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Originally Posted by oelgnal1
We wanted to take advantage of the warm weather and went to Ct. on Monday, got out in the boat on a nearby river for 1 1/2 hrs., sunny with an air temp in the mid 70's, water temp was 47 degrees after a few casts I got a 14" YP on a hair jig and that was it for bites but a beautiful day none the less!
Tuesday, 6 hrs. on the lake, blue bird skies, air temp mid 70's and water temp started at 52 and varied from spot to spot up to 56 degrees. Caught a little of everything on homemade hair jigs in 5 to 12 fow, 8 to 10 Rainbows, a Brown, a couple dozen YP, a similar number of pickerel, 3 LM, a few BG and a rockbass.
The rains on Wednesday were suppose to start about noon with an air temp of 66 degrees, got out for 3 hrs. and water temps were 52 to 54 degrees but not the day we were hoping for. Dropped a couple in the beginning with one feeling good but ended up with about a dozen YP and a similar number of pickerel with a few trout follows to the boat. So much for high expectations of seemingly ideal conditions. lol
I'm not a fan of pickerel because I don't like getting bit off but ironically all of the toothies get hooked on the outside of the mouth with hair jigs whereas the YP and bass will destroy the deer hair on the jigs and I need to remake 4 or 5 hair jigs.
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Excellent catches on Tuesday! Yeah, even when warm rains come in early October, they're not always productive. I did fish one when I was 15, which could have killed me. I wouldn't have done it after I grew up, because lighting was striking not many yards from where I fished, and a tornado watch was out. I feel sure especially low barometric pressure turned the bass on. Made them insane. Some of them actually leapt out of the water to land on my buzzed spinnerbait. I actually hooked and caught one that first cleared the water by more than a foot and then landed--mouth open--on top of my spinnerbait. I caught 32 that afternoon. One of them four pounds, three others over 3. I've caught more bass than that other times, other places, but it was my best catch from those ponds, which I fished very often.
