Week number two in This Week in Fishing began kind of crazy. Saturday morning, April 9th, I woke up and spoke to my wife who said "You heading out for a little while?" My answer was sure since the weather that day was supposed to interesting. I hit the lake on the kayak and spent a couple of hours casting the same little Arkie jigs with a blue and silver tube. It paid off pretty well with a handful of black crappie and bluegill. I released all of them figuring that they were in preparation for spawning and why break up the honeymoon - right? As I drove home that morning the "interesting weather" started in earnest. My wife said that they had received a little hail at the house. By the time I was home and unloaded, we were starting to receive grapple, which turned into really big flakes of wet heavy snow. Within 45 minutes our deck was covered.
It snowed for about an hour and a half. The snow stayed around for about an hour or so, and then the sun came out and "Poof" it was gone.
Sunday, April 10th, I put the kayak on the car and headed to
St. Mary's Lake in Callaway, MD. It's more of an investment in time due to the about a 35 minute drive. I've fished there multiple times, but hadn't put the kayak in the water on the lake since last fall. Again I spent the better part of two hours casting that small jig and tube without a whole lot of luck. With the cold front that past through the day before, I really believe that the fish had moved off the shoreline to a little deeper water. I did manage to entice one small chain pickerel to taking my lure, as well as one largemouth, only about 9 inches long.
I did spend a little bit of time near some submerged trees casting a small crankbait. It got hit pretty hard once and I fought it to the surface. It was another, much bigger, pickerel, but alas I didn't get it to the boat. A couple more cast and I felt it got hit once again. I figured it was some branches but when I got it back to the kayak I found this little guy on the front treble hook.
My tubes that I had been using were about the same size so I switched back to one, but alas no luck.
Before the ride home I spoke with my wife and she was attending a school play with my oldest son and my youngest was watching the Orioles win their fifth straight game to open the season, so I stopped off at the Lake Lariat again and was able to catch a couple of nice crappie as well as a few smaller bass.
Fast forward a few days into the next weekend, or at least the beginning of the weekend. After school on Friday I headed down to Salisbury to see family. Strapped to the top of my car was the kayak. I arrived
Leonard's Mill Pond around 5 pm or a little after. It was a terrific afternoon and I had plenty of sunlight to use as I paddled around the shoreline casting that same small jig. I caught several crappie as well as bluegill. I also landed a nice, probably 2 lb largemouth as a 14 in. chain pickerel. That gave me four species - or what I like to refer to as a "slam." My weekend of fishing is Salisbury would continue but I'll write more about that in next week's TWiF! Tight Lines…
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