KWK
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Registered: 01/27/03
Posts: 4607
Loc: TN
Let me just start out by saying we are all blessed by having him on the site,he is a vietnam vet,a wellspring of info and just a all around good guy....now onto it.stopped off at my native "idiot hole" wacked 3 fatties in 10 minutes...off to my honey hole pond,slow,still cold.i dropped a 5lbr right away and 2 more afterwards,aparently i forgot how to hook bass this past winter.buck scraped out 6 bass 12/14" and 1 bull gill.after a bit of in & out through farmington ,do you know any spots on the river? Yes , lets go. ...good old spot was generous.thanx george,for lunch and getting me off my ass today.long drive hope you had fun.
Actually I was the one being guided around the Farmington area today. Keith has been helping me on a project having to do with Inland Fisheries and I wanted to get up his way to compare notes, etc. so he decided to take me to some of his super secret spots. The first stop was one of the prettiest little streams I have seen here in Ct. and it was full of natives so we caught a couple C&R and then moved on to one of his private ponds which is the remnants of a sand mining operation. The water temps were too cold for a good bite. Keith used some larger baits and got bit by some big largemouth and I was fishing salted fathead minnows and catching the smaller ones but you could tell this pond was a hot spot once the water warmed up a bit more. I happen to love the Farmington River but it is too far for me to normally take the time to do a trip. Since I was there I asked if there was a spot that might have some trout left in it. So off again to some out of the way spot that was a really beautiful stretch of deep glides and pools. No one there except some dog walkers. We fished live shiners, salted fatheads and butter worms. It started slow but a move upstream about 30 yards made all of the difference in the drift and we quickly put five nice trout on the bank for Keith's smoker tomorrow. If we had stayed longer we could have scratched out some more but it was time for lunch. This was in a lower area of the Farmington River that I had never been to before. The rest of the afternoon was spent comparing notes on fishing and hunting and eating pizza and hoagies. Not a bad way to spend the first really nice day of the spring. You can always learn new things and get new ideas and today was no different. Thanks Keith for being a great guide today.
#1741704 - 05/03/1806:32 AM
Re: The day with Buck
[Re: KWK]
Crazy Ivan
Registered: 08/26/02
Posts: 18019
Loc: New Milford, and Anywhere Salt...
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Originally Posted By: KWK
Let me just start out by saying we are all blessed by having him on the site,he is a vietnam vet,a wellspring of info and just a all around good guy....now onto it.stopped off at my native "idiot hole" wacked 3 fatties in 10 minutes...off to my honey hole pond,slow,still cold.i dropped a 5lbr right away and 2 more afterwards,aparently i forgot how to hook bass this past winter.buck scraped out 6 bass 12/14" and 1 bull gill.after a bit of in & out through farmington ,do you know any spots on the river? Yes , lets go. ...good old spot was generous.thanx george,for lunch and getting me off my ass today.long drive hope you had fun.
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