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Originally Posted by Buschwacker
I hunt and fish primarily in southern jersey ... want to start fly fishing for pickerel ... need advice on rod, reel, line, backing, flies, etc. Thank you in advance.
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Pickerel are a great fish to catch on a fly. I would always target them in Deal lake when they were plentyful and it was a blast. Pickerel are one of my favorite fresh water fish. Takanassee is productive like Mikey said and my son and I have had great sucess there fly fishing.
There is a killer fly for Pickerel...I discovered it years ago while fishing in the catskills. The fly is the bead head purple crystal bugger. Pickerel can't resist it. The other is a yellow deer hair streamer.
I use an Orvis 7ft 9in 5wt rod with weight forward floating line as mentioned above. The reel is a Orvis Battenkill Bar stock for 3-5 wt line. The backing is 75 yds of 20lb dacron. The shorter rod will allow you to cast under hanging branches and tight conditions.
Leif
