02-20-2015, 02:24 PM
[#0000FF]The combination of low water years and excessive harvest by others has rendered my top minnow venues mostly unproductive the last couple of years. I got in one minor harvest early last year but on my next trip there were no minnows to be seen in the almost dry pond...and the area around the pond was trashed.
Ditto for Farmington Bay...up your way. For a couple of years...about 5 years ago...there was great abundance of chubs and baby carp in the outlet channels during the fall drawdown. But the last two years have been virtually zero. But on my last trip I did get 3 huge carp in one throw of my new cast net...and it quickly became a "hole-y net" from the twisting and turning of those spiny beasts.
PM me around the first of April and we will get together for some minnowing...such as it is.
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Ditto for Farmington Bay...up your way. For a couple of years...about 5 years ago...there was great abundance of chubs and baby carp in the outlet channels during the fall drawdown. But the last two years have been virtually zero. But on my last trip I did get 3 huge carp in one throw of my new cast net...and it quickly became a "hole-y net" from the twisting and turning of those spiny beasts.
PM me around the first of April and we will get together for some minnowing...such as it is.
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