Lake Shenandoah 6/23

[AJFISH13]

Hit Lake Shenandoah today. The weather was perfect to start, cool, cloudy, and foggy. After that we had a short lived torrential thunderstorm and then the sun came out . This seemed to shut off the fishing. We fished from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm. We managed 12 pickeral, perch and bass. Big fish was a 3lb. pickeral my dad managed. We had 10 fish in the first 2 hours, then 2 fish in the next 3 hours . Started out good then it went very sour. Caught fish on rapalas and heddon torpedoes. Had a number of misses, including some big fish, on the torpedoes and on a pink zoom fluke(my first time using one). At least the fish liked them. I had an EXPLOSION from a real monster on the heddon. Was either a goliath pickeral or a tiger musky, sounded like a small boulder being dropped and the swirl wasn't much smaller than what a cow bass makes when it crashes on bunker. Saying a toothy critter because it was such a violent strike. He missed it completely, otherwise the lure would have been gone. Overall a tough day with some very exciting/dissapointing moments.

[Jerseydix]

Nice, sounds like a fun day.