Headed to the lower CT River this morning with my buddy Spanky. The plan was to do some T&W trolling T-Man style and throw some of my new topwater plugs if the fish seemed cooperative.
What a morning, we banged over 30 stripers on the combo of tubes and plugs with a healthy number of blues to 12lbs mixed in.
The heavy overcast and wind was just the ticket for getting the fish to the top and we cleaned up!! What a blast with 2-3 fish on each drift knocking our surface plugs right out of the water. More than a few hit and missed 2-3 times on a retrieve just to finally swallow the plug only feet from the boat.
Our tube trolling and casting was done in 4 to 12 feet of water and we spent 3 hours hammering them on the same 1/4 mile drift.
Here's some pics....
Spanky with first tube fish of the day...
T-Man Scores on the T&W
The blues we fat... no wonder they were hitting our plugs while still having a mouth full of bunker
Frank with a typical topwater fish today
