St. Mary's Lake Grand Slam 11/17/08

Sunset - Tramonte

Pickerel - Luccetto

Put the kayak in around 1pm. Very overcast and around 52 degrees air temperature. Slight wind but nothing unmanageable. Used a rapala count down in shad, a mepps spinner, chartruese crankbait and a rapala jointed minnow. Caught all my fish in the standing timber. Ended up with 7 fish a bluegill, pickerel, 2 crappie and 3 bass. The biggest bass and the pickerel were my largest out of the lake this year. Better late than never I guess. 2 other people fishing and both were outcatching me.

The pickerel was strong enough to pull the kayak around a bit. Know as a 'Sleigh ride', it's been a while since I've caught a freshwater fish in the kayak that was able to give me a ride.

Ho usato il kayak. Preso 7 pesci. Bluegill, luccetto, crappie & bass. Il bass & luccetto erano i piu grandi che ho preso del quel lago quest anno. Nouvoloso col poco sole. Usavo il rapala countdown e un crankbait colore chartreuse. Mepps = cappotto.

Saluti tutti i soci del pescaOK.

More 2008 fish pics

St Mary's lake crappie

Spring break fish
St mary's pickerel

Calvert pond crappie

Recent fishing pictures

It's been awhile since I've updated these pages. So here's some recent fishing pictures.

Watch those teeth!

This guy had a full belly. Notice the bulging stomach area. He still went after the lure anyway.

Another picture of the same fish.

The pickerel seem to bite fairly regular at the local lake in the spring and fall.

Decent sized crappie.


We even took some fish trolling out to our spots. We'd trail a lure behind the boat and go slow. We'd catch a few fish out in the deeper pockets of water.

I saved the best for last. This hungry jumped on a lure half his size. This spring we've had a bunch of bass between 5 & 7 inches caught on lures. You go to set the hook when you feel the bite and launch the fish out of the water.

Cold & windy

It was lousy weather this weekend for doing anything outdoors. I managed to get away on the water for a few hours yesterday. Went to St Mary's lake.

Total take was 6 fish. 5 bass and a bluegill. All caught by DC. I had the big skunk. That's how it goes some times.