Our intention for the day was to head out on the CT River, and fish for some Northern Pike, that we were hoping would be in a pre spawn pattern, and be very aggressive. Unfortunately, the water was already in flood stage and rising, and there were reports of large debris coming down river. Due to these circumstances, we decided to head back to the same place we fished last weekend. Josh had been fishing the pond all week, hooking up with many pickerel, crappie and two back to back 5 + lb Largemouth, both on a spinnerbait.
We got on the water about 8:30, it was overcast, slight breeze, ambient temperature about 52, water temp was around 58. We launched the kayaks, and tried to see what we could get for a Crappie bite. We were throwing smelt colored Berkley PowerBait ripple shads, on black jig heads. We were just bouncing them about half way to the bottom. The school was suspending, and wasn’t all that active. We did catch a couple, and missed quite a few. I decided to go try for bass, while Josh stayed back with the crappie. I threw a cast right on the south side of a lay down, and as soon as it hit the water, the fish crushed it. It was a nice 2.5-3Lb largemouth. Unfortunately, at this point, the wind had taken me far away from Josh while I struggled to retrieve my 5/16oz Booyah bluegill colored spinnerbait from the fishes throat. I didn’t think it was worth risking the fishes life paddling all the way back just for a picture, so you’re going to have to trust me on this one.
After this, we didn’t have much action, so we decided to move up to where the pickerel were very aggressive in the days prior. This spot did not disappoint, in about 3 casts I hooked up with a decent pickerel. We drifted with the wind up the eastern shore hammering pickerel the whole way down on spinnerbaits.
Eventually, we both got bored with the pickerel, so we decided to head back to the crappie spot, where we ended up catching quite a few more. Josh continued to fish the ripple shad, this time in Pearl White. I switched to a fire tiger colored rooster tail. Josh ended up catching a few more than I did here, but in the end both lures seemed to perform quite well.
The bass in this particular pond are quite hard to pattern, but the ones that we do catch, are all quality fish. Coming up on the spawn in a few days will be interesting here, because there doesn’t appear to be a good area for the bass to spawn. Most of the pond is very weedy, especially in the shallower areas, so that may be the reason for the lack of quantity. Or it’s possible that with the abundance of pickerel here, the smaller bass don’t survive all that long.
The wind really started to pick up about 1:30 and it was extremely difficult to stay in one place, or get a cast to it’s intended destination so we decided to head elsewhere.
After a quick bite to eat, we arrived at Messerschmidt’s Pond in Deep River/ Westbrook. This is another fishery that neither of us had put any time into, so we weren’t expecting a whole lot of production. It was pretty windy here too so we just had to use it to our advantage. We moved back into one of the coves where the wind was less prominent. We fished the edges for a while, then Josh noticed that he was marking some large fish on his chart, all suspended in 8 feet of water, just outside of some spawning bays. We threw everything we could think of, to try to trigger some bites, crank baits, spinner baits, chatter baits, jigs, and jerkbaits, but the fish were not active. Finally Josh threw a spinner bait right over two submerged stumps and he hooks up with a nice fish.
We didn’t have anything else after this, but we did get an idea of what is going on in there. It’s definitely a spot that we intend to put more time into. Overall not a bad day for either of us
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