Hmmm May 2013 you say. I'll have been back stateside for a few months and money in the bank from this deployment I'm gonna start working on the wife now cuz I wanna go!

Looking forward to it!

under 120 miles.........NO BRAINER. Can't wait to see all my BR friends again! Hopefully everyone who wants to catch that smallie does. Pickwick is known for huge smallies, but the LM still outnumber the SM by a ton. We will catch them though. Don't worry. I am headed there tommorrow and will give a report!

Jeff

it's 875 miles from door step to waters edge. Anyone have a longer trip (driving with boat)?

it's 875 miles from door step to waters edge. Anyone have a longer trip (driving with boat)?

I would venture to say Traveler and Rhino have longer.........they are from way up there in Northern Country

Jeff

it's 875 miles from door step to waters edge. Anyone have a longer trip (driving with boat)?

Try 1200 miles plus or minus from southeastern MA. I've brought my boat to the last three road trips, Pickwick, KY Lake, and Guntersville. The driving distance to each was about the same. Only fifteen miles separated the closest from the furthest.

2,500 miles! Give or take a couple hundred.

Hopefully Me and my dad can save enough pennies for this one. Anybody want to put us in some boats? Haha

If I go it will be 920mi according to mapquest and 15hrs so that means like 12 hours maybe I have a heavy foot,

I'm def gonna do this trip!

300 miles, Im going to be there this time!

NGaHB

good you can give me a hudd lesson if you don't mind fishing with a north alabama hillbilly

Ok Guys. Starting my scouting EARLY for the 2013 road trip, but we got on some fish today, just not the bigguns we were looking for. Started off early in the main lake fishing humps in 20-25fow. Landed 9 bass(8LM, 1SM) fishing 3/4oz jigs and crigged lizards. Then later in the day we found some more on main lake points and secondary points in coves. Caught 11 after noon(10LM,1SM). The later fish were caught in 10-14fow and were the bigger of the bunch. Most of the afternoon fish were caught on shakey heads, with a couple more on jigs. 20 bass and 1 bream for the day with the best 5 going somewhere between 15-16. Lots of skiers, waverunners and party barges made staying on spot tough and really messed with the fishing. That is the real reason we left the main lake in the afternoon, but it paid off. here is a little teaser to hold you over........

BTW, I know you guys wanna know about the smallies, but they were 1lb and 1.5lb, nothing much to talk about, other than they fought harder than all of the LM!!!!

Jeff

Indeed. Time to make some more jigs so Jeff can show me how to use em next year!

Does anyone have a topo of the lake?

Does anyone have a topo of the lake?

Here ya go.

www.atlanticmapping.com

Thank you, Long Mike.

Wow, how did I miss this topic. I should be in also again.

Looks like it is a go for me! At least in principle anyway. There's a lot of ups and downs between now and next May. I'm on a mission to go. We'll see!

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike where is my sign up sheet I want to get in ASAP! Who wants to room? LOL

Seriously guys this was the best week of fishing I and many others had in our lives last time! This time I'll be bringing my boat or if my old man comes his boat.

I'm in!

Large-scale success: Pickwick Lake producing big bass

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/may/27/large-scale-success/

Nice!

Ah, the memories of Pickwick, circa 2010.

This six pound smallmouth was followed by a five pound spot and a 4.5 pound smallmouth on successive casts. This was on Tuesday after the weekend the monsoon shut down Nashville and parts of I-40. Fifteen plus pounds of bass in the livewell in a 15 - 20 minute span. All told, I pulled over thirty fish from that one spot, after hauling in twenty plus fish at a point a half mile to the north.

Great fish Tom! I'd say that's a pretty dang good day. Just more gas to fuel my excitement!

Eric, I am sure Tom is far to old to remember things like that, but the bridge in the backgroud, looks to me like the bridge than runs over the Dam and locks. Maybe that will strike a chord and help Tom remember!

Jeff

Well, this has been a remarkable year. More double digit bass have been caught since last October

than the combined total in the history of the lake! Pickwick has never been considered a "big bass"

lake. On the otherhand, if we're talkin' 'bout smalljaws, this is a "HUGE BASS" river system.

In addition to some size, the lake produces big numbers on occasion. My best day ever was with

WMD on the 2010 RoadTrip: 78 one day! The following day we didn't have quite the numbers, but

both of us scored numerous 5lb+ fish. BTW, we weren't even in contention with Big O and the soldiers:

144 smallmouth during the worst storm you can imagine and two PBs!