1st Time Fishin' in V-20
 

Got tried of waitng for the Connecticut River to go down so I can get the boat in the river for stripers so today I took it to Crystal Lake in Ellington Ct it's a small but excellent trout lake it's one 1 of 5 that is a trophy trout lakes in the state and it's less than 15 minutes from here I used to troll there a lot but I have no kicker so we drifted with shiners in 3 hours we caught 11 trout the largest was 3 1/2 lbs and 22 1/2 inches long that my son caught. Next week Blackfish opens so....Down to the shore...Ted *http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...2inchtrout.jpg *http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...PDR_0004_1.jpg * http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...PDR_0003_1.jpg

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Nice I love eating them trout love to smoke them too, especially the lakers

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i'll be the first one to admit that i dont know the first thing about freshwater fishin...what the hell are those fish lookin things? that first one a salmon?

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That makes me want a trout sammich!!! BAD!!!!! :o

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Nice trout Ted. You'll be needing an Ark pretty soon if this rain don't let up sometime soon. :(

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I wish some of the trout holes were closer to my hometown. About 2 hours drive minimum. Hard to beat on the table! What's the size limit requirements there?

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I'll anwser the first question It's a male rainbow trout and the smaller one is female brown trout the males as they mature the jaws get long and curl simular to a salmon. Here in Ct there 5 trophy trout lakes all have a 2 trout limit that has a 16" min size all other must be released. This place is only 200 acres but around 1900 this was a stone quarry that they struck so much water that the place filled up to a depth of 55 feet and along the south side with a depthfinder there is the last place that was worked there is a vertical wall that goes from 53' to 13' in less than 10 '. When I had a 17' foot Starcraft Tri-hull we trolled there everyweek at least 3 times a week and pulled up some real nice trout up to 7 pounds... july 2003 trolling 25' down with a silver spoon I caught a 6.1 lbs largemouth bass....It's a nice plce to fish and swim... I found a few pictures fishing from the old Tri-hull 1976 Starcraft Capri with a 1974 Johnson 85hp we fished everywhere with it .... http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...PDR_0093_1.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...PDR_0078_1.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...PDR_0077_1.jpg

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At Niantic Bay 2002 http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...PDR_0096_1.jpg http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...PDR_0112_1.jpg

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HA!!! I had an old starcraft like that that I cut the bow rider out and made it into a center console. It was a fun little boat and rode extremly dry because of those bow "shelves".

Ill see if I can dig up a pic!


Here it is. You can see where I was cutting the front apart on the bottom. I dont have any after pics. It was alot nicer as a CC. ;)


http://www.forumpictureprocessor.com.../starcraft.jpg

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stinkman, did you cut that one up while wearing the thong ? BTW, nice fish blu

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Naw...aint no fun getting fiberglass in the crack. :o