Twin bridges 8/21/11
 

Me and Bohunterbiff (Robert) hit the twin bridges at Vernon lake yesterday. Bought half a pound of shiners. Started off fishing around 5pm or so. Set out shiners for white perch and ended up bass fishing til the sun went down. I caught 3 or 4 small ones and a "slot" fish---15". Also knocked off a fish on my bucket list....... A PICKEREL !!!!!!

Robert caught a solid 3 lb bass about 16" or so. Sun set and we dropped the submersible light in the water. Robert started slaying the white perch, but I couldnt buy one. Kept getting nailed by Gar.

Kept one bass and 2 white perch. About the time we called it, a family of 5 came and started fishing, ended up giving them the fish, and left over shiners. Made my day !!!

Here's a pic of my bass and the pickerel.

I gotta say, I've never even heard of such a fish before! It looks like a cross between a bass and a gar!

its in the same family as a pike that is caught up north. I was amazed. Guy at work said its a alligator gar. This thing was too green to be a gar.

caught them in black bayou lake by hosston la and alabama as well.

Doesn't even remotely look like an aligator gar. Scales are way different from any gar I've ever seen.

Chain Pickerel for sure,caught one in chicot a few years ago. They can get pretty big...

it was cool to knock this one off my bucket list. Thought i had to go further north to catch these !!!!

This is the fishing we are stuck doing until I get the steering fixed in my boat. The pickeral was a great bonus .... I used to fish for those all the time back east. Jordan slammed the bass on a crankbait.

sexy shad landed me alot of dinks, missed a biggun' that threw it when it shook its head like a trout !!

state record is like 4lbs but i know i've hooked a good 6-8lber before over there at chicot. SMOKED my frog! lol Indian creek is FULL of them

Those things are cool I use to catch them around Mandeville

Nice report and congrats on the bonus fish

thanks man !!!

Never herd of it either. Congrats on knocking it off your bucketlist.