Scott's Run 6/27

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Took my nephew over to the lake a few hours Sunday afternoon. Fished minnows and meal worms. Bite was slow. A few small perch, some nice fat bluegills, and a 13 inch bass. Saw a few pickerel cruising the banks but not luck getting them to bite.

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If you want to have a great time on Scotts Run chasing the Pickerel around just head out there with a white Strike King Mini-King Buzzbait. I have had some awesome trips to that lake fishing for Pickerel. Head to the upper end in the shallow weedy water; that's where they will be hiding.

[fishingpaul]

I'm going to have to try this lake out again. Hadn't fished it for 15 years and wasn't impressed then.
I would love to get my son into some pickeral.
Are they more active in the day or night?

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Actually the numerous decent trips I've had down there were when I decided to take a half day off work and head down there around noon or so during the week. I would be the only boat on the lake; the sun was high in the sky and those pickerel were too anxious to hit the buzzbait. Please note that I never really caught any monsters; the largest ever on Scott's Run was about 15-16" but it was still a ton of fun. My best trip down there was two years ago in the middle of the summer (fishing from around 12:30 PM to around 4:00 PM and I landed 15 of them and lost a few others. It's kind of neat fishing for them that way because you can see the wake they create as they started chasing the buzzbait; almost like a small V heading towards the bait. The hard part though is being patient and not setting the hook too quickly.

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Thanks for the tip. Do you fish from a boat? I'm land-locked. Will I be able to access the far end. I've done all my fishing along the spillway and boat dock area.

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I do fish from a boat; but when I got back up to the end of the lake I had to pull my trolling motor out of the water and paddle around because it got so shallow. I am not sure if you can access the lake from shore up there but I would imagine it could be safe to wade all the way up there because it is so shallow. I know the creek channel gets very deep down towards the dam end and at least half way up but I honestly can't say what the creek channel actually does further up-lake. About 1/3-1/2 way up the lake it drops off into 16+' pretty quickly in the channel.

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Thanks. I'll have to look into it next time I'm there.

[wader105]

Just be careful wading uplake (opposite end from the dam). There are several areas with really soft silt that you can sink in 6"-12" and possibly lose a boot or get super stuck and take an unexpected dip. Yeah - speaking from experience : O