Super User clayton86 Posted May 19, 2012 Super User Posted May 19, 2012 Hmmm May 2013 you say. I'll have been back stateside for a few months and money in the bank from this deployment I'm gonna start working on the wife now cuz I wanna go! Quote
Super User Chris at Tech Posted May 19, 2012 Super User Posted May 19, 2012 Looking forward to it! Quote
Super User 00 mod Posted May 19, 2012 Super User Posted May 19, 2012 under 120 miles.........NO BRAINER. Can't wait to see all my BR friends again! Hopefully everyone who wants to catch that smallie does. Pickwick is known for huge smallies, but the LM still outnumber the SM by a ton. We will catch them though. Don't worry. I am headed there tommorrow and will give a report! Jeff Quote
Super User Bassn Blvd Posted May 19, 2012 Super User Posted May 19, 2012 it's 875 miles from door step to waters edge. Anyone have a longer trip (driving with boat)? Quote
Super User 00 mod Posted May 19, 2012 Super User Posted May 19, 2012 it's 875 miles from door step to waters edge. Anyone have a longer trip (driving with boat)? I would venture to say Traveler and Rhino have longer.........they are from way up there in Northern Country Jeff Quote
Super User Fishing Rhino Posted May 19, 2012 Super User Posted May 19, 2012 it's 875 miles from door step to waters edge. Anyone have a longer trip (driving with boat)? Try 1200 miles plus or minus from southeastern MA. I've brought my boat to the last three road trips, Pickwick, KY Lake, and Guntersville. The driving distance to each was about the same. Only fifteen miles separated the closest from the furthest. Quote
BassResource.com Administrator Glenn Posted May 20, 2012 Author BassResource.com Administrator Posted May 20, 2012 2,500 miles! Give or take a couple hundred. Quote
Super User BASSclary Posted May 20, 2012 Super User Posted May 20, 2012 Hopefully Me and my dad can save enough pennies for this one. Anybody want to put us in some boats? Haha Quote
Super User clayton86 Posted May 20, 2012 Super User Posted May 20, 2012 If I go it will be 920mi according to mapquest and 15hrs so that means like 12 hours maybe I have a heavy foot, Quote
zip pow Posted May 20, 2012 Posted May 20, 2012 300 miles, Im going to be there this time! NGaHB good you can give me a hudd lesson if you don't mind fishing with a north alabama hillbilly Quote
Super User 00 mod Posted May 21, 2012 Super User Posted May 21, 2012 Ok Guys. Starting my scouting EARLY for the 2013 road trip, but we got on some fish today, just not the bigguns we were looking for. Started off early in the main lake fishing humps in 20-25fow. Landed 9 bass(8LM, 1SM) fishing 3/4oz jigs and crigged lizards. Then later in the day we found some more on main lake points and secondary points in coves. Caught 11 after noon(10LM,1SM). The later fish were caught in 10-14fow and were the bigger of the bunch. Most of the afternoon fish were caught on shakey heads, with a couple more on jigs. 20 bass and 1 bream for the day with the best 5 going somewhere between 15-16. Lots of skiers, waverunners and party barges made staying on spot tough and really messed with the fishing. That is the real reason we left the main lake in the afternoon, but it paid off. here is a little teaser to hold you over........ BTW, I know you guys wanna know about the smallies, but they were 1lb and 1.5lb, nothing much to talk about, other than they fought harder than all of the LM!!!! Jeff Quote
Scorcher214 Posted May 21, 2012 Posted May 21, 2012 Indeed. Time to make some more jigs so Jeff can show me how to use em next year! Quote
Super User Long Mike Posted May 22, 2012 Super User Posted May 22, 2012 Does anyone have a topo of the lake? Here ya go. www.atlanticmapping.com Quote
Siebert Outdoors Posted May 22, 2012 Posted May 22, 2012 Wow, how did I miss this topic. I should be in also again. Quote
scrutch Posted May 22, 2012 Posted May 22, 2012 Looks like it is a go for me! At least in principle anyway. There's a lot of ups and downs between now and next May. I'm on a mission to go. We'll see! Quote
Simp Posted May 26, 2012 Posted May 26, 2012 YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mike where is my sign up sheet I want to get in ASAP! Who wants to room? LOL Seriously guys this was the best week of fishing I and many others had in our lives last time! This time I'll be bringing my boat or if my old man comes his boat. Quote
ick Posted May 29, 2012 Posted May 29, 2012 Large-scale success: Pickwick Lake producing big bass http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/may/27/large-scale-success/ Nice! Quote
Super User Fishing Rhino Posted May 29, 2012 Super User Posted May 29, 2012 Ah, the memories of Pickwick, circa 2010. This six pound smallmouth was followed by a five pound spot and a 4.5 pound smallmouth on successive casts. This was on Tuesday after the weekend the monsoon shut down Nashville and parts of I-40. Fifteen plus pounds of bass in the livewell in a 15 - 20 minute span. All told, I pulled over thirty fish from that one spot, after hauling in twenty plus fish at a point a half mile to the north. Quote
Scorcher214 Posted May 30, 2012 Posted May 30, 2012 Great fish Tom! I'd say that's a pretty dang good day. Just more gas to fuel my excitement! Quote
Super User 00 mod Posted May 30, 2012 Super User Posted May 30, 2012 Eric, I am sure Tom is far to old to remember things like that, but the bridge in the backgroud, looks to me like the bridge than runs over the Dam and locks. Maybe that will strike a chord and help Tom remember! Jeff Quote
Super User roadwarrior Posted May 30, 2012 Super User Posted May 30, 2012 Well, this has been a remarkable year. More double digit bass have been caught since last October than the combined total in the history of the lake! Pickwick has never been considered a "big bass" lake. On the otherhand, if we're talkin' 'bout smalljaws, this is a "HUGE BASS" river system. In addition to some size, the lake produces big numbers on occasion. My best day ever was with WMD on the 2010 RoadTrip: 78 one day! The following day we didn't have quite the numbers, but both of us scored numerous 5lb+ fish. BTW, we weren't even in contention with Big O and the soldiers: 144 smallmouth during the worst storm you can imagine and two PBs! Quote
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