Tuckahoe Joe

Good looking fish!

Congrats on an awesome fish!

The DNR stocks trout in a lot of the creeks around here. Is it possible that it's a stocked creek?

Sometimes I have stuff tied on from a week before. Before I fish I'll give the knot a few good pulls to see if it breaks or slips. Never had a problem.

LOL...I'm sorry but I'm still laughing about this.

I dunno man but the mouth on that thing is ridiculous!

Man, you hit the nail on the head. While fishing I've seen countless beavers and bald eagles, a huge otter out of the water rolling around on the grass like a playful dog, turtles the size of trash can lids...freaking majestic stuff. This is only my second season bass fishing and it's brought me up close and personal with nature. Heck, the other day driving to the lake, there was a deer in the opposite lane and it actually ran towards me, jumped, ran across the hood of my car, and kept on going. Bass smashing topwater lures, huge chain pickerel pulling drag like nobody's business...I wouldn't have experienced any of this if I hadn't taken up fishing. As for other women giving me flak about fishing, I don't have to worry about that. I work six days a week and all I really only have time for is my work and fishing and fortunately for me, my wife loves to fish. I moved last year and all my friends are about 2 hours away. I don't make new friends very easily so if I'm not working, I'm fishing with my wife. She's my world and I'm hers. If she's working I'll go by myself and she'll tease me about finding some floozy to fish with or if I'm working I'll tell her she'll just have to find some other guy to take her but we both know we're kidding.

Someone told me about that but that's the first I've seen of the video. Dude's lucky he didn't get ate.

I love catching pickerel. A buddy of mine caught one a couple days ago that looked like a freaking baseball bat. I'd rather catch bass but a big pickerel will put up a heck of a fight. Like others have said they'll bite everything and anything but I catch them most on spinnerbaits, crankbaits (lipless and squarebills), and soft plastics.

I'll use a Roostertail from time to time. I've had them catch fish for me when the bass wouldn't bite anything else. It's also nice that several other species seem to like them and you can pick up a bonus fish or 2. For bass I use 1/4 oz. When they stock trout in the fall/winter in the creek by my house, a 1/8 Roostertail is my go-to lure. Unfortunately I have a bad habit of getting them snagged, whether on the bottom or in trees and I don't have any right now but trout stocking time is coming so I'll be stocking up soon.

I don't have a scale so I dunno the weight. Caught it about an hour before sunrise on a black Jitterbug.

Welcome! Don't really know Columbia but where were you from on the Eastern Shore and where did you fish? I'm in Ridgely in Caroline County. I mainly fish at Tuckahoe State Park, Smithville Lake and Unicorn Lake but I'm always looking for new spots to try out.

That's funny right there! Someone told me about the rice thing before but I thought they were full of it. Not planning on dropping my phone in the lake any time soon but it's good to know this works.

Awesome fish...I always look forward to these posts!

Awesome fish!

Wow...Sandy Point State Park is like 30 min from my house and I didn't hear anything about this. That's pretty messed up. It says the owner of the boat is being charge with the illegal fish possession but what about the other fisherman present? Seems to me that they should be just as accountable. Also does anyone know what the penalty would be for something like this? I looked and all I could find was the penalty for taking 4 or more striped bass undersized/over limit, which would only be having your license suspended for a year. But this is way more extreme and these guys didn't have licenses anyway so what does that really matter to them?

Oops...looks like I posted this one in the wrong forum...oh well. The color was Gold Black. I've also had success with Green Tomato. The retrieve was steady and fast. I'd cast it out and burn it in. The lure was only running about 6 inches to a foot under the surface. I did well with the Red Eye Shad this past spring into early summer and now it looks like the lipless crank bite is picking back up as the weather cools back down. I've caught a lot of nice size bass and quite a few chain pickerel with this lure. Easily my favorite lipless crank.

When I first got to the lake today there was already someone fishing in the spot where I wanted to start. So right off the bat, my game plan was thrown into disarray and I was forced to fish off of a dam where I've never had much luck. Started out by pitching soft plastics to shoreline weeds and patches of lily pads with no luck and it looked like the day wasn't shaping up to be a very good trip. After a while I figured I'd try the exact opposite. I walked out to the middle of the dam and started casting a Red Eye Shad out into open water. On my second or third cast I got bit. I never saw the fish so I don't know if it was a huge bass or a huge pickerel or heck, maybe I snagged a huge carp...I dunno. But whatever it was it would have easily been the biggest thing I'd ever caught. I felt like Jeremy Wade from River Monsters. I actually had to put my weight into fighting this fish and I was still gaining little line if any at all. It ended up getting off after about 20 seconds and as I was burning my RES back in disgust, this hit it... Well I figured since I had 2 strikes in one cast, that there was probably something to the RES today so I kept throwing it. A few more casts and I hooked up with 2 more. I also had 3 more get off. Two were small like the first one and another one was about the size of the second. Around the time I was getting ready to leave, the guy who had been in my original spot came over to the dam and started fishing the grass and pads that I had started on. Just as I was getting ready to pack it all in, I had one more bite and it turned out to be the biggest fish of the day. Fortunately the guy had come over and I was able to have him snap a pic that would do the fish a little more justice than just holding it out at arms length. I wish I didn't have to work today cuz I would have stayed and I know I could have picked up a few more fish but hey, what are you gonna do?

Those fish are beastly!

Happy birthday, Roadwarrior!

That's pretty funny. Never had one of my dogs pee on anyone but when me and my wife first started dating we were shooting pool in my parents basement. She was bending over the table about to take a shot. When my brothers dog (who is usually really friendly) randomly came up behind her and bit her on her butt.

When they stock trout in the creek by my house, your elbow to elbow with fellow anglers for the next 2 weeks. While I've never used it, most of the people I see fishing for trout are using a ball of Power Bait on a small hook under a float. However, I use inline spinners or small crankbaits with pretty good success. I've caught them on inline spinners as big as a 1/4 oz. (because that's all I had at the time) but you'd be better off with 1/8 oz. or smaller. As for crankbaits, I like the SK Bitsy Minnow. I use a ML rod but that's just cuz I already have one and don't feel like putting out money for a rod that I'm only gonna use maybe a dozen times a year. Ideally, I'd go with a light one. For line, I use with 4 pound test.

Good looking fish!

That's probably it right there. You'd be surprised. There's a small pond in a park that I used to live by where more than a few piranha are caught at every year. And it gets pretty cold in MD. I personally know at least 2 people that have released them there but I doubt there are that many released to account for all the ones that are caught so I would assume there's a breeding population, small though it may be.