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Raleigh, NC
Born in Richmond, Virginia, grew up in Kernersville, North Carolina, and now reside in Raleigh. I attribute most of my fishing prowess to my father, who took me fishing often as a child. We would regularly do float trips on the James River in Virginia, which is where I learned to love canoeing and river fishing. Unfortunately, my father has passed, but he lives on through my passion for chasing fish from my canoes. I intend to pass this love for fishing and the outdoors onto my children and can't wait to share these experiences with them. I currently have 4 canoes: Customized Old Town Guide 119, Customized Mohawk 16 Royalex, Coleman Scanoe, and 12' Indian River Solo.

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Beautiful November Day, Gotta Love NC!

This year, I've made many river trips where I've caught all of these species. Today was no different. I was trying for crappie to fill my cooler, but I only got one slow trolling a lime green maribou jig.  Ambient temps around 70 F, light winds, and clear cool water.

Started off the day trolling various cranks and picked up a nice jack. Got it on a Black/White Rapala J-9.



Tied a cordell spot on to one of the trolling rods and caught my first bass within minutes. I then began to throw the cordell spot to the bank and caught 10 bass in total on that one lure. All bass and the pickerel were caught within 20' of the bank near wood in the deepest pools/holes.




Today was absolutely gorgeous. Water temp was ~55 F where I was catching them. Wish I could go again tomorrow.
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Feather Chucker said...

Nice fish. Looks like a great day. That pickerel is huge.

November 20, 2012 at 4:01 PM

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