thames river norwich

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with the ponds being cover with ice and not safe to walk on we went to norwich harbor for stripers.when we got there the tide was going out and just about ebb tide,it started slow untill we found the fish then look out,it wasn't as great as it had been a couple days ago.but you never got bored.i took a friend along that had never fished for stripers on light tackel before,i think he is hooked now!along with the good fishing,and good conversation with other fishermen,we had a seal swimming around and was fishing himself,he must have caught 10 stripers himself and was enjoying them while floating on his back. i brought along some of maniacs baits that i won on the nascar contest.they were the 3"salt sticks.i was useing the watermelon brown/multi flake,and bill was useing the predator.i must say they are tough!we each only used one,and we caught between 30-40 apiece the adverage size of them were between16-23" my largest was 271/2" just short by a 1/2" for the smoker heres bills first striper ever and one of mine

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