Tuckahoe State Park

Type: Nontidal
Region: Eastern
Location: Tuckahoe State Park

I packed up early on Friday morning and went over the Bay Bridge to fish Tuckahoe State Park. The day was super calm, the sun never did come out and fog hung over the 60 acre lake the entire time. Geese, ducks, Kingfisher and otter where the only disrupters to the water's surface. My kayak slid across the pond like a drop of water on a window pane, leaving only a sliver of disturbance on the waters surface.

After a cast and retrieve, the ripples continued and would collide with the next cast's until the action of a catch disrupted the entire water's surface. I caught three largemouth bass and three pickerel using a #4 Mepps spinner, shad colored rattletrap and a gray blue 1/4oz swim jig.

The pond is small enough to work the bank line twice around (only 20 acres of the lake are actually navigable) in the short time I was there. The fish were where I suspected, the two points on the north end where water flowed into the pond and where the water is funneled down to exit at the west end.

My only frustration was that I had two break offs due to toothy fish.