For those of you that missed my first post, Coco Key Waterbury CT, is a brand new Water Resort and Indoor Water Park at the Holiday Inn on East Main Street, Waterbury. The park is having its grand opening this Thursday night (October 3rd), and is currently booking birthday parties.

I was lucky enough to get an early invite to the water park before the grand opening, and after spending some time there I can tell you that it is simply amazing! If you have kids and you want them to have the birthday party of a lifetime, take them to Coco Key! It is in your best interest to contact them early as a representative from the park has informed me that birthday times are booking fast! Since the park is just opening they are offering some great deals on birthday party packages as well as stay and play packages.

For more information about booking your next b-day party visit the link below or contact the park directly…

Book a birthday party online or Call CoCo’s Group Sales Manager at 203.706.1048

Date: 9/21/08

Since the season was winding down on Cedar Lake we decided to take the boat out of the water last weekend and make a trip to the sounds for some striper, bluefish, and porgy fishing before we dropped the boat off at the marina to be winterized. We launched out of the Baldwin Bridge launch in Old Saybrook aroun 5:30AM, but didn’t make it out into open water until 6:45AM since the fog was in thick and visibility was only about 5 feet!

At one point a 50 foot boat crossed in front of us about 10 feet off our bow and we barely saw it.  Thank god for GPS otherwise we would have never made it to the sound… As soon as the sun came up the fog burned off and we were able to open it up and head out to the eastern rip.  We three way’d eels on two rods and and fresh bunker chunks on one rod from 30-50 feet.  Almost immediately we hooked up with a nice bluefish that gave a pretty good fight and weighted about 12 lbs on the boga grips.

Here is a shot of my friend Robbie with his catch:

We had 2 or three more big hits on the eels, but nothing else was boated on the rip. The fresh bunker was left untouched the whole day. After an hour of drifting we moved to Long Sand Shoal to try our luck, but nothing was biting there either.

A short trip to Outer Hatchetts Reef and we were drifting live eels and bunker chuck with no success again.  At this point the tide went slack and we decided to switch into porgy mode catching 20-30 porgies and about the same number of small black sea bass using clams and squid. It was coming up on lunch time so we decided to tube and worm with t-man custom tackle tubes and sandworms up the shoreline back to the dock and dine, but never had a strike on those either. We ate lunch and headed back out to the eastern rip and tried our luck with our last couple eels.

We hooked up pretty quick when we got back to the rip, but it turned out to be a skate.

It was getting late and the sun, water, and fishing had beat us up all day, and we still needed to scrub down the boat and drop it off at the marina, so we headed back to the launch.

Overall we had a fun day, even though we didn’t have the best luck…

Splashing good times await the whole family at CoCo Key, where every day is a balmy 84 degrees!

CoCo Key water resort, located at the Holiday Inn Waterbury, offers a year-round escape with a 50,000 square foot indoor water park that will delight children and the young at heart of all ages! With three 40-foot body and raft slides, Adventure River, an incredible play island, activity pool, indoor/outdoor jacuzzi, Key Quest arcade, Wet Rooster Bar, and more. CoCo Key guarantees the weather will be perfect, so join us for a your next tropical adventure!

So if the weather has got you down and you can’t be fishing, take the kids to see the new water park this winter, you will be glad you did…

The ad also says that you can purchase a variety of Day Passes to CoCo Key Connecticut online at:


www.cocokeywaterresort.com.