Thursday, May 6, 2010

The month of april

The month of April started with the flood that occured March 30. On the first there was still so much water around that there was no real possibility of fishing. But friday the 2nd I headed to Blue lake in North Stonington According to my photos i caught 21 bluegill, 1 calico, 1 yellow perch, a couple of pickerel and a large mouth bass. Saturday back on blue lake with Krystalcaught 1 large mouth, 2pickerel, and 4 sunfish. Monday the 5th I went fishing with Danny Ung and in the process of demonstrating the zara spook I caught a random largemouth in the salt estuary part of the Poquonock river. The 6thI caught my first mystic river striper of the year at the rt 1 bridge by seaswirl. I also noticed river herring at Latimer brook The next night I caught 7 stripers at the bridge to groton long point. Thursday the 9th the four mile river gave up 3 largemouth. the next three days I attended Mauras wedding in WashingtonDC the monday of my return I caught 15 stripers at seaswirl and glp. Friday the 16th 2 stripers saturday the 17th opening day i caught 5 trout at lower hewitts pond. the 18th 2 pickerel lantern and long. 19th 1 lmb at cutler middleschool pond. 4-20 4 lmb at the 4 mile river I remember thinking about every one getting high. that night I caught 1 striperthe next time I fished was the the 27th I pulled 2 bass from gorton pond.full moon on the 28th and on the 30th I caught 3 pickerel and a 3#lmb at whitfords pond? it was big.
so totals for the month were 25 sunfish, 27 stripers >6 pickerel, at least 10 trout and 14 largemouth bass. pics to follow soon.