Coyote Hunting Colchester CT

This week I went out to Babcock WMA coyote hunting. With 1524 acres, there is a lot of area to roam and good way to get out for some exercise. Last year I wasn't able to get out much due to the heavy snow fall, but we all got plenty exercise shoveling. I just got a new electronic call with a remote control from Cabelas. The remote works fine, but I would like more volume out of it. No luck yet, but I'll keep trying.

Deer Hunting Dec 2012 Worthington MA

I went deer hunting with my father in Massachusetts this year. I was fortunate this year, I got a doe permit for Zone 4N. I have a spot there that has produced some good does over the last few years. Every year I have hunted there with a doe permit I have been able to fill it.

This year I got a 130lb doe there. The DEP guy that registered the deer said this was the oldest deer he has seen taken in a few years. She only had one molar left and that was cracked.

The picture below show the stump I hide in when I watch this run.

Colchester Hunting Nov 16

Fishing and soccer season are over and hunting season has begun. I took a course and and missed the turkey season this year. The good news is that my tree stand survived the snow storm. How has the acorn crop been this year? Where I hunt there aren't any acorns, so hopefully we'll have more deer movement this year.

Cochester area fishing w/o August 1

This week I went to Amston Lake, WIlliams Lake, Powers Lake and Red Cedar Lake. At Amston Lake I caught a lot of fish, 24 to be exact, but all were small. Have you noticed that some days it seems like only the big or medium or small fish are biting? On this day t was all the 6 -10 inch fish and a lot of tails bit off the grubs.
The next day I went to Lake Williams and I had a great day with big fish. I caught (4) 2 pound bass and a 4 pound 12 oz largemouth as well. All the big fish were caught in the weeds with senkos and I got a bunch on the way back with spinner bait, all told I landed 21 fish.
Matt and I fished Powers Lake with some success. The lake seem to be the same depth as Williams, without the cover. They don't seem to be very interested in Senkos and we caught almost all the fish on lures and spinners. Matt worked on catching as many sunfish as he could and caught 13 sunfish and small bass. I used bigger bait stuff and caught 10 fish. All mine were small except for a monster bass that hit a crank bait and weighed out at 5 pounds 2 ounces.
On Saturday I had to be home by 10 so I went to Red Cedar Lake. It is small enough for me to fish it well in 3-4 hours. I caught 11 fish with two 2 pound fish. For some reason I am not doing as well this year at Red Cedar. I think it is getting fished pretty heavily this year. I have seen the same groups of fishermen there multiple times during my trips there. So I assume they are fishing there a lot.

Colchester Area Fishing W/O July 25th

Another week of vacation spent fishing almost every morning from 5:30 to 11am. I fished Red Cedar, Savin, Williams, Amston and Pickerel Lake.
Lake Williams was very good, I caught 31 fish including a 4lb 7oz bass. Most of the big fish were caught using a variety of senkos. On the way back to the dam I fished a spinnerbait along the East shore and caught 8-9 small to medium bass that way.

I wanted to try Savin Pond again on a day with good weather. The last time the weather and the fishing weren't very good. Well this time the weather was good, but the fishing wasn't. I only caught 4 fish and had very few bites.

Red Cedar lake gave up 14 fish, about average for the lake, the biggest weighed 4lb 4oz. Nothing was particularly effective and I tried senkos, jigs and spinnerbait.

Amston Lake has been different this year. I am not catching fish in the North cove this year, but having pretty good luck fishing the shallow area in the middle of the lake. I noticed that I was getting spinnerbait hits on the drop more than during the retrieval. So I switched to a heavy jig and bounced some super grubs on the bottom. This is how I caught most of the fish including a 4' 7oz bass and a 2 pounder.

On Sunday I went to Pickerel Lake and caught 13 fish. All the fish I caught (pickerel, perch and bass) were less than 10" inches long. There was one fisherman flipping worms under the docks that said he caught a 6 pounder that morning. Another boat that was coming out when I was leaving said the two of them caught a total of 13 small fish. They said that the lake is just too weedy this time of the year to catch anything good.

Colchester Area Fishing July 18th

This was a very hot week, with temperatures in the 90's every day. I fished Red Cedar Lake, Amston Lake, Powers Lake and Savin Pond. Fishing was less than average with no big fish caught.
Matt and I fished Red Cedar. We fished from 5:30 to about 10am. He caught 10 and I caught 13 fish. Almost all the fish I caught while using the Baby Bass Senko fished wacky style.
Amston Lake fishing was good. I caught 19 fish with a combination of senkos. By 9am they weren't hitting the senkos so I started fishing deep with jigs. I usually don't have much luck with deep water, but this day was different. I caught 8 more fish bouncing the jig on the bottom.
On Saturday I went to Powers Lake. I had 3 bites right in a row witht the baby bass and promptly lost it on the 3 bite due to a faulty knot. Tying a bad not was bad enough, but I was really upset with myself when I discoverd that was my last baby bass, I forgot to restock them. It gets worse, they would hit any other senko I had. They wouldn't hit the spinner bait either, so I went to the jigs and caught 9 with that. Most were 6-8 in bass. The biggest fish was a 16" pickerel.
Sunday I went to Savin Pond and did not do very well. I caught 5 small largemouth and a 15" pickerel. I sure hope this heat wave breaks soon.

Colchester Area Fishing July 11th Week

Good weather for fishing this week. On Monday Matt and I went to Lake Williams. It was the first fishing trip of the year for Matt and he made the most of it. He caught the first fish of the day and had a real hot streak going with a red senko. At one point he had 7 fish to my 3, but when they stopped hitting the red, he lost momentum. Matt ended up with 9 bass and I caught 16. I got the biggest fish, a 2lb 14oz bass.

On Wednesday I went to Red Cedar Lake and caught 16 bass, pickerel and perch. I have been trying out the crank bait lures and they accounted for the perch and pickerel. Most of the bass were caught on the smoke senko, but none of the bass were big.

Friday was the day I went to Amston Lake. Using a mix of senkos I caught 24 small to medium bass. They were not interested in the crank bait lures.

Sunday was spent on Powers Lake, it was very crowded. There were at least 6 fishing boats/kayaks there besides mine. The fishing wasn't very good, all I caught was 7 small fish using crank baits and senkos. After a week of use, I am going to put the crank baits away and try deep jigs and spinner baits next week. As the summer is really starting to heat up I need to go into deeper water.