Fly Fishing For Pike and Pickerel

Monster Pike and Walleye on the fly - short video

feeds@kickapps.com (gillbuster) — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:50:29 PST

Another video clip to drool over

http://www.hatches.tv/video/Fly-Max-Films-Episode-3

New moon pike

feeds@kickapps.com (bill0215) — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:47:13 PST

went pike fishing and used a big black gurgler.

A Pickerel kind of Day

feeds@kickapps.com (B52 bugger) — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:05:23 PST

Yesterday, I was at the office inb Stow, Massachusetts. Cloudy and it was calm. I got there around 10:30 am and was suppose to fish a few hours, I got home at 5 pm. The place was alive with damsel flies, small fish was feeding on them. Pickerel was cruising for a bruising. The tally over thirty pickerel gave up counting from 6 inch to biggies and 7 largemouths. The fly of choice was my dragon fly (B52). Some body had to be at the office, oh well.

Time with a friend

feeds@kickapps.com (B52 bugger) — Mon, 31 May 2010 05:19:06 PST

May 29 Friday. Had the pleasure meeting on the pond with Gillbuster for coffee. Every once in a while someone comes into your life that you admire. Gillbuster is an Air Force veteran, gentleman, fly tyer and fisherman. Anytime you can share time with a friend, it is a blessing. Friends are God's gift to us.

I was a little disappointed with the weather. Wind was suppose to be light. It kept blowing and changing direction. Still it was a joy to be on the pond. John was in his kayak and I in the canoe. I didn't want to crowd him so I kept my distance. I just watch John using his new addition a beautiful 9 ft Shakespeare glass rod with 10 wgt line. People today have no clue what a rod...

Pickerel Party Crasher

feeds@kickapps.com (JeffSod) — Thu, 27 May 2010 10:22:15 PST

Beautiful day here in the Northeast after yesterdays scorcher. Decided to get out for some fresh air and wet a line for a bit. Read somewhere a quote by some well known fisherman maybe Lee Wulff but cannot really recall that you should fish where and when you can.

Light Northly breezes bluebird skies and a comfortable 70 degrees made it such that it wouldn't matter if you caught anything today. Just nice to be there. Small fairly shally little kidney shaped warmwater pond with enough lily pad coverage to have some decent size bass. Unfortunately most of the better coverage is on the far shore from the access and theres not enough time at lunch to get over there and really work it. So I am happy to have a nice break in the trees on the SW corner to allow for some nice lunch time casting practice.

Today I worked several long casts out towards the middle near the south end where the shade line is as I saw a fish moving on top. Sure enough the second cast to the...

The dark side

feeds@kickapps.com (B52 bugger) — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:14:18 PST

Saturday morning I hit Delaney. 8 am to 2 pm, even though the wind was light from east, south, west I stayed with the Jitterbug and Heddon Dying Flutter, spinning. Covering a lot of water. From last week the action is in deeper water. Got over 25 pickerel, biggest three pounds. Had some terrific top water hits and managed to miss the fish. I got one bass about two pounds. - I believe things will change around 2 nd week in June - when the female bass are off the beds.

Wind and color frustration

feeds@kickapps.com (B52 bugger) — Tue, 04 May 2010 11:45:08 PST

I got up early. Check my flag - no wind. Was on the pond - secret pond, o.k. Delaney. Got two pickeral on my new hair bug - swallow jobs - not good. 8:30 am wind from south, no west, no north gusting 30 knots. Using a Coach Dog color Jitterbug land four pickeral, swicthed to all yellow Jitterbug same size, missede and not able to hook ten fish in a row. No bass today????

Maine Pike... not necessarily a good thing

feeds@kickapps.com (spinzo) — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:34:12 PST

A buddy of mine just got back from a trip to Sebago Lake targeting, of all things, crappie. The photo I saw showed a healthy fish, and he said he caught a lot of them. I was surprised to learn that Sebago had calicoes (how long did I live in Maine and never knew!).

Unfortunately I also learned that someone decided to put pike in that lake. What a shame. I don't know how long they've been in there, but I just can't fathom the selfishness and stupidity of some people.

Mike

Hey Gillbuster

feeds@kickapps.com (B52 bugger) — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:41:03 PST

Been walking the dogs at Delaney Pond. Kayaks, john boats, ranger boat - high water. They are catching bass, calici bass and pickerel on the other gear. Savage pickerel are in the flooded areas - I mean in the tress seacrhing for food. No room to cast in the forest.

A matter of time.

Armand

Pike on a fly video

feeds@kickapps.com (gillbuster) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:58:40 PST

Those are fish with bad intentions

http://globalflyfisher.com/video/pike-fly-barry-reynolds

pike on the fly

feeds@kickapps.com (bill0215) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:39:16 PST

http://www.pikeflyfishingarticles.blogspot.com/

Musky Fly video

feeds@kickapps.com (gillbuster) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:28:15 PST

For those who wish to pursue Musky.... this is on my Bucket list

http://vimeo.com/8523307

Anyone ever fly fish or spin fish for Pike

feeds@kickapps.com (B52 bugger) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:36:48 PST

I met some guys who fish Lake Champlain for pike and also catch smallmouth bass. Has anyone done this and where do you fish. You know I am a surface fly and spin fisher. I love top water fishing. Also would like to fish smallmouths in Maine.
old friend,
AJ

Could be the place for a record Pickeral

feeds@kickapps.com (B52 bugger) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:10:42 PST

I have been fishing hard. I caught my first five pound bass on July 9, 1959 = it weighed 5 pounds, 1 3/4oz taken on a Jitterbug. I have been trying over fifty years for a ten pounder. Maybe this year. I have been fishing Delaney WMA Pond for three weeks at least three days a week, I have be catching and missing fish. Some of the fish chase the lure or bug, or some ambush through the pads. I naturally assumed they were Largemouth. I have come to the conclusion that these were not bass they were Pickeral. These fish are so large I want to say Pike but I don't believe there are any in the pond. It's heavily weeded, lily pads and tree stumps.

I can say from the strikes and playing large Pickeral they actually scare me. Normally I would say fifteen pound Bluefish scare me they are crazy

Nice little Pickerel

feeds@kickapps.com (wayneb) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:02:44 PST

Hi All;

Caught this one on a "Puglisi" style baitfish pattern.

Hard to photo, the little devil wouldn't hold still to pose!

Wayneb

Three Days of Fishing on the dark side

feeds@kickapps.com (B52 bugger) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:00:46 PST

Fished three days straight (four hours each) at Delaney Wildlife Management Area located Harvard Road, Stow, MA. Probably got over fifty pickeral 13 bass. The place is weed infestive, with stumps and lily pads. I did catch a few on the fly rod. I fished on the dark side 5 1/2 ft Ugly stik, 20 lb power pro line with 5/8 oz Jitterbug. 20 pound line to muscle fish out of pads and weeds. I would rather use the fly rod but conditions not the best....

Water Wolf

feeds@kickapps.com (gillbuster) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:37:41 PST

Not for the faint of heart... Boy would I like to set a hook into a 52 incher

http://hatches.tv/play.php?vid=371

Swedish pickerel fishing tactic - Tandem style fly

feeds@kickapps.com (gillbuster) — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:27:35 PST

Thought this was a neat article for pickerel fly fishing from Sweden; making burly tandem style fly with mono, easy and neat idea

http://www.rackelhanen.se/eng/10124.htm

Gillbuster

new site

feeds@kickapps.com (bill0215) — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:33:07 PST

another brooklyn fly fisher: http://www.wiprud.com/flies.htm

On Steroid Pond - Chasing Gator Pickerel

feeds@kickapps.com (JeffSod) — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:37:07 PST

And overstuffed yellow Perch! Had the pleasure to connect with Gillbuster and fish for some gator Pickerel and fat yellow perch today. Gillbuster and I have had some fantastic outings together and today we added another fine one to the memory bank. A huge thanks goes out to our host the owner of the property and the boat which made this great outing possible. I think the pictures speak for themselves. The fishing was about as good as it gets in November. Some of these pickerel were absolut gators who dominated the fights and basically flipped us off as they tor away every time we tried to coax them to the boat.

Enjoy the pics....

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