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Post by nastygunz on Feb 16, 2008 10:53:00 GMT
not sure if this link will work but i caught this big critter on a mickey finn stripped in FAST!  |
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Post by troutpro on Feb 18, 2008 23:45:40 GMT
:oThat is a fat trout, it must have put up quite the fight. I would love to catch one of them on a flyrod.
I see you must have got a photobucket account? There should be an option that will post the picture instead of the link.
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Post by nastygunz on Feb 19, 2008 2:14:58 GMT
ill check for the link...yupp that day it was raining and i just absoluteley was hammering big brookies....i was casting a big mickey finn streamer out, letting it sink a few feet then stripping it in fast as i could with a few pauses and they were just crushing it.
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Post by nastygunz on Feb 19, 2008 2:16:04 GMT
p.s. released that fish also ")
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Post by nastygunz on Feb 20, 2008 16:06:51 GMT
its all in the timing Ken haha. I hooked that bad boy in Clough Pond. waded out armpit deep and commenced to flailing flies haha.
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Post by nastygunz on Feb 21, 2008 14:22:08 GMT
Hey ken, there are some monsters in there for sure, last year i saw a guy trolling who landed a behemoth of a brown trout, which he took pix of and released. have you ever fished archery pond?
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Post by nastygunz on Feb 21, 2008 14:27:15 GMT
pretty fun place, great scenery, i like chasing the "green" trout with a flyrod also   |
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Post by nastygunz on Feb 21, 2008 15:06:35 GMT
i usually have great luck with foam dragon fly flies, and streamers, never had a huge amoutn of luck with poppers. i caught that fish at turtle pond on a blue foam dragonfly. have you ever fished hothole pond?....its a trout pond but the best bas fishing around haha...if u have a boat and go there and cast the shoreline using some type of surface fly, you can just hammmmer the bass. smallmouths are alot like trout in their feeding n habitats.
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Post by nastygunz on Feb 21, 2008 15:11:32 GMT
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Post by nastygunz on Feb 22, 2008 2:12:15 GMT
yupp i have, in fact we were just talking about that place today at work. ive hauled many a bass out of hothole, its great bassin there for sure. my ace in the hole up north is my sister n brother live in a private community with a man made lake, my sis is the commisioner, smallmouth heaven, 2 big open dams with plenty of back cast room, very lightly fished, no ice fishing or motorboats allowed. Ive caught so many smallies sometimes ive got sick of it haha. so u lived in east concord, do you know about the tiny little trout stocked pond right in east concord?....some dandy flyrodding for trout in the early spring")
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Post by nastygunz on Feb 22, 2008 2:15:50 GMT
dont even get me started about the Conn. River, trout, walleye, bass, PIKE....")
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Post by nastygunz on Feb 23, 2008 6:34:18 GMT
hey ken, ive never ice fished along the conn. but i would suggest contacting one of the game wardens or the fish n game department im sure they could set you up. I usually fish more northerly. id also try google earth to scan down the river for setbacks, i do that for waterfowling. theres some huge pike in that river, huge fish of every species really. spring when the ice is firt going out is a good time to get some of the real big ole mossybacks moving in to spawn....i was fishing the early season one time, hammering huge yellow perch on a bobber with night crawlers, got a hit, missed the hok set, so i was reeling my bobber in to check the worm, it was gurgling and bouncing along, about 10 feet from shore there was an explosion, threw water on me, my boober n hook dissappeared for ever, almost gave me a heart attack, and gave me a huge back lash, when an alligator pike killed my bobber!
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Post by 5wt on Feb 29, 2008 23:34:52 GMT
Hi Ken Have you heard of the Connecticut River Watershed Council? They've got a great book about the river, gives you all the access information on both sides of the river and points out a number of spots on the river that get overlooked. It's a fantastic resource. They also have a newsletter entitled "Currents & Eddies". A good contact is a Vermont State Rep named David Deen who is the River Steward for the council. He's a great speaker who loves to talk about the Connecticut river and the fish in it. Connecticut River Watershed Council P.O. Box 206 Saxtons River, VT 05154 David Deen/ River Steward PH: 802/869-CRWC E-mail: crwc@sover.net Web: www.ctriver.org5wt. |
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Post by nastygunz on Mar 4, 2008 1:24:06 GMT
howdy 5wt, i think i spoke to him awhile back when i was looking into trying to get the state to ban plastic or styrofoam bait containers.
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Post by nastygunz on Apr 22, 2008 3:20:40 GMT
Fly roddin er this weekend!...think im going to do my traditional first day at archery pond...then maybe give merril a little fish!........turkey shooting and trout on a flyrod.......YEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
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