D&R Canal 9/18

[SkillfulAngler908]

Decided to stay local yesterday with the ugly weather, so me and my buddy threw the boat in the canal from about 12-330. We found a nice hole with a runoff spilling into it right away that had a bunch of bass in it. We pulled out maybe 4 dinks on senkos, before my buddy switched to a buzzbait and pulled out a stocky 1.5-2lber. Headed upstream after that and I got a 18 or so inch slime dart boatside doing a figure 8 lol. Action slowed down for a while after that until we found a bridge that had some crappie loaded up under it. We pulled out about 5 decent crappie real quick vertical jigging before we started heading back downstream. On the way back I hit a nice thick 23 in pickerel on a jointed believer, then we got bass/dart doubles on round 2 in the bass hole we found. Shortly after this my buddy switched to a smithwick rogue and hooked up with something nice. It was swimming straight toward the boat and came toward the surface and I'm 90% sure it was about a 30in tiger musky, but once it caught a glimpse of the boat it took a run under the boat and broke the line. We were pretty bummed after this and only took a few more casts before calling it quits. All in all it was a fun trip and a nice change only driving 5 mins to fish.

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[kcritch]

Nice job...Took some guts to out in a boat in that weather yesterday. Glad it worked out for ya!

[tycomps]

that's one fat ass spinnerbait bass! interesting markings on that slimer, no vertical line down from the eye?

[SkillfulAngler908]

that's one fat ass spinnerbait bass! interesting markings on that slimer, no vertical line down from the eye?

That was a buzzbait bass! I think the vertical line may have been washed out in the photo by the flash, but still a cool looking fish.

[Skunk City]

Nice pictures and nice slime darts. Have caught probably close to 75 Pike this year but still no Pickerel :( .

[SkillfulAngler908]

Nice pictures and nice slime darts. Have caught probably close to 75 Pike this year but still no Pickerel :( .

Come fish the canal or the millstone and try NOT to catch a pickerel lol. I can't even estimate the number of pencils I've caught this year.

[FASTEDDIE29]

Good catch on crazy weather day.

[crustyangler17]

nice job, i was at the lock yesterday, fished an hour before sundown with a senko and got this :)
53689

[SkillfulAngler908]

nice job, i was at the lock yesterday, fished an hour before sundown with a senko and got this :)
53689

Nice. Griggstown loch?

[crustyangler17]

yes sir!

[GoIslanders]

Always a pleasant surprise to get a smallmouth in the D & R. My son got two in ten minutes there a few years ago-I didn't realize they were in there until he caught them.

Gotta love pickerel anyway you slice it. They're aggressive and fight hard. What's not to love?

[tycomps]

nice job, i was at the lock yesterday, fished an hour before sundown with a senko and got this :)
53689

nice! they're getting chunky.