Yep... I launched the boat today.
Humminbird has a new update out for my electronics, and I have been dying to try them out. I figured I could kill 2 birds with one stone and get some scouting in at the same time. I launched from Rocky Hill around 10 and headed north towards the coves. Along the way, I checked out some of the wintering holes for cats. I wanted to check out the new Down Imaging updates and figured that would be a good place to start. As part of the update, I had to reset the unit back to factory default... It's going to take a little time on the water for me to get it dialed back in the way I like it. At first glance, I really like the new features. I have much more control of the sensitivity, scroll speed and there are some new color pallette's to play with. I slowed down at the first hole and flipped the transducer switch on. The cats were right where they should have been, even with the water up 11 feet above normal... They were there in good numbers
I continued north and took a look at some submerged trees... This is where the udgrades really impressed me
I made my way up to Wethersfield Cove. It wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting. Obviously, the parking lot is under water and the channel has opened up but the ice along the edges was still pretty thick. These picures are from under the 91 bridge looking into the cove:
It looks like the river will start dropping by Friday morning. With the cold temps we'll have ove the weekend, I'm thiunking we'll be back on the cove by Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest.
I poked around on the way home and looked in White Oaks as well. I was also pleasantly surprised at how well things held up there. There was quite a bit of debris coming down the river so I just took my time and cruised along. There were a ton of ducks, mergansers and even a few cormorants along the way. I saw 5 different bald eagles between Rocky Hill and Hartford and even found a new nest that wasn't there last spring... Pretty cool to see. That makes 8 nests that I know of alonmg the river.
