Cassidy Lake -Pickeral Fest

Went to Cassidy Lake on Thurs morn with a new internet fishing buddy. Peter and I arrived at the lake around 10am and it was very flat, and it was a cloudy, humid day. The fish started hitting almost immediatly when we got to the upper end of the lake. We must have caught and released 40 pickeral. What a blast!! They were hitting a J9 and J11 rapalas, silver and black. It was a good introduction for Peter as it was his first time there. It would be nice if all fishing trips produced such excellent results'

Went to the Saint John river on Fri morning. I guess you should never go fishing the day after a pickeral fest. We trolled and casted for about 6 hrs and managed to catch 1 bass and 1 gaspereau. The gaspereau hit a 10" Jake muskie lure and the 14" bass was caught on a jig with adouble tail, white, mister twister. I had a huge bass up to the boat and it got off just as we prepared to net it. Those big ones always get away!!!

French Lake- Pickeral

Took the wife to French Lake for some pickeral fishing on Sunday. I have been there a few times before ,ice fishing and once last year with my bass partner, moe, for picks. He and I only got a few perch near the 2 one-lane bridges. I caught a pic on my 1st cast on Sun on a green topwater while the wife was working on her line knots. I hooked 3 on a frog, and lost them all. It seems really hard to get a good hookset with this frog because of the hook position. I caught several perch and 1 pic on a jointed rapala (J11)which is quite large. The wife caught a couple of pics and perch on a black plastic pre-rigged worm which she had attached behind a double Hildebrand spinner. I am sure if a person fished hard all along the hundreds of weed beds you could fill the boat. I am definately going back for another go!!! There were also several large square nets set up in the area for gasperaux and I heard they catch them by the truckload right now. It was a great day on the water but a little breezy at times, especially in the afternoon.