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PECo
Joined: 06 Oct 2009
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Location: Avon, CT
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 Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 4:42 pm Post subject: Housatonic River - Shelton 03/21 |
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JJay (aka Jason) hadn't been fishing since last year and had the day off from work on Friday, so I talked him into blowing off his chores and fishing the lower Housy with me. We got on the water at the Sunnyside Boat Launch Facility in Shelton at just after 8:00 am and headed downriver to fish the stretch in front of Pine Rock Park. I was very pleased to find that the bite was still on from the day before. The weather conditions, however, were a lot more challenging. It was colder and much, much windier.  It took a while, but Jason boated his first fish of 2014 at 9:42 am:
Whoo hoo!  The bite was fairly consistent, but the best bite was in the wind tunnel directly in front of the cove at Pine Rock Park. The west-northwest wind was howling through it at over 20 miles per hour, whipping up whitecaps in the cove. We left the hot bite to get alee of the wind. While the fish in front of the cove were all dinky, I managed to get one a little bit upriver that was respectable, although still not a keeper:
Yeap, the waterproof case for Jason's iPhone makes all of his photos look like they were processed in Instagram.  However, THIS was the only fish I considered measuring all day:
That's my Personal Worst so far this year. Here's Jason with a better fish that he boated at 12:14 pm:
Although I planned for a short day, I thought we would fish until 3:30 pm. However, Jason, like my son the day before, got hungry, so we headed back to the ramp just after 1:00 pm. We ended up boating 31 schoolies. Still not great, but not bad, either. If anyone has any suggestions regarding how to get finicky schoolies to open their mouths, please feel free to share them with me.
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Michael
Joined: 28 Jan 2012
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Location: Bridgeport
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| Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2014 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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The color and texture of the pic makes me think of something taken during the 60's or 70's
As for getting finicky schoolies to bite, sometimes you have to slowly drag or bounce the lure right in front of them. That pisses them off and gets them to hit.
Color of lure can be another thing. When the fish are finicky, something very bright or something of fine pearl color will get them more interested. Silver gray pearl is usually a better choice than your basic pearl white while they're finicky. |
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JJay
Joined: 23 Sep 2011
Posts: 113
Location: Farmington, CT
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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I have been long over due for fishing (since November 2013! )
Thanks Phil for letting me remember what catching a fish feels like! |
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fishfinder
Joined: 19 Jun 2011
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Location: Naugatuck, Ct.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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You havent fished since then? How the hell do you do that???? LOL, I start getting DT's after 2 days!
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