[Lforner01]

I normally finish the Connecticut River at Kings Island. I have a small boat with 8 hp motor. This summer has been disappointing with very colored water and fast currents. I fish for smallmouth and usually catch at least six per visit. However this season it's been less than three and most of them of been small. Does anyone ever launch above the Enfield Dam? If so, where are the good spots to fish for bass.? Also I was thinking of launching out of Hartford. Any suggestions?

[PECo]

Funny you should ask. Today, Dan1 (aka Dan) and I launched our kayaks at the Donald W. Barnes Boat Launch in Enfield for the first time ever:



It's a really nice facility. We saw several boats, including a couple of deep-Vs, launch at the ramp, too. The water was really clear in the main river. Visibility was probably four feet or more in most spots. As for the fishing, well, it wasn't so nice. I hooked into a short smallmouth bass with a trolled Perch Rapala JSR-07 at the bridge piers that are just upriver from the ramp, but it dropped off of the lure when I pulled it out of the water and held it up next to my kayak. As we paddled up to Raspberry Brook, I boated a decent 12-1/2 inch long white perch:



We paddled all the way to the end of Raspberry Brook, but managed to catch only a small black crappie on the way back out:



I think we were there at low tide, so the entire brook was really, really shallow. And, "What about Dan1, Alaskan Fishing Guide?", you ask:



He struggled a bit and got only a Connecticut River ratfish:



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