Carnivorous Canal Chain Combat

[thmyorke1]

I planned on fishing the ladder but with four fellas already fishing it I made a 180 and fished the canal hoping to put t-rigged zoom u-tails to work.

I planned on just bass but ended up landing 2/3 chain pickerel and a lil bass.

3rd pickerel would have been caught if i didn't check my text messages. I was dangling my lure right beneath the water surface and I see a pickerel SMACK it I set the hook either too early or too late. You bet that one looked like the biggest of the three...

Moral; Dont text and fish

I also tried some spots on the the spill-way channel that goes from the canal to the millstone. It looked promising with how deep it seemed to get just off the banks of it, along with all the trees underwater. Along with some cast from this point, around the fenced pump building, and to the falls, no action.

Once the drizzle stopped and the temps/humidity shot up the action seemed to stop.

[JimmyL]

Hey, did a lot better than me. I was in the same area 6 45 to 7 45 am in canal and river and didn't even get a bite. Good job.

[NorthJerzyG]

I'll take pickerel action over a skunking any day. Nice work!

[NJSquatch]

Pickerel are always cooperative!

The texting hit is telling you to pause more during your retrieve.

[AndyS]

Don't text and drive, don't text and fish ! Amazed that there were 4 people fishing that section of the river and it's not even trout stocked. They could have gone to Colonial Park and caught stocked trout, or went up to the North and South Branch and caught stocked trout. They could go up to Duke Island Park even and catch stocked trout. Why are so many people fishing the river ?
You could have moved down river a bit to where the old Conco Pipe was.

[JDTuna]

Very nice!