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Author:
PECo
Date:
Apr 08, 2012
Subject:
Connecticut River - Keeney Cove 04/08
Message:
I fished Keeney Cove with TurtleKiss (aka Kira), today, from 10:45 am to 6:00 pm. From the flow of the water through the culvert under Point Road, we caught the tail end of the outgoing tide. Kira motored around in Dinghbat and I pedaled The Other Woman. There were only scattered clouds in the clear blue sky and it wasn't really that cold. It probably went from the low 50's to the low 60s while we were on the water. The water temperature ranged from 53 to 56 degrees and it was extremely murky. It looked like a cappucino; I could see my lure down only less than a foot. I had only two setups with me. I threw a Silver Pearl 2-1/2 inch Gulp! Minnow on a 1/16 ounce round jighead and a white 4 inch curlytail grub on a 1/8 ounce shakeyhead jighead. To make a long day short, we fished the middle cove, then the upper cove, then the middle cove, again, then the lower cove, then the Connecticut River just outside of the cove and then the lower cove, again. Here's the middle cove right after we launched: [img:3f4c19d069]http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/6928/img1920rb.jpg[/img:3f4c19d069] [img:3f4c19d069]http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/2323/img1921pn.jpg[/img:3f4c19d069] Only 15 minutes after we launched, I caught a 17 inch, three pound, two ounce largemouth bass with the minnow jig: [img:3f4c19d069]http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/7272/img1923zz.jpg[/img:3f4c19d069] And 10 minutes later, I got a sunny with it, too: [img:3f4c19d069]http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/11/img1924zr.jpg[/img:3f4c19d069] We didn't get any more hits in the middle cove, so we headed through the culvert under Route 3 to the upper cove. We decided to head upwind to the far north end of the upper cove, At low tide, the depth in the upper cove mostly ranged from only one to three feet. Here's a view of the upper cove from the north end, looking south : [img:3f4c19d069]http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/5259/img1925cropped.jpg[/img:3f4c19d069] We didn't get any hits at all in the upper cove, although we saw several splashes in the shallow water that we think were caused by carp, even though we never saw them in the murky water. We soon gave up and headed back to the middle cove, but struck out there, too. By this time, the slack low tide was just beginning to turn and we headed over Point Road to the lower cove. At 3:30 pm, I caught a surprise with the grub jig: [img:3f4c19d069]http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/8110/img1927fl.jpg[/img:3f4c19d069] [img:3f4c19d069]http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/6818/img1929l.jpg[/img:3f4c19d069] It was an 18 inch northern pike. The water that was slowly starting to flow into the lower cove from the Connecticut was nice and clear; we could see the bottom three feet down. It definitely helped the bite, because I caught a short largemouth bass with the grub jig immediately after the pike: [img:3f4c19d069]http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/5251/img1930p.jpg[/img:3f4c19d069] And then 10 minutes later, I got another 18 inch pike with the grub jig: [img:3f4c19d069]http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/3913/img1931w.jpg[/img:3f4c19d069] And then 15 minutes later, I got another short largemouth bass with the grub jig: [img:3f4c19d069]http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/2010/img1932x.jpg[/img:3f4c19d069] Meanwhile, Kira, well, she'll have to tell you how she did: [img:3f4c19d069]http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/9832/img1934e.jpg[/img:3f4c19d069] Out in the Connecticut, I got a skinny 12 inch yellow perch with the grub jig: [img:3f4c19d069]http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/5219/img1935ul.jpg[/img:3f4c19d069] I also had a close encounter with an approximately two pound smallmouth bass in the Connecticut, but it just grabbed the curly tail of the grub jig before swimming back down to the bottom. As we went back up the lower cove on our way back to Point Road, the grub jig got me two more short largemouth bass: [img:3f4c19d069]http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/7237/img1936fy.jpg[/img:3f4c19d069] [img:3f4c19d069]http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/3352/img1937p.jpg[/img:3f4c19d069] I had a great time on the water today. It was so much fun that I didn't realize it was already 6:00 pm when we got off of the water. Looking for fish sure beats hunting for eggs!
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
Apr 09, 2012
Message:
Not a bad day. Glad to see the bite is picking up over there.
Author:
chuckc
Date:
Apr 09, 2012
Message:
Nice report. Water looks really low from the pics, hopefully we get some rain this week.
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