New Water, Explosive Pickerel

[Lard Almighty]

I tried a pond that I had known about for a while but never got around to trying. Glad I finally did, because the place is loaded with pickerel. It's a small park pond, completely weeded over except for from the shoreline to about 10 feet out, all around the pond. Bringing a buzzbait or weedless frog along the outer weed edge yielded some devastating strikes. Even for pickerel, these fish were abnormally aggressive, streaking out of the weeds like they were shot from a bow, and exploding on the bait. In fact, they hit so hard that I wound up missing a lot because they shocked the hell out of me! I managed to land three, and dropped about five or six. All fish were pretty healthy looking. There were frogs everywhere, and I assume that they are the main forage base in the pond (hence why the weedless frog was such an effective bait). Biggest fish went about 17-18 inches and fought like a truck.

[lunkertaker]

Throwing your lure and seeing a swirl with an aggressive pickerel on the hunt and eventually taking the presentation...well, life is good

[cmoran719]

Sounds awesome man

[GetANet]

Aggressive pickerel sounds good to me!!! The lake I fish has a ton of them in it too and sometimes they save the day!!! They destroy my spinnerbaits and senko's !!!!

[FASTEDDIE29]

Sounds like these pickeral may be on steroids!!! Nice job.

[tautog]

Damn I wish I new some Monmouth County pickerel spots. All my old spots have been killed off by bucket brigades and/or bassmasters.