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Author:
PECo
Date:
Apr 06, 2012
Subject:
Connecticut River - Hamburg Cove 04/06
Message:
I decided to head down to Old Lyme and check out Hamburg Cove, again, today. For real, this time. :lol: I launched in El Habaņero at the ramp next to the Hamburg Cove Yacht Club and got on the water at 9:15 am:
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The air temperature was in the low 50s, but I enjoyed full sun. Unfortunately, however, I also enjoyed a brisk wind. :roll: The water temperature ranged from 48 to 50 degrees until after noon, when it warmed up to as high as 52 degrees. The water was fairly murky, with visibility down only two to three feet. The water level was already pretty high when I launched, although the high tide was around noon. I pedaled around the inner cove for a while, but didn't see any fish either in the murky water or on my fish finder. I threw a white four inch curlytail grub on a 1/8 ounce shakeyhead jighead and a Silver Pearl 2-1/2 inch Gulp! Minnow on a 1/16 ounce round jighead. Before I headed to the channel that leads to the outer cove, I threw the grub jig at the steel seawall. On one retrieve, I pulled the grub jig out of the water just in time to see the back of a chain pickerel that was following it glide underneath me. Only a couple of casts later, though, I boated my first fish, which was a 22 inch chain pickerel:
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I threw both the grub jig and the minnow jig as I pedaled through the channel, but didn't get any hits. Not long after I got into the outer cove, however, I boated a nine inch white perch with the minnow jig:
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And within the next 10 minutes, the minnow jig also got me two more fish. First, I got a fatty yellow perch:
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Next, I got another pickerel, but this time it was a 24 incher:
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I boated several more yellow perch and pickerel, before I caught the lunker pickerel, which was 26 inches long:
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After I de-slimed myself from the pickerel, I boated a largemouth bass:
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Yeah, it was only a short, but it was a largemouth bass! Whoo hoo! :D Less than 15 minutes later, I caught a sunny, too:
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The wind couldn't make up its mind from which direction to blow until about 2:00 pm, when it decided to blow from the north:
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Here's another fatty yellow perch:
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And here's a pickerel that had someone else's curlytail grub jig still in its mouth:
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I got off of the water at 3:30 pm. All in all, I caught more than a dozen pickerel, more than a dozen yellow perch, two sunnies, one white perch and one largemouth bass. I caught three of the pickerel with the grub jig and the rest with the minnow jig. Like I said, Mark, the minnow jig will catch anything. :wink:
Author:
SeaDog1
Date:
Apr 06, 2012
Message:
Hi,
Another good day at Hamburg for you Phil ! thumbup
Plan to get out tomorrow -> Got a lot of the yard finally cleaned up.
Next will be to get the veggie garden tilled.
We had a large brush fire at the west end of Winsted today just off Rt. 183 north.
Wind is not helping -> all the fallen trees and limbs + under brush are dry as a bone -> Fire warnings are at HIGH for all of the state!
SeaDog1
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
Apr 06, 2012
Message:
Nice looking fatty pickerel you got!!
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