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Post by barrebobber on Feb 10, 2012 8:16:26 GMT -4
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Post by barrebobber on Feb 13, 2012 8:19:59 GMT -4
new posts.
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Post by barrebobber on Feb 13, 2012 8:20:24 GMT -4
We decided that it was time to fish the southern part of the river yesterday and decided to scout out a few spots. The first setback we fished was a big one! It was a little overwhelming to look out across it and only one tank of gas and temperature hovering around zero with a wind chill. Without hesitation we set out for the biggest inside turn we could find that wasn’t crowded but hard-sides. The plan was for one of us to cut holes while the other followed behind with the camera. This is a great way to learn new water fast. Well we cut and cut and looked and looked and all we were seeing was sand, no weeds what so ever which has been the case on the river t his year after Irene sucked most of the weeds of of the setbacks. 20 holes and nothing, time for a big move, 20 more holes and nothing. I talked to a local who gave us a tip and we headed that was. Cut some holes, first drop Dylan drops a crappie in the hole, good sign! We fished the rest of the holes and caught a bunch of dink perch. I started to cut a line where i thought there was a channel. My experience was that panfish will use these channels in these setbacks as travel corridors and also ambush points. Finally we got into some big gills and Dylan manages to pull two crappies. After a friendly check by the warden, we headed north. The next setback was much smaller. We went past the first group of tip ups and around a point. Cut a hole, maybe an inch and a half or ice! Bye Bye. Next stop was a familiar one. Got to out last spot and cut our holes for the day and watched a kid fish out of square holes he was cutting with a chainsaw! oh boy! We got into some nice big river perch and managed to pull a lot of small crappies. Probably 30 crappie caught in 4 hours. All in all we had a productive day. Hot jigs were a Chartreuse and Orange Katy teardrop. We learned where to try again and where not to. Enjoy!
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Post by dylan8351 on Feb 14, 2012 22:59:46 GMT -4
Updated today. Check back tomorrow for two new posts. One from my trout/perch adventure yesterday and another for tomorrow on Champlain
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Post by dylan8351 on Feb 15, 2012 20:16:19 GMT -4
Updated again tonight two times. Make sure to check out the video at the bottom of the laker/perch post!
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Post by gofish on Feb 15, 2012 20:39:00 GMT -4
Dylan,
I can't get the link to work - for the video.
gofish
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Post by dylan8351 on Feb 15, 2012 21:35:39 GMT -4
yeah i noticed that. try again now. should be fixed. sorry! i want to embed the video in the post but it wont let me as of now
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Post by dylan8351 on Feb 16, 2012 21:19:52 GMT -4
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Post by dylan8351 on Feb 18, 2012 20:15:24 GMT -4
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Post by dylan8351 on Feb 20, 2012 22:27:48 GMT -4
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Post by dylan8351 on Feb 21, 2012 21:36:54 GMT -4
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Post by barrebobber on Feb 22, 2012 10:24:54 GMT -4
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MKMGOBL
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Post by MKMGOBL on Feb 22, 2012 11:11:48 GMT -4
barrebobber...do you make tungsten jigs or have access to Fiska style tungsten blanks? I use to paint and tie up my own bucktail jigs but not in a long time. Here in NH we have the lead jig restriction
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Post by barrebobber on Feb 22, 2012 11:37:29 GMT -4
No lead is something we deal with all the time since we fish the conn. river a lot. i haven't got that far on pouring any jigs. Tungsten has a really high melting point so i'd need some new toys to get to that point.
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Post by wey on Feb 22, 2012 12:34:52 GMT -4
Nice that sounds like fun ... And alot cheaper too
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