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Author:
PECo
Date:
May 27, 2012
Subject:
Connecticut River - Hamburg Cove 05/26
Message:
DirtyDawg10 (aka Derek) wanted to finally try out his new boat, so he and I fished Hamburg Cove. He paddled El Fuego and I pedaled The Other Woman. We got on the water at 8:45 am and were off by 4:45 pm. The air temperature started out in the low 60s, but quickly rose into the low 70s. The sky was cloudy all day and threatened thunderstorms in the afternoon. In fact, we felt a few raindrops as we loaded our boats back onto my Jeep at the end of the day. What little wind blew came out of the south. The water temperature ranged from 67 degrees in the morning to 74 degrees in the afternoon. We could see down only a foot or so in the murk, but there was so much debris in the water that there really wasn't anything to see. The debris was mostly stringy green floating weeds. From the look of the flow through the culvert underneath Cove Road, we launched at the crude ramp next to the Hamburg Cove Yacht Club just before dead low tide. There was so little water in the inner cove that we headed straight out to the outer cove. I really wanted to troll some Rapalas around the cove and tried it a couple of times, but weeds would foul the lures really quickly. When we got to the outer cove, we saw a big splash and tried throwing some big striper lures, but it didn't take long for us to figure out that all of the splashing in the cove was from the massive carp orgy that was going on. In any water less than three feet deep, which was pretty much everywhere, there were carp splashing around. If I had had a net ready, I probably would have been able to get one. There was also a lot of boat traffic in the cove. Tenders went back and forth in the channel, and more and more yachts moored in the cove as the day wore on. Derek and I eventually went into chain pickerel catching mode. At first, he threw mostly a white crankbait, while I threw an unweighted Texas rigged Baby Bass Strike King KVD Caffeine Shad. As Derek headed down the east shore of the outer cove, I headed across to the west shore. At 9:45 am, the Shad got me the first pickerel: [img:875d834cf6]http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6610/img2518cropped.jpg[/img:875d834cf6] As I was typing up a text message to tell Derek, I looked across the cove and saw him taking a photo of his first pickerel, too. :o I didn't have a chance to set the hook on the next pickerel that hit the Shad, because it bit me off immediately. After I tied on another Shad, I boated another pickerel before the next one bit me off, again! :roll: At that point, I checked my tackle for wire leaders, but couldn't find any. So I decided to tie on a White Strike King Redeye Spinnerbait. On one of my first casts with it, I got a 13 inch largemouth bass: [img:875d834cf6]http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/2492/img2524cropped.jpg[/img:875d834cf6] [img:875d834cf6]http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/7581/img2525cropped.jpg[/img:875d834cf6] After the largemouth, the spinnerbait got me another 21 inch pickerel and then a nice 25 incher: [img:875d834cf6]http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/456/img2528cropped.jpg[/img:875d834cf6] It clearly had a sunny in its belly: [img:875d834cf6]http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/2110/img2529cropped.jpg[/img:875d834cf6] [img:875d834cf6]http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/5989/img2530cropped.jpg[/img:875d834cf6] At this point, I told Derek that it was [i:875d834cf6][b:875d834cf6]THE[/b:875d834cf6][/i:875d834cf6] time for him to get over his Spinnerbait Fear Syndrome and he should tie one on. He did and, after a short time during which the bite died, we both went to town. After at least one pickerel, the white spinnerbait got Derek a 17 inch, two pound, seven ounce largemouth that we think was a depleted post spawn female: [img:875d834cf6]http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1873/img2532cropped.jpg[/img:875d834cf6] Altogether, we probably caught four dozen pickerel. Most were 19 to 21 inches long. My best was the lunker 25 incher, while Derek's was a 23 incher. Along the way, I boated four keeper largemouth (two 14 inchers and two 13 inchers) and two shorts, and Derek boated the lunker 17 incher and one short. We each lost at least a couple of largemouth at the boat, including a 3+ pounder that Derek is probably still beating himself up over. :wink: We had a pretty good day of fishing, but I think that I'd avoid the cove on weekends for the rest of the Summer. Heavy boat traffic and drunk boaters don't look like much fun to me. :roll:
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
May 27, 2012
Message:
It was a great day of fishing. Sometimes it's just a pickerel kind of day. I definitely got over my spinnerbait fear syndrome. I ended up boating at least 22 fish and only a handfull of those were on the white crankbait and the white grub. The rest were all on the white spinnerbait. Here's a pic of the 17" LMB I caught. No that's not blood...it's the shine off of El fuego :D [img:498765b29c]http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/8216/dscf0005t.jpg[/img:498765b29c] Here's a couple of the larger pickerel I caught. I ended up with three 23 inchers and a 22 incher while the rest all ranged between 18 to 20 inch. [img:498765b29c]http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/4125/dscf0004p.jpg[/img:498765b29c] [img:498765b29c]http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/5817/dscf0007fr.jpg[/img:498765b29c] The new boat was great on the water. The seat was comfortable with a small seat pad I brought along and the boat was very stable after I got used to it. The best part is there was plenty of room for gear and when the thunder started it was plenty fast. Wish I could have gone back today to try for that "bass that got away"...I always hate when that happens never mind when it is on the last cast of the day. :x All bass (even the one that got away) were enticed by the white spinnerbait.
Author:
hila2006
Date:
May 27, 2012
Message:
very nice day men!! I honestly love to catch a butt load of pickerel sometimes, spinnerbais rule for that kind of day. Every public boating lake is going to be getting a little crazier. Do the patterns of boat traffic differ here than mass? Cuz everybody on Beseck today was pretty much going whereever the hell they wanted O.o Normaly it's counter clockwise for regular boat traffic.
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