Favorite Pickerel Lure?

[Comfortably Numb]

Used to fish for the Slimers in a shallow weedy lake in Pa. Flukes were bait of choice. We would rig them on a 3/0 offset hook with the point in the pocket so totaly weedless. 

 

As someone else said seeing that wake charging from 30' away with their back out of the water and them the explosion is very exciting.

 

Caught a 4 pounder last year with a 1.5" 1/16 #8 crappie jig and ultralight.

[bigbill]

Ok my first big 30"+ pickerel here's my story.

 

First we don't target pickerel they target us when fishing for bass.

 

When this site was still in its new stage Glenn here was nice enough to help me out with spinnerbaits. He taught me how to tune and set them up. I added my own touch by going one size larger in the Colorado blade. I added a mister twister split double tail grub as a trailer with a trailer hook. I did not write down my first spinnerbait setup.

I was finally catching bass on a spinnerbaits. I was having a great morning. My success had me saying one more fish, just one more cash. I was about to take the spinnerbait out of the water when a big pickerel came parallel  the shoreline on the exposed rocks and took my spinnerbait while shaking his head he ripped it off my line. My morning of success turned into a bummer for the rest of the day trying to figure out which blade I used to get more thump out of my spinnerbait. I nailed the perfect tweeked spinnerbaits for my area. I finally figured it out. The mepps Anglia is still the lure of choice. But that spinnerbaits is hot too.