Nice day on the water with my Dad today. We launched from the 225 ramp and went upstream. We were both using spinnerbaits - he chartreuse and me white. I landed a decent pickerel but Dad landed the fish of the day... a nice pike. I took a pic of it with my cell phone, but it came out lousy. Just a quick report and thanks. I never fished spinnerbaits in the past and after reading so much about them here I committed to learning how to fish them.
Anyone else hit the river recently?
Charlie
Anyone else hit the river recently?
Charlie
Nice day on the water with my Dad today. We launched from the 225 ramp and went upstream. We were both using spinnerbaits - he chartreuse and me white. I landed a decent pickerel but Dad landed the fish of the day... a nice pike. I took a pic of it with my cell phone, but it came out lousy. Just a quick report and thanks. I never fished spinnerbaits in the past and after reading so much about them here I committed to learning how to fish them.
Anyone else hit the river recently?
Charlie
Awesome! Pike... thats terrific! I hit the river for the first time a few weeks ago. I already told my little story about my trip in the jig thread, but long story short; We went fishing for pike, didn't catch any, but my brother landed 2 largemouth, the second was a lunker.
I have been planning to go back and after hearing your success about catching pike I will be going back that much quicker! Nice job on the pickeral too!
Pike and pickerel are cold water fish, hence why a lot of people catch them through the ice, so I wouldn't be surprised if you started to have better luck once the weather starts cooling down. I think I've only caught 1 or 2 pickerel this summer, but in the spring, I couldn't keep them off my line.