I went fishing with my friend Dave Pickering yesterday. We took a trip out to the Connecticut River to fish for trophy carp. The Connecticut River is known for having huge carp up to and over 30 pounds. Any fish under 15 pounds is considered a small fish for the river.
We met up with one of Dave's friend that lives in the area named Mike. He had baited up the water and got to the " swim" a couple hours before us. The fishing was extremely slow despite perfect fishing weather. It rained hard on us a couple of times and stayed cloudy most of the day. There was a fairly strong wind and the river is so wide there was a chop on the water producing white caps. The only fish caught was by Mike. It was close to 19 pounds.
Mike caught his fish as we were packing up to leave at 3 pm. Thinking our luck was going to change we set up again and fished ( unsuccessfully) for another 2 hours. We packed up for good at 5 and headed toward home.
On the way back we stopped at a spot on the Blackstone River near the MA/ RI line. He got there about 6:15 and stayed until after dark. He did quite well on the Blackstone. Between Dave and myself we got 5. The biggest one was a scrapper Dave caught about 10 pounds. We had a couple other hits so it was a very interesting 3 hours.
I would like to say that stopping at the Blackstone saved our day from being a total waste of time. The truth is the day flew by anyway. Even though we didn't have any luck on the Conn River I was shown a new spot that has huge fish ( usually ). On top of this when hanging out with a good friend time goes by really quickly anyway. During the car ride to/from the river ( about 1 1/2 hours ) Dave and I compared notes about what has worked for us striper fishing this year and what hasn't. I complained about things that bothered me about little league baseball. We got to the fishing hole in no time.
Don't get me wrong, catching the fish on the Blackstone and learning another spot just made the day that much better.
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