Canal Pickerel
 

Friend wanted to fish with me so we booked it to the fish ladder. Dead heron on the rock bank and low water, so plan b was the canal

We're both googans and could hardly get a bite, but I understood how the bushy banks often hold fish more than the deep center. After dinks checking our lures out, I hook something HARD, and right off a bush.

Caught on a weightless zoom fluke. Weedless rigs a must. (Especially with a friend who can't resist casting into trees)

Who needs stocked pike? ;)

I hear there's bass in here... Haven't gotten one over 8 inches yet.

Re: Canal Pickerel
 

Nice pick! I'm going to have to take a ride over to the canal, looks like a ton of fun.

Re: Canal Pickerel
 

Hah, fun in tick city. Depending on what section you go to, expect most of the bank to be weeded over. Landing fish is a bit tricky. Long boat net would be good. I had my friend hold onto me as I scooped it with that lil net.

Re: Canal Pickerel
 

Thats a slob pickerel !!

Re: Canal Pickerel
 

Nice fish, only thing I've caught in the middle are cats, everything else along or under the overhangs.

Re: Canal Pickerel
 

In the winter I've gotten fish from the middle, not many.

I bet the cats prefer the deep.until night sets

Re: Canal Pickerel
 

nice slime dart you have there. those weightless flukes or fin-s soft plastics are deadly for slime darts they can not pass them up they just hammer those things. nice work getting it in through all the brush and stuff.

Re: Canal Pickerel
 

Sexy title on that fish!

Re: Canal Pickerel
 

Biiiiiiig pickerel! Nice one.