Pickwick 7th-11th

Went up to pickwick for a few days to catch some different species. Have a friend that lives up there that is a bass addict and figured I'd let Will take the opportunity to learn something new.. and boy did he. Learned real quick that if I was a bass fisherman that would be my lake. A lot of similarities in the ways they bass fish that lake vs the ways we crappie fish. And I will add.. even though we did zero crappie fishing, that place is loaded with crappie. I looked at school after school of crappie sitting in the "danger zone". We will be going back in a month or so to pull some cranksbaits.
We started off the first day bream fishing. My buddy had been locating deeper water beds and killing them. He even gave me a lesson. Everybody can and has seen bream beds on side image, but we fine tuned in and didn't put a hook in the water until we were looking at bream in the beds in 9-10FOW. It take a little button pushing, but sure nuff.. plain as day you can see them laying in the hole. That may be the coolest something I've ever seen done with side image. Crappie takes some tweaking at times, but I never figured to could see bream.
We dropped a marker, turned around and whacked'em.. and they ate great
I have found a new way to bream fish!!

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Next day we took Will on a bass fishing trip and he proved to me he is a fisherman.. he can adapt and catch fish pretty good for an 8 year old. I was proud of that little fella and enjoyed watching him so focused and catching bass.. they even let me through a time or 2.
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We even found smallmouth too!
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overall we had a great times with friends, fishing, and even got blessed with the bonus of catching.
That lake is BIG and overwhelming,but I feel like I learned a whole lot in a few days about it, even though in reality I haven't even scratched the surface.

Looks like a awesome trip! Thanks for sharing ! I hope to learn how to dual in my electronics in one these days and catch gills that deep.

She's dangerous at times..Be weather wise all the times..

Wow....good report

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Very nice, cool post about the fish in the beds!! Enjoyed the pics!!

This is a awesome post. The pics are great and really portray the fun being had by all. Congrats on making some cool memories.

I started going up there about 20 years ago and still love it. Sounds like you had a great weekend.


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looks like one heck of a fun trip

Great report. Pickwick is my favorite place ever!


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Wow! Nice catch. Thanks for sharing the report and pictures.

There's nothin better than seeing a youngster holding a fish and grinning ear to ear....Thanks for sharing