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Reports of big fish in the Housy kept me away from the inland bass waters today, as Alex and Steve and Dave and I all decided that the river needed one more visit. We had a gorgeous day weather-wise, which brought out the wanabes, pleasure boaters and jet skiersin droves. But the power company never [...] Steve & I went out on the river today. Brutal post frontal conditions, with high winds, and a mile high barometer. Water temp in the river up over 51 degrees. We caught 90-some-odd between us (with Steve catching the lion’s share, as I got only 38). The warm weather all week, prior to this front, [...] Broken boat didn’t stop me — not as long as Alex was willing to go out for the morning. We both had to be home and cleaned up/made presentable by noon, so we fished from about 7 until 11AM. Got about 90 between us. A few too many runts, but enough big fish to offset them, too. Just [...] Blog member Tommy Treble joined me for a day chasing stripers on the Housy today. I fretted long and hard over whether to hit the Housy again, or go bass fishing. No way I was going to hit my 2000 fish goal, but I really wanted to see if the increased activity I encountered late yesterday [...] After last Sunday’s 180+, I thought it might just be possible to hit the goal again this year. If the fish stayed anything like they had been, 300 fish in 2-and-a-half days seemed doable. But they didn’t. Fished with blog member Xavier today. We started around 8 and ran down river. Didn’t see a whole lot of [...] …Sunday was the kind of day you wait all year for. I had expected to fish with Alex today. Alex couldn’t go. I think he was attacked by the honeydew list. So was Steve. Dave couldn’t make it. Jim? Well, once he sets the hook on his first pig largemouth of the year in March, he’s done with stripers until Thanksgiving. Cubby was in Massachusetts, and Tommy was nowhere to be found. By the time I was done finding people who couldn’t go to the river with me on Sunday, it was too late to find anyone who could. View the entire post — Saturday was pretty good. But Sunday… 16 degrees last night. Ice in the guides all morning. Nasty, cold wind. None of it mattered. View the entire post — What happened to spring? Was joined for the morning by Brennan from Trumbull, who had never caught a striper. He has now. View the entire post — 2nd day of spring. Decent, but not like yesterday. The spring-like conditions (wait a minute. It wasn’t ‘spring-like’, it really was springtime, as today was the Vernal Equinox) brought out the fleet of wannabe striper fishermen on the river, as could easily have been predicted. View the entire post — It’s spring. Jim & I had the river to ourselves today. Normal people don’t head out when the weathermen are talking about temps in the 30s, three inches of rain, 20mph winds with gusts to 50 and a flood watch in place. I guess we ain’t normal. But we are old. View the entire post — Only wackos would have ventured out today. Or geezers. Not sure what’s going on with the stripers there this year, but despite an improvement in conditions that we all expected would spur a pretty solid increase in fish activity, we ended up instead with just another tough weekend on the Housy. View the entire post — So much for getting steadily better… It certainly wasn’t like last weekend’s active fish feeding in current, but it wasn’t terrible, like the last few weeks prior to that, either. The flood conditions following all the snow and snow melt the last 4 days had the water temps down a bit, and had the lethargic fish milling around in spots out of the direct current flow. View the entire post — It’ll get steadily better from here on out |
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