· #1 Posted October 25, 2021 · Report post Could not make it away for a day of fishing this weekend, but was able to get away for a few hours yesterday and ran out to the Connecticut River. The water was at a very fishable level. It was just me, the fish, and a great blue heron (looking for handouts). The tally came to a number of big chubs, a bunch of smallmouth, and 2 keeper-size walleye. Dropped a few fish and had an (I believe) pike try to eat one of my smallmouth at my feet... No luck tossing any of the bigger pike lures I had with me and was sad to donate a big inlines spinner to the rocks on the bottom... But that is fishing! The sun went down and so did the temperature and I did not get any hits in the dark. 5 Go to top Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
· #2 Posted October 25, 2021 · Report post Dammmm I’m dying to get on some walleyes 0 Go to top Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
· #3 Posted October 25, 2021 · Report post Keep in touch, I will take you some time... 1 Go to top Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
· #4 Posted October 26, 2021 · Report post Growing up in Claremont NH, I used to get big smallies and a few walleye from my dad's Grumman canoe on that river. I haven't fished up there since my mother died in 2013. 1 Go to top Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
· #5 Posted October 27, 2021 · Report post Always love your River reports Stripernut, thanks for sharing! 0 Go to top Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
· #6 Posted October 27, 2021 · Report post Have you been getting down there? 0 Go to top Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
· #7 Posted October 27, 2021 · Report post On 10/25/2021 at 0:15 PM, Stripernut1 said: Could not make it away for a day of fishing this weekend, but was able to get away for a few hours yesterday and ran out to the Connecticut River. The water was at a very fishable level. It was just me, the fish, and a great blue heron (looking for handouts). The tally came to a number of big chubs, a bunch of smallmouth, and 2 keeper-size walleye. Dropped a few fish and had an (I believe) pike try to eat one of my smallmouth at my feet... No luck tossing any of the bigger pike lures I had with me and was sad to donate a big inlines spinner to the rocks on the bottom... But that is fishing! The sun went down and so did the temperature and I did not get any hits in the dark. Was this north of paper city or south of it? 0 Go to top Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
· #8 Posted October 27, 2021 · Report post Quote Was this north of paper city or south of it? I am guessing that Paper City is Turners Falls? If it is South. 0 Go to top Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
· #9 Posted October 27, 2021 · Report post Paper City is Holyoke. 0 Go to top Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
· #10 Posted October 27, 2021 · Report post 14 hours ago, Stripernut1 said: Have you been getting down there? Barely at all. Between uncooperative weather and too many obligations fishing has taken a distant back seat for me this year. 0 Go to top Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
· #11 Posted October 27, 2021 · Report post Very sad... 0 Go to top Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
· #12 Posted October 27, 2021 · Report post Quote Paper City is Holyoke. Not that far South... 0 Go to top Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
· #13 Posted October 28, 2021 · Report post 18 hours ago, Stripernut1 said: Very sad... Okay, I made it sound bleak but the real issue is that I can’t stop playing disc golf. Still sad but my own doing 0 Go to top Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
· #14 Posted October 29, 2021 · Report post Quote Okay, I made it sound bleak but the real issue is that I can’t stop playing disc golf. Still sad but my own doing I love a good game of Ultimate (been a very long time), but disc golf is not for me... I work on accurately tossing something with each cast I make and the reward (most days) is much greater than having a disc land in a basket. But to each his own... 0 Go to top Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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