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PECo · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 5203 Location: Avon, CT

This morning, I tied new fluoro leaders on a few of my reels and respooled another with six pound test mono, and just had to run down to Countryside Park to get in a few casts. It was hot with full sun, so I stayed for only an hour. There was little to no wind. I could see schools of sunnies, a few yellow perch, a trout and some small largemouth bass in the clear but stained water. I was just about to leave when I decided to stop nibbling at the overhanging bushes and trees on the opposite shore, and throw a silver shallow shad Rapala SSR-7 as deeply into the shade as I could. I had decided to fish it like a popper, but a fish came up to take it less than a second after it hit the water:

It was a nice little keeper largemouth bass. Whoo hoo!
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