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Author:
PECo
Date:
May 19, 2012
Subject:
Burr Pond 05/19
Message:
CT_bassman (aka Joe) told me that he planned to fish Burr Pond this morning, so I planned to join him. However, he planned to get there at 5:30 am. :shock: I told him that I'd be there, but a little bit later. :wink: My in-laws dropped by unexpectedly, yesterday, and my father-in-law was already in the kitchen when I started to get ready to leave, so I invited him along. We had to renew his Connecticut non-resident fishing license before we left the house. I tried to do it on my iPhone, but the credit card payment wouldn't process. So, we had to break out a computer to process the renewal and print out his 2012 license. We didn't get to the boat launch ramp until 7:30 am and were on the water at 7:45 am. I pedaled The Other Woman (aka my Hobie Pro Angler) and my father-in-law paddled La Calabaza (aka my Future Beach Trophy 126). When we launched, the sky was clear and the air temperature was in the upper 50s. There was only a slight north wind blowing down the pond. The water was slightly murky, but we could see pretty clearly down to about four feet. the water temperature was 64 degrees. I set my father in law up with a wacky Senko and he began working his way down the west shore from the ramp. It wasn't long before he caught a small keeper largemouth bass: [img:47ec790d09]http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8857/img2449cropped.jpg[/img:47ec790d09] Less than 15 minutes later, he got another: [img:47ec790d09]http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6906/img2450cropped.jpg[/img:47ec790d09] Meanwhile, I got a few hits from dinky chain pickerel on a Texas rigged Strike King KVD Caffeine Shad, but was able to shake all of them off. It wasn't until 9:05 am that I finally boated a fish: [img:47ec790d09]http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/8430/img2451cropped.jpg[/img:47ec790d09] Rocky! :? But less than five minutes later, the Shad got me a short largemouth bass: [img:47ec790d09]http://img837.imageshack.us/img837/9862/img2452cropped.jpg[/img:47ec790d09] Whoo hoo! :D I caught another rock bass before heading across the pond to talk with Joe. He had gotten a few largemouth bass and chain pickerel. Joe continued along the shore well ahead of us, while my father-in-law and I headed underneath the power lines and into the southwest cove. But first, my father-in-law got another largemouth bass: [img:47ec790d09]http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/4170/img2456cropped.jpg[/img:47ec790d09] And then I got another short largemouth bass: [img:47ec790d09]http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/3057/img2457cropped.jpg[/img:47ec790d09] There's only one piece of wood sticking out of the water in the southwest cove. If you've been there, you know what I mean. I threw a wacky Senko at it and [i:47ec790d09][b:47ec790d09]finally[/b:47ec790d09][/i:47ec790d09] got a keeper largemouth bass: [img:47ec790d09]http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4480/img2458cropped.jpg[/img:47ec790d09] [img:47ec790d09]http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/9185/img2459cropped.jpg[/img:47ec790d09] Whoo hoo! :D It followed my general rule of thumb for the size of largemouth bass in Connecticut, because it was 16 inches long and weighed exactly two pounds. A short while later, my father-in-law caught his first ever rock bass: [img:47ec790d09]http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/4669/img2460cropped.jpg[/img:47ec790d09] I guess that I can't catch all of them by myself! :lol: As I went around the cove, I noticed that the water temperature had risen to over 66 degrees. :shock: So I decided to try a small white spinnerbait. It wasn't long before I got a hit and boated a 15 inch, one pound, 15 ounce largemouth bass: [img:47ec790d09]http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/4774/img2461cropped.jpg[/img:47ec790d09] [img:47ec790d09]http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/3488/img2462cropped.jpg[/img:47ec790d09] We headed toward the dam as the air temperature hit 80 degrees. The water temperature at the dam was 68.5 degrees! I finally spotted some largemouth bass sized beds, but they were all either empty or inhabited by sunnies. Although a couple of the largemouth bass that my father-in-law caught had bloody tails, none that I caught did. I'm pretty sure that the largemouth bass spawn is over in Burr Pond. We headed back to the ramp and were off of the water by 12:45 pm. Now, I have to figure out how to target [i:47ec790d09][b:47ec790d09]post-spawn[/b:47ec790d09][/i:47ec790d09] largemouth bass! :wink:
Author:
SAP284
Date:
May 19, 2012
Message:
That 15" was only 1lb 15 ounces wow...I thought it might weigh a little more. Looked like it had a stomach on it from the picture on the check it stick. Nice day for fishing that's for sure!
Author:
pikePERSUADER1
Date:
May 19, 2012
Message:
[quote:fad0744797="SAP284"]That 15" was only 1lb 15 ounces wow...I thought it might weigh a little more. Looked like it had a stomach on it from the picture on the check it stick. Nice day for fishing that's for sure![/quote:fad0744797]i just thought the same thing!
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