Rocky Gorge 01 April 2012

[perchy]

Not surprised, considering how much pickerel love chartreuse anything... lol

[frettr00]

I never had any luck fishing that damn gorge....none at all. Go there if you like a challenge and like bass ignoring everything you throw at them.

[perchy]

Rocky Gorge is not that difficult once you figure out some patterns. The fish seem more oriented towards smallish lures than other lakes like Loch Raven. I think this is because there are swarms of baby fish and threadfin shad in the 2-4 inch range. I mostly fish the 0-20 ft zone there because I don't have the patience for deep jigging/carolina rigging stuff.

Lures that have worked for me there:

1- Silver 2 inch Shad Rap
2- Pointer 78 in American Shad
3- Husky Jerk in baby bass
4- Senko/Swim senko 4" natural shad/green pumpkin/pumpkin
5- Mepps Black Fury Chartreuse #5 dressed spinner
6- 3" power grubs pumpkin chartreuse
7- Terminator white spinnerbait 3/8 oz

I've only caught LM bass and some big yellow perch, no pike or walleyes. Would probably try a booyah pond magic chartreuse for pike now or some bigger chartreuse plastics. No idea for walleyes or stripers.

[Backwater]

The walleyes liked 3 to 4" white swim shad and gulp. Small jerk baits get alot of love at triadelphia too. Alot of fish school up at these lakes one day last year I caught two fish all day and a guy at the ramp said he caught about 2 dozen small mouth all ine one area on minnows and night crawlers.

[perchy]

I was reading on another board someone was catching some small northern pike on small smoke grubs. In general RG and Triadelphia get more bites on finesse size lures for me: