Farrington 8/30
 

used small worms, jigs and a live lined sunny in hopes of a pike/pickerel/bass, and a good overall multispecies day. first cast nailed a 10" crappie, nothing for a while after. hooked a decent bass on the jig that spat the hook at the last second. bullheads werent as active as last time but i picked them off slowly thru the afternoon. got no action on the live sunny...but....

while jigging my trout magnet, felt a huge thump followed by heavy throbbing and then screaming drag so i assumed a big bass or pickerel. it swam near the surface but all i saw was its back, and i thought obviously a pickerel around 20", but after it gave a head shake near the surface i saw a pale white/greenish face and no black stripe down the eye...so yes, even pike will hit those tm's if they are around :p. it gave one more run and cut through my 4lb line like nothing. and this is the second one i lost at the same location :(

total fish count was 8 bullheads, 4 crappies, a perch and 5 sunnies. not too bad, hoping to get revenge on mr. pike next time :cool:.

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From shore?

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off a bridge

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Nice job. I've never done to well there but I've been anxious to get back

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Great place to fish from a kayak. You can park and literally throw your yak in the water.

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I typically launch my boat there and head up stream to fish the pads. One of my favorite places and 10 mins from the house. Flipping the pads and the explosions, even without the hookup is awesome. Usually see folks fishing there and have heard stories of some large pike caught there.

When ever I go under the bridge, the depth finder is always lite up with fish readings.

The large body of pads on one side of the bridge I usually hit either on the way out or on the way in and has been productive for LMB and pickerel

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Nice multi species day. Great catch.