Tuckahoe Joe

Good fish! Pike/pickerel seem to love spinnerbaits and I've had them trash more than a few of mine as well. All you can really do is try and bend them back into shape or go out a buy some more and keep on fishing.

Last season I had a lot of luck with squarebill cranks in the fall, mainly the KVD 1.5. Lately it's sure been feeling like fall, especially in the mornings and at night and I've been crushing fish with spinnerbaits.

Not sure what the depths are on the lakes your fishing. I like the KVD 1.5's, Bomber Square A's, Rapala Shallow Shad Raps, and Bandit 200 Series for depths 5-6 feet and less. That's really the max depth on the lakes I'm fishing so I don't really have any experience with anything that goes deeper. Or you could go with a lipless crank. They can be fished at any depth depending on your retrieve. For lipless cranks I like the Red Eye Shad.

Any 100+ fish day is an awesome trip in my book...congrats!

I'm with everyone else....in the 4 pound range....nice fish whatever the weight!

That's a good problem to have...nice fish!

Nice fish! Sam's one of the guys on here that can give you one of those answers that sounds like its strait out of an encyclopedia. He's helped me out with more than a few questions.

Good looking smallie!

Ha! You actually posted a pic of a skunk. I lol'ed on that one. Nice fish! While self pics do kind of suck (that's all I'm able to take most of the time by the way), I usually look at the person's hands to try and give it some scale. I figure my 4 fingers are about 3.5-4 inches across and that's probably close to average for most of the people on this site so I'd call that fish about 14-16 inches and a fat one at that. Nice one!

Nice fish! I often try to take the pic with the lure still in the fishes mouth as well. It helps to give it some scale. Spinnerbait bite has been hot for me lately. Also been catching some on crankbaits. Mainly the Rapala Scatter Rap Crank.

Hey guys. Went out with the wife this morning and she asked me a question I didn't have an answer for. She had left her purse at home so she didn't have to worry about leaving it in the car and she was wondering if DNR stopped us, would they want to see her ID to check it against her fishing license?

Good looking sandwich! Fish aren't too bad either

Nice fish!

Good looking fish!

Nice fish...that chain pickerel looks fat!

Nice fish...caught a couple myself on 1.5's recently. I think the fall crankbait bite might be turning on a little early this year.

Good looking fish!

Nice fish! Planning on learning jigs next season....gonna get a bunch of them for Xmas.

That things a monster!

Nice fish! How's that bait working out for you? I read a review somewhere that said it lands upside down a lot when you cast it.

Awesome fish! Dunno about the tail though...

Cool catch! Sucks about your finger.

Good looking fish!

Pulled a Zman Chatterbait out of a tree today. Must have just been lost in the last couple days cuz there wasn't any rust on it at all. I threw a new skirt on it and put a grub on for a trailer. Anyway, I was wondering if there was anyway to tell the weight of it without having a digital scale handy. Like maybe 3/8 oz. is a little longer than a 1/4 oz. or something like that...

Congrats on a couple of awesome fish!