Since the latest winter
storm passed through the Hampton roads area, I have been watching the weather
like a hawk looking for a warming trend.
When I saw one forecast for last weekend, I rigged up the Cuda for some
winter time bucketmouths.
VA Cold Water Largemouth
Most of the local lakes
were completely iced over limiting my options, but fellow Werner Paddles
teammate Richie Bekolay ( to see his blog Click Here ) told me that one our favorite lakes
was open so we set out in hopes of getting some pullage. When I launched the temperature on my fish finder
read 40.1 degrees. Shortly after I started
fishing I heard a “Fish On!” and turned to see my Dad’s rod doubled over and a
lot of splashing. Shortly afterwards he landed a nice 21in pickerel.
A few minutes later and he was hooked
into a second pickerel around the same size.
I was throwing my suspending jerkbait when it was hit by a feisty 15in Largemouth. I kept throwing my jerkbait and soon connected
with a bigger fish. This
fish stayed deep and bulldogged into the grass, but soon I boated a chunky
17.5in largemouth.
Photo
Credit: Richie Bekolay
I hoped that the bite would continue
to improve as the water warmed, but it did the opposite and dropped off. I kept fishing and picked up a nice 22in
pickerel near the end of the day.
As the weather warms and the local lakes thaw, break out
the kayak and try some winter bassin’!
Photo
Credit: Richie Bekolay
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