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John Kuriawa and I have been trying to schedule a fishing trip for a while but schedules and weather kept getting in the way.

But not today!

We met at the boat at 11a and we were greeted by a glorious day!

After loading the gear on the boat, we were on our way to his favorite pickerel spots!



Pickles were our target...exclusively!

John started with a 4" hard plastic jerk bait and connected immediately!



And then a few more before I had my 1st one. I was using a 3" hard plastic jerkbait.





But his hot lure was an inline spinner that was just deadly.

All told, John caught north of 25 pickles...I had 15 or so.

We had 3 bite-offs and many failed hookups including one (for John) that I saw at the bow of the boat that looked like a pike!

I threw 3 -4 different spinner baits and never had a look. As well, I threw a soft plastic paddle tail (weedless) but only had 2 half hearted attempts at it.

John threw a weedless soft plastic fluke and he caught a few but missed more. It's hard to set that single embedded hook in them but the bait was effective.

At one point. I put on an old 3" spy bait (top water prop) to experiment and had 7 excellent hits but I only felt weight 1 time. I went fast, slow and erratic but they just kept missing the lure. The experiment was semi successful. We raised fish but unfortunately, landed none. John will tell you that I was giggling like a kid though...what blast!

We also caught a 1/2 dozen or so yellow perch...





Here are some more shots...







Our biggest for the day were just over 23" each.





To say that I had a blast is an understatement! Not sure I've ever seen that many pickle boated in one afternoon outing. And we lost so many as well...

We quit around 4:30p as the sun was starting to drop.



So sad that our days are so short now. I wouldn't care if it was cold but to have near 70df temps in November?

EPIC!!