My quest began in January I wanted to catch a fish every month for an entire year. Turns out this is a bit of a "White Whale " for me. I have been trying to pull this off for a few years now without success. I tried again this year and here are my results so far
January: 1 striper in Norwich Harbor Jan 31 ( i should add that December was productive during the full moon and the new moon I caught fish)
February: NO fish. So you see my problem I always start out OK in Jan but my plan falls apart within 1 month it dosen't help that Feb is only 28 days but It broke my chances right away.
March: 1 Large mouth, 1 Pickerel about 6" both on a white rooster tail spinner. only these somehow became the only two fish i caught all month I was sure the miracle of spring 2007 would repeat with stripers caught in the end of march. No dice
April: I believed the fishing would start at the full moon on the 9th... I looked hard for two days before and two days after but NO FISH. heard that hamburg cove was lit up. Finally on thursday the 23rd two days before the new moon I caught the first summer striper for 2009 I could feel the momentum of the season was already there. There would not be a trickle in like 2008. The fish were at the fisherman bridge stacked up and within 2 hours I had caught 13 on a 1/16 oz jig head with white maribou tail. the next night after a day of spearfishing Blackfish also caught 30 menhaden good to see a big school so early in the I returned to catch another 20. On the new moon I stayed out till 2:30 and caught +-30 on 1/16 oz jig head with green maribou and hot pink thread I subsequently made 4 more of these. sunday I fished long pond with KK and we caught 3LMB total for the weekend 66 fish.
May: 1st 4LMB at fitch pond dark green 5"senko was the hot ticket, kept one ate it for dinner also caught 5 stripers to 26"
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