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05-01-2006, 11:53 AM
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My brother is bald
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Parts Unknown
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Earlier this year??
According to my logs, things started about two weeks earlier in my 2 Spring haunts. (Tames and CT rivers) I was just wondering if people were noticing the same thing in other areas? Also, will this mean they will leave earlier? I know it is all relative to the amount of bait around, but this is only my 4th year keeping a log, so I don't have too much data to compare to.I was wondering what some of you more experienced anglers have to say about this. Thanks, Mikey
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seals + plovers = 
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05-01-2006, 12:02 PM
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Keep The Change
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Road to Serfdom
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Fruit trees blossomed about two weeks early this year as well.....
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“It’s not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections,” Antonin Scalia
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05-01-2006, 12:03 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
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They DON'T leave where i fish. Resident fish rule...
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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05-01-2006, 12:13 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
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I tonged bass this AM.. 5 were keepers, largest was 35 inches. Fresh fish.. most had sealice-
Even had a hook open up on me using a 3/8ths jighead on a queen cocohoe...
This was Smokin bass fishing for may 1st.. 2 weeks early IMO.....
oh..... most were on my bunker oil impregnated eels  |
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05-01-2006, 12:14 PM
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Boat by Day Surf by Night
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: North Granby, CT
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I've been fishing the CT River since 1991. I don't believe early spring CT River or Thames fish is any indicator of the "run". IMO these are winterover fish. Low water and a couple of warm days and these fish become active. That said, this year is relatively early but not the earliest my log shows at least 5 years with similiar fishing on the CT.
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05-01-2006, 12:46 PM
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My brother is bald
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Parts Unknown
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Got fish with lice on em out of the CT on 4/21/06. Definitely not winterovers. Also, the herring appeared a bit early as well.
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seals + plovers =
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05-01-2006, 12:49 PM
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Boat by Day Surf by Night
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: North Granby, CT
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I thought we dispelled this whole sea lice thing in an earlier post....and that it wasn't necessarily a guarantee of fresh run fish....Alewife run begins as early as March
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05-01-2006, 01:00 PM
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My brother is bald
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Parts Unknown
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I appreciate your input, but I have to disagree. It just seems that the majority of fish I've been seeing/catching have been 30+" fish. The fish I catch in the winter are typically much smaller. Sure, everyonce in a while you get one @15#, but most of em are rats. Right now it is the opposite for me. I caught 6 fish over the weekend. 37", 33", 31", 29", 28", 14". Those just don't seem like holdover measurements to me. That, coupled with the sea lice, trippled with the fact people are getting fish north of Boston, would make me believe that there are migratory fish around right now. What do you guys think??????
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seals + plovers =
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05-01-2006, 01:03 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Burlington
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Queen Cocohoe ? What the heck is this exactly? Can you post a picture of this lure pleeeze?  |
low & slow 37
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05-01-2006, 01:10 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
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http://65.36.235.132/merchant2/merch...tegory_Code=CM
those are cocohoe 'minnows' the queen is a little bit bigger and the king is the biggist-
off the top of my head the minnow is 3 inches, queen-4 .. king 4.5 maybe 5 
deadliest spring lure around for where i fish.
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05-01-2006, 01:14 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
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A or two earlier up here on the Cape but last night I was pleasnatly surprised at the size fish eating my poppers. Not anywhere as big as Nebe's fish but hoping those guys are just passing through his neighborhood on their way to mine! Earlier means more fish staying longer up here. Could be the year we have benn wishing for on the outer Cape as fish can be caught in P-Town right now, small fish but fish in the surf in April was a good omen. We will see what we will see!
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Why even try......... 
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05-01-2006, 01:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southern NH
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by Nebe
oh..... most were on my bunker oil impregnated eels
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Spam flavored bunker pregnant Horton Hogs??????
That just ain`t right Nebe 
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Good health and family
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05-01-2006, 01:27 PM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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you're fishing with pregnant hogs????
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No boat, back in the suds.
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