Posted
by Mark G on
Croton Reservoir Get-Together
Another successful
NYBass Get-Together, although the fishing was tough!
We got off to an inauspicious start, at the diner that never closes was closed
when I pulled up at
The low 60º's air temps and the high 70º's surface temps created a low wispy
fog that screamed topwater. Gregg and I anticipated a hot topwater bite that
never materialized. We threw jitterbugs and Spittin Image, but got no strikes.
Fish were blowing up all around us, but not on our baits.
We switched up to soft plastics and the bite remained slow. I got a 2 lb keeper
while reeling in a chartruese and white laminate 5" kinami, and another
small largemouth off a deep weed edge, but that was it for the first 5 hours!
It wasn't until we got all the way down to the Rt 129 bridge pilings that we
got any more fish. Gregg pulled two largemouth off the
pilings, one decent keeper...
Gregg's best fish of the day
...and one short.
And that was it! 
We threw soft plastics, cranks, spinnerbaits, jigs, tailspinners, tubes and
everything else we could think of. We threw on inner weed edges, outer weed
edges, riprap, pilings, flats, drop offs...everywhere, but the fishing was too
tough! Oh well, the company was great and any time on the water with Gregg is a
treat. I suspected a slow bite with the high bluebird skies and the slow
fishing recently. I was hoping the Croton would make a better accounting of
itself, but not today.
After the fishing we met up with everyone at the Pizza Shop and had a blast! I
have yet to meet an NYBasser I ddin't like, and meeting
the new guys like Steve (Res Dog), Telcoguru (John), Papa John, Flatcoat
(Craig), and Maximus10k was great. All were great fun to b.s and eat pizza
with. I hope I get to fish with each and every one of you personally. It was
also great to see the usuall gang like Basshunter (Pete), John G, Gregg, Jeff
BVS, Vic, Pete L, and Basserachi. It was also great to meet a couple of
Basserachi's friends who showed up on their boat and also shared the yuks with us at the pizza place.
There were some serious laughs on the water including Vic yelling, "Hey
Mark, nice reservoir you got here!" after some tough
fishing of his own. Sorry Vic, we'll do this on Kensico next time 
Special thanks to Basshunter for coming from so far away to get here, and to
Flatcoat (Craig) for meeting him in a faimilar place and leading him to the
closed diner.
Also special thanks to Max for picking up Res Dog (Steve) on his way up. I
really wanted to meet both of you, and was glad I got a chance to do so.
Hopefully we can fish together soon. Max, let's pull a toothy or two off the
railroad tressle bridge. Steve, hopefully I'll see you out in the suds this
summer and on the reservoir system again soon.
Super special thanks to Basserachi (Mark) for all the work
getting extra boats in place so people could fish together. This whole
thing was his idea, and without his hauling boats to and fro as I called him to
tell him this and that guy was or wasn't coming, this would not have come off
so smoothly.
And always, thanks to John G, Gregg, Frank J, Mike D and everyone else who
keeps this tremendous fishing resource up and running as well as moderaiting it
to make it the wonderful community it is!
To summarize, it was a wonderful day with some wonderful people, and as you'll
soon see, some people caught some nice fish. I'll leave it to them to post
their experiences, but let me whet your appetite with some juicy teasers...
Some big fish, with the lunker being accompanied by a funny photo mishap and
two NYBassers with some skin removed by fiesty fish!
Tight Lines,
Mark
Posted
by Jared C. on
Great report...sorry to
hear there weren't more keepers, but I know sometimes it can be tough. Sorry I
couldn't make the get-together, but it's great to see that everyone had a good
time.
P.S. - ALL diners SHOULD be open at
JC
Posted
by Gregg on
Congratulations Mark
You pulled off a good
one. Thank you, really I know how much effort you had to put in to get it done.
Great sharing a boat with you again.
The morning mist sure looked nice but the topwater non-bite was more comical
then Mark described because every time we moved on they keep hitting the
surface right where we had been. As mark said tried alot of stuff and worked
together good, if I went in Mark went out, I went high Mark worked low, we
worked it hard all day to come away with 4 fish.
Of cause the best part is seeing all your old friends and making some new ones,
and it was good pizza (who wanted eggs anyway, LOL)
Mark's better fish...
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Posted
by TVal on
Sounds like another great
NYBass get together. Also sounds like my morning at Bantam. You would bet
topwater was the ticket, but no go. Nice fish Gregg & Mark.
But I'm wondering if the "Evil Tyrant" has upset the gods. Ramp
closed at Maho, diner closed for this one. Sounds like a pattern.
Tim
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Posted
by Gus V on
well I'm sorry you guys didn't have
more bites but I was out early today a few miles over on the Croton -- near the
railroad trestle -- and I saw the same things: low fog, many fish jumping and
no biting.
well, misery loves company any way. at
least some people had luck.
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Posted
by Pete L on
As usual
, another EXCELLANT NYBASS get-together!!!!!!!!!
Mark G - Great job putting it all together. In-spite of the Diner thats never closed, we managed to at least get our
coffee!!!!
Too bad we couldn`t get the fish to come out and play a little more. Was very
surprised there was NO topwater bite , but we still
managed to get some nice bass into the boat.
Thanks to Basseracci , for rowing me around all day.
We will get out again soon!!!!!!! Not a whole lot of fish ,
but some great laughs and an enjoyable day on the water, including a very
gluttonus bass and the bird of prey from hell!!!! Piece of advise--
- DO NOT FISH IN AREAS WITH LARGE BIRDS SITTING IN OVERHEAD BRANCHES!!!!
Always good to get out with the usual suspects , and
to meet some of the newer guys as well. Hopefully , we
will be able to put a couple more of these together.
Pete
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Posted
by NO LUCK on
Re: Croton Reservoir Get-Together
[QUOTE]Originally
posted by Mark G
We got off to an inauspicious start, at the diner that never closes was closed
when I pulled up at
Reminds me of "Easy Money" when Rodney and Pesci pull into the Diner
and the lights go out and the sign say's " open
23 hours"...LOL...
Glad it worked out...sounds like you guys had a good time...
Posted
by basseracci on
Change the Diner Name !!!
Change the Diner Name
to....
"McDONALD"S DINER"
I had a great time and although the fishing was slow, the event went much better
than I expected...Aside from the diner fiasco, it went off without a hitch and
we made up for that lost breakfast with some great conversation and some extra
pizzas at lunchtime...
It was great to see everyone today...As always it was great to see the regular
dogs like John G, Mark G, Vic, Pete/Basshunter, Jeff BVS, Gregg and most of all
my partner Pete L...And it was great to finally meet the others like Res
Dog/Steve, telcoguru/John, PapaJohn, Maximus, and Flatcoat/John...
I had a blast with pete...After the diner denied me a square breakfast, I had
my doubts about my stamina for the upcoming heated day...But as soon as i saw
that fog on the lake, I thought, I'm gonna slam some topwater, and all will be
well...The topwater never went off...Not even a strike...When we started
marking schools of bait fish suspended at various depths and what seemed to be
arcs in the area, we both went to rattle traps...I had a tick on my first cast
on the way down...Pete then picked up his first fish on what seemed to be his
next cast, also on the way down...His fish was about a 2 lb lmb...A few more
casts, and i connected with one of these corralling fish...Another 2 lb
LMB...Both fish seemed to be lurking over 14 - 18 ft of water...We thought we
were on to something...
At this point things weren't looking great, but they weren't looking too bad
either...Next, Pete connected with a nice LMB on a T-rigged worm...The fish
gave a nice fight but pete, the seasoned fisherman he is, made it look
easy...We netted the fish that easily reached 4 lbs...Nice job Pete...That
reaction bite cooled, and that was that...Topwater and rat-l-traps were done...
After that the soft plastic bites were occasional and mostly from pannies it
seemed...We threw some senkos and assorted T-rigs... I managed a wacky senko
fish that was near or at 2 lbs...It was hard to detect the hit with all the
machine gunner pannies taking shots at my bait, but I managed to hook and boat
him...
After that, it seemed like days before we boated another fish...We fished this
really beautiful rock cliff that had about a 5-7 ft initial ledge, then drops
right off into 50 or more feet...I picked up my nicest fish here on a t-rigged
7" powerworm with a rattling worm weight...This fish was hungry, and i'll
let Pete tell you why...It went about 3.5 lbs...I got him tight to the rock
cliff off the 5 - 7 ft ledge...It was the second in a row for me from that
rocky shoreline, and we thought we were on another pattern...By this time we
could here John G and Jeff whispering to each other in their boat and so we
rowed over to share our tallies for the day thus far...They were not
Croton-esque numbers...
With the heat stroke and malnutrition setting in, we pressed on to the south
shore at about
We rowed back, packed up our massive amounts of gear, and ate up at the pizza
place with the rest of the guys...
I just wanted to say that although the fishing was slow, the time did kind of
fly by...That's because I had great company all around me, and especially in my
boat...Thanks for fishing with me Pete...We'll do better next time...
By the way, my cousin Anthony and my good friend Rich, also fished with us
today in another boat...They had a 4+ LMB a 2 lb LMB, a nice pick and some
yellows....And perhaps the only, if not the most interesting topwater catch of
the day, A SNAKE !!! My cousin caught a snake on his LC popper and they were
screaming and hollering like a bunch of sissies...Needless to say, a life had
to be taken to retrieve that LC...They were an Abbot and Costello routine all
day long !!!
Good Times
Mark
Pete, tell them the worm story and about our encounter with the Teradactyl...
Posted
by Jared C. on
Pete...
DO NOT FISH IN AREAS WITH
LARGE BIRDS SITTIN ON BRANCHES OVERHEAD.......
.......do you mean to imply that this was above and beyond the call of DOODY?
Posted
by Pete L on
Jared - Yes!!! Fortunately , we were about 20' from the shore.
Man , that was a BIG bird!!!!!!!! My wife hates it
when her car gets hit by the mess from a sparrow. This was scary!!!!
Pete
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Posted
by dodgeguy on
glad to hear you guys had a good
time.it's to bad the fish did'nt cooperate.i wish i could have been there but
the wife had to work.
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Posted
by JOHN G on
having fished the day before with Jeff,
I knew fishing would be tough, however, I had a few patterns and you had to
just hang in there.....
well, Jeff and I ended up with a blast as we finally
hit paydirt at a special offshore hump, off the deep weed edges of it, and
after basically an entire morning of slow fishing, we had an incredible flurry
of 6 bass in only 20 minutes!! This being on a slowwwwwwwwww drop senko at
about 14 or 15 feet depth ( the edge of the visible
weeds........
and this pattern culminated in , I'm surprised no one
mentioned it, a huge 6.1 pound LM!!!! Now the funniest part, is that Jeff
snapped the picture, and I said to him, are you okay with that picture, do you
want another one, and he insisted, nahhh, picture is fine.....so he goes home
before the pizza lunch to print it out and .....HOLEY
MOLEY, he came up with a crotch shot of me with barely a wisp of our giant
fish!!!
tomorrow I will try to post it up here after I re-size
it for the board......
Jeff and I had 8 fish total, but amongst that total was the 6, another 4
pounder and a 3.5.....so we really had some quality fish despite the fact that
in between fish number 2 and number 8 we put in a good 4 or 5 grueling hours of
not one single fish!
all fish were either on senko or again, the blade
bait...and all fish were in 15 to 25 feet of water average depth, same as we
found the day before.
Croton is an excellent fishery which like many places is kind of tough now, however, the potential for size is always there.
as for the get together itself: it was just fantastic!
Great to meet a whole bunch of new guys, the Reseroir Dogs as I will now call
them! another great group of NyBassers.....
this was a really fun thing to do, and definitely
worth a repeat.....
Muchos Kudos to Mark G, the current reigning number one Social Butterfly on
this board! LOL....
and also, I would like to give special thanks to Mark D (Basserachi), who
kindly let several people use his many boats....Mark had to move the boats
himself to one spot, so he really went all out to provide boating for the many
guys that participated in this thing today.......
also, thanks to Jeff for basically rowing me around the entire weekend, and
helping me catch some giant fish, thanks buddy......
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Posted
by HugeFish4 on
Wow, a closed diner? No
wonder you guys didn't slay them! LOL! Sounds like you guys made the best of a
beautiful day. Now, I don't feel as bad about my one fish at
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Posted
by Flatcoat on
Great Time!
As you all know, I am a
new member to the NYBASS family.
After meeting everyone this morning and then for lunch in the afternoon, I felt
like I'd known all the guys for years! Thanks to all for a warm welcome and a
really great day all around.
Mark G. - You were right about BassHunter, even a slow day on the water is fun
with him in the boat!
Looking forward to the next outing....
Posted
by MikeYac on
Good to see you guys had
a great time!
No matter how bad the fishing is, its always good when
your with great company!
Sorry I missed it.
See if we can get another one together soon.
Good fishing to all!
MikeYac
Posted
by HugeFish4 on
I love it when John catches a 6.1lb bass and complains about how slow it is out there right now! John, that is 12 Whaley bass! LOL!
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Posted
by Pete L on
John - Didn`t mention
your 6 pounder, because i didn`t want to steal the only thunder of the day!!!
I didn`t get to see the fish , but we all heard John
yell when he caught it!!!!!!!!!!!
You can tell from 1/2 a mile away when John gets excited.
Jeff is now barred from being the official event photographer!!!!LOL.
Pete
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Posted
by InlExp on
Sounds like fun..
to bad they weren't hitting, but
these things are as much about the comraderie as the fishing. Hope to make one
of these one day. I will tell you guys the fishing on
Crompond last night....
(will a post report later today)
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Posted
by MikeM on
John,
I heard you and I was in
Kudos to Mark G. for all his hard work and enthusiasm,you
are quickly becoming the Don King of the board.
MikeM
Posted
by res dog on
real nice get together
Now that was the 1st time
in 25 years that I have ever seen that diner closed, and was saying to Maximus,
{ its a good thing we bought some peanuts!lol} I want to thank Mark G and
bassaracci for putting this thing together, it was a lot of work coordinating
and all in all everyone had a great time. Thanks Max for going the extra mile
and picking me up also, we had a great time out there even though it was tough.
When we started out I thought we would work the shade zone and stay out of the
sun and by keeping southeast along the shores we could do that till about
It was a lot of fun fishing with maximus, it was tough
out there, and the croton was a bit stingy.
It was great finally meeting all of the guys also,
had a great get together Mark G!
ResDog
Posted
by maximus10k on
Steve you forgot to mention the huge pickerel that tried to eat your hand and almost succeded. It was a pleasure to fish Steve who is a great guy and a fisherman that someone can learn alot from. During one of the tuffest patterns on Croton he still put togther a bag of 5 fish just under 17lbs! I can't say I did that well with only 3 shorts brought into the boat. I have a few pictures I'm going to post later, a nice 4.5 LM Steve caught along weedbeds by a couple submerged islands. And a pickerel with a head the size of an alligator! It was great to meet the guys, and special thanks to Steve for having me on his boat and Mark G for putting everthing together.
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Posted
by basshunter on
Well another fine
get-together.
Flatcoat we fished our a$$ off, hope the next time we have better fishing...the
company was as always tops, the Fanseca Cigar was awsome thanx again.
I didn't make it back out the wind started to pick up, I was thinking about
fighting that wind with out a motor NOT! went home
hung out with the family in the pool (cool)
I't was great to seen you guy's againg, and meet new members, I hope we can do
this soon I had a blast.
John G next time you should fish with top coat he takes a very nice photos, I'll send all the pics to Mike D so he can post them
I can't work this thing.
Mark you did a great job....thank you.
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Posted
by PapaJohn on
Even with no fish, it was fun
The only fish I managed
was a bluegill not much bigger than the Rapala it took.
Just had to thank everyone involved.
Mark G., new social coordinator, thanks for organizing this. Really the only
bad thing all day was the diner being closed.
Telcoguru, thanks for the hospitality on your boat. You rowed my butt all over
that northern arm, and we tried everything. The bass just wouldn't cooperate.
Also thanks for being so concerned, acting fast, and not laughing too much when
I fell backwards into the drink. At least I was a lot cooler while my backside
dried off. I'm glad you managed a bass on a very tough
day.
Thanks to everyone else for making it such a good event, whatever you did, move
boats, pick up people, etc.
I kept saying, somebody's going to figure it out
today. It will probably be deep, and/or in the weeds. The only fish off our
boat was Telco's off a bridge piling in deep water. I also figured John G and
Jeff stood a good chance at the best fish of the day. Turned
out that way, even if they caught all their fish late in the game.
Regardless, this was my first big NYBass get-together, and it was a lot of fun.
Let's try this one again for the Fall bite.
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