Relive Fishing the Norwalk Islands

Relive 'Fishing the Norwalk Islands'

Jim doesn't have a lot of instrumentation set up in his new(er) boat so I turned the Strava App on my watch on figured I would look at it later to see where we went.  Relive picked it up, too. We got skunked and I lost two of my favorite lures. However, when we got back to the dock we were talking to another fisherman who told where and how to fish for stripers. Going to try that on Sunday. 

Last day on the Cabonga and I had to let this monster go.

Caught this 6 lb Walleye trolling a worm rig on the bottom in 14' of water. It was his/her lucky day due to slot size. 

Bite came on this afternoon

Fished all morning and my dad caught one Walleye. My dad caught the first Pike of the trip but it was just a little "Hammer Handle."

Then he caught two keeper Walleye, back to back. 

Finally, I got on the board with this nice pike. Later, I caught two more keeper Walleyes. 

Big Laker on the big water of the Cabonga

Initially, caught a smaller but good eating sized lake trout before lunch. 

After lunch, in 100 feet of water with my lure at 80 feet, I caught an 8 lb Lake Trout. 

All the lakers, this trip we caught by one lure. A red eye spoon dressed as a perch with a red flash!

8 lb Walleye

Caught this 8 lb Walleye trolling a jig. Since slot limits are still in effect, it was too big to keep so I had to let it go. 

Catching walleyes

We must have caught 30 walleyes but only 3 were keepers. 

Old fish pics

Nice laker today

Lost one at boat but caught this one a half hour later. 

Two Pike on Shepaug

Took my neighbor's son with me. He got skunked but was a good net man. 

Got these Pike on the same lure!

First Pike

With summer hours in effect at work I headed home at 2 PM, Jim met me at the house and we went out on Lake Lililonah.  The boat was running nicely, by the way.  My father took it to Cabelas and they put new spark plugs in it.

We headed up the Shepaug to Pike Alley. Jim said he saw a pretty good sized pike come out of the water near the shore.  We fished the area pretty hard but no luck.  I was casting a pike spinner when this Northern struck at the side of the boat. It was feisty and really fought back. Jim netted it and, had a quick photo op and let Free Willy go.

Boat wasn't working well but Bucky was the star of the show

Heading for the first time on Lake Lililonah there was something wrong with the boat engine and were only able to go about 10 miles an hour.  I had my son and my neighbor's son with me and just went up river for bit and started fishing.  Bucky, casted towards a rock wall at the water's edge and hooked this nice small mouth bass. He also got a nice yellow perch, too.  Brodie and I got skunked.