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Beast! Youll get that 31 inch sooner or later. You know how to target the big girls!

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Nice Lakers. Would have kept the biggun for a meal :)

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nah too rare here. plenty of 20-24" plenty of meat on them.

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Congrats, that is a really nice laker and I think your right about the available forage. The alewife is probably one of the big fish keys but an abundant plankton population is a required food source for their numbers and I don't believe it's sufficient but it can be increased by pumping water from the river into the Valley. It's also necessary for the state to consider regulations if we want big fish and that should include doing what you did, take a picture and put it back for another day. Here is a link of a Ct. study that is to me an eye-opener and the lake that I told you about had the numbers of big trout go way down.

http://www.ct.gov/deep/lib/deep/fish...gt_2014-15.pdf

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here's one from saturday, had two like this and NJSquatch had a nicer one about 26" had about 5-6 hits too that didn't hook up. not too bad for a few hours. back at it today looking for that 30"+ monster.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/photos.fish...0b0c93ec6e_800

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My first non-trolled laker!

Not sure why they get a bad wrap for not fighting. She pulled hard the whole way up from 70 fow.

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Nice fish guys.. Hoping to do some deep water jigging asap

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Wow!!!! You will get a 30 inch Laker today! Make sure you kiss it goodbye. Fish that size hard been declining rapidly for as long as I can remember. Whack em dude!!!:D

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It was total overcast and neither me or xlyak had ANY action at all!!! I'm waiting for the sun before the next attempt! :mad: