it wasn't long before he boated a short largemouth. I tried to take a photo of it, but Jason accidentally dropped it back into the water before I could. Sorry about that, Jason. :oops: On one particularly long cast into the flooded trees, I noticed some small branches sticking out of the water right where my spinnerbait was going to hit the water. I started my retrieve before it did and felt it hang up on the branches. But as I continued my retrieve, the branches started tugging back! :shock: I'm a little slow, but I realized that I had a decent fish on and boated an 18 inch, three pound, six ounce largemouth:
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We continued to fish the flooded forest on the north end of the cove, where the spinnerbait got Jason another short largemouth. Almost immediately after, my spinnerbait got me a short largemouth, too. As we rounded the end of the cove and started down the west shore, I told Jason that I couldn't decide whether to head out into open water or continue through the trees. Jason said that he was going to head out and I said that I would too, but I changed my mind at the last second and headed back into the trees:
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On a heroically long cast high up between two trees, I snagged a sucker branch and lost my War Eagle spinnerbait. The water was about 3-1/2 feet deep and I wanted to keep my spinnerbait down near the bottom, so I tied on a one ounce Bluegill pattern Strike King Bottom Dweller spinnerbait. I continued to throw it between the trees and felt it hang up on a log. As I began to swear at the log, I realized that it was moving. I yelled that I had a big largemouth on the line and when I saw it in the water, I began to guesstimate its weight. "It looks like a four pounder! It might be five! I think it's over six!" When I pulled her out of the water, I couldn't believe how fat she was. She was 21 inches long and weighed six pounds, six ounces:
[img:c6b3e26307]http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/7417/img1324ky.jpg[/img:c6b3e26307]
[img:c6b3e26307]http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/7621/img1326cropped.jpg[/img:c6b3e26307] [img:c6b3e26307]http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/83/img1325dm.jpg[/img:c6b3e26307]
My largemouth bass goal for this open water season was six pounds and I actually got it! Whoo hoo! It's my new Personal Best. Here's a better photo of it that Derek took:
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None of us got another bite before we got off of the water at 12:30 pm. Needless to say, I had a great day out on the water!
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
Oct 16, 2011
Message:
I got the ol' SKUNK today :?
Got a few small hits on the spinnerbait in the trees but couldn't hook up with anything. I had to live vicariously through Phil today.
Author:
slim2043
Date:
Oct 16, 2011
Message:
Nice fish Phil! Congrats on the PB!!!
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