bigoutdoors

I met up with Jay at Norwich Harbor monday, we both had high hopes on catching stripers. We were the first boat out, so we had to find the fish, no problem, I have been there before. We moved around to the spots they like to hang before sun-up. Located a few on the fish finder but no luck. When the sun started coming up we trolled umbrella rigs down river past the oil company, no luck, didn't mark a fish. Trolled around the harbor with no luck. We ended up finding them up the Shetucket River by the RR bridge. There were 4 other boats there. One was flyfishing and tagging stripers and doing very well. Another was trolling and doing good. Another was casting jigs doing ok. Another was casting jigs also but not doing well. We started trolling. Jay was using the same rig the other boat was but not producing so we switched to jigs. After a while Jay had one, me nothing, just bouncing off them. After a few more passes, Jay gets another, me nothing. No one can say that we didnt try but it was a Monday thing, everything we did was wrong. We ended up losing 3 umbrella rigs and 3-4 jigs. We did get to see a bald eagle and a harbor seal. I couldn't get pics because my new batteries were dead in the camera .

Oh, if Jay ever tells you he doesn't ice fish, he's lying. I saw it first hand, he caught a good size chunk of ice,lol
I had a really good time, just wished the fish were cooperative but will give it hell next time.

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Thanks for the post. I had plans to hit the boat show sat and the river on sunday but they did not work out. The seal you saw probably had something to do with the bite. But at least you got out and was able to wet a line.. keep the reports coming

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