December 12 -- Last Meet and Greet of 2015 -- Jonas Green

[john243_]

Unfortunately I now have to work my son and I won't be able to make it. Good luck to all who go..


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[Mark]

Unfortunately I now have to work my son and I won't be able to make it. Good luck to all who go..


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We'll miss you both.

Thank you for the notification.

[jktom]

HI,
we are a family of three and would like to join you guys on saturday 12/12 for meet and greet and lunch. mike, julie, and noah tomasik. we look forward to it, thanks.

[Dimo]

Jsnyd86, I'm on the striper hunt and by the looks of it, I will need to commit to a fairly long morning of peddling to get to the depths where they may be at.


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[Mark]

HI,
we are a family of three and would like to join you guys on saturday 12/12 for meet and greet and lunch. mike, julie, and noah tomasik. we look forward to it, thanks.

OK. Good!

Welcome to the party.

[Mark]

Jsnyd86, I'm on the striper hunt and by the looks of it, I will need to commit to a fairly long morning of peddling to get to the depths where they may be at.


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Bear in mind that the stripers have remained active longer than we anticipated this year in Severn creeks and at the mouths of those creeks. I can't promise that will hold Saturday but I have seen more than a few folks from my plastic boat this fall hurriedly motor on by fish to catch fish.

[zditmars]

Id love to join you all for fishing and lunch. I just had a very successful weekend with stripers, launching from tucker sat & sun with over dozen fish caught, half keeper size. I'll meet up at Jonas


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[zditmars]

If I came, I would be trailering my kayak. It would be good if someone from my area would be going and that knows where to go. Is there a place to launch from where I can keep the trailer. Also, If I go, and because it is so far, I would want to car camp overnight.

There is a KOA campground in millersville approx. 20 miles away from launch. Have never been there however


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[cryptotek]

Id love to join you all for fishing and lunch. I just had a very successful weekend with stripers, launching from tucker sat & sun with over dozen fish caught, half keeper size. I'll meet up at Jonas


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That's a solid weekend, nice job. Were you trolling the channel edge?

[Mark]

Id love to join you all for fishing and lunch. I just had a very successful weekend with stripers, launching from tucker sat & sun with over dozen fish caught, half keeper size. I'll meet up at Jonas


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OK, welcome.

You're number 18.

[zditmars]

That's a solid weekend, nice job. Were you trolling the channel edge?

There are some deep holes and drop offs near both 50 & 450 bridges. I troll 1-2oz bucktails with twisters and paddle tails, going with the current worked best 1-2 hours after high tide. We'll see if they're still hanging around Saturday


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[PigPen]

I'll put you on the fishing list. How about lunch?

I think a Kastmaster will work but you might want to downsize to 1/8 oz. You'll either have a hard time keeping the 1/4 oz. lure off the bottom in the shallow water we'll be fishing or you will donate it to the submerged branches where pickerels hangout.

Like John, I use mono or fluorocarbon leaders in 10 or 15 pounds. Despite their teeth pickerel rarely slice through leaders. Most of the time I lip hook them. On those occasions where they take a lure deeper they have never cut my leader. But it helps to check your leader for fraying after you catch one.

Regarding your Kastmaster, it's somewhat similar to a Dardevle (yes, that's how it's spelled) spoon. I read recently that a red and white Dardevle spoon is a popular lure for pike, which are the larger cousins of pickerel. I don't have any Dardevles but I wanted to test that color pattern on pickerels. So I made a jig spinner with a white blade, white head and red bucktail and last week I caught two nice pickerel with it. But to be honest, I've yet to find a color combination that deters them. I think if you put something in their field of vision they often will follow it and many times they will bite it. That's why knowing where to look and accurate casting are helpful in catching them.

Thanks for the tip. Going to try with a fly rod. Please count me in for lunch too.

[Mark]

Thanks for the tip. Going to try with a fly rod. Please count me in for lunch too.

OK. Got you down for lunch.

Good luck with the fly rod. I've mostly used 9 ft. rods at 7 or 8 wt. Floating lines work just fine because the water is shallow. Typically I'm siting in 4 to 5 feet of water throwing to a bank with the fly landing in less than a foot of water. I've caught them on a 5 wt. but I like heavier rods to combat the wind and to toss larger Clousers and poppers.

[john243_]

Has anybody fished centennial lake lately ? I might go next week but never been . Any info and tips would be welcome. Thx


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[kuljc]

John, you might want to start a new thread on that topic. but I did a quick stop at Centennial for shore fishing, and noticed the boat ramp is closed from Dec1 - something (can't remember when it opens again).