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Fishing reports for Pa and New Jersey
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Delaware River--August 14, 2010
BWA TV producer Chris Manley was fishing with me on
the Delaware with his father, Jerry Manley, when he
boated this nice summertime smallie on a Dinger/Jig
combo.
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Blaine Mengel
Backwoods Angler Guide Service
www.backwoodsangler.com
Delaware River/West Br. Delaware River
Blaine's
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July 4
July is here and so is Summer Vacation. Rivers,
lakes and streams are full of anglers and those
wanting to enjoy the water. As much as I enjoy the
solitude, you can't fault people wanting to be on
the water. This time of year, I steal fishing
opportunities and rarely spend time mid day among
the masses or the heat.
Last Thursday afternoon, Ken V and I met on the
Delaware around 4PM and enjoyed that last several
hours of sunlight. Ken landed 13 smallies and I
landed 12 combining for 25. We caught most on Swim
Baits and Soft Jerk Baits. The Case Salty Minnow
being the hot bait of the afternoon. Lost of fun,
but the last hour proved to be more difficult than
planned - fish turned off a bit.
This Wednesday I woke up at 3AM and ran out to
Lake Wallenpaupack to fish with Wayne Serfass. We
were on the lake early and the smallmouth had
already pinned a large school of bait fish near
the surface. We caught 6 or 7 bass quickly
including some very nice ones to 18". Soft Jerks,
Top Water, Swim Baits and even Senkos took 14
smallmouth, 3 Pickerel and a 12-13 pound catfish.
Bass in 25' of water and catfish in 2' is quite
odd indeed.
Yesterday afternoon Ken and I took to the river
meeting at 4PM and being a cool afternoon I was
excited to see how the bass would react. First
hole yielded several bass on Swim Baits and the
size was improved from the week prior. Bass were
active most of the afternoon. We had 45 bass when
we both realized that it was getting dark fast. We
left biting fish but had no choice. Once again,
CASE 3.75" SSM and various Swim Baits took bass.
Current, rocky cover, flats and push water all
held bass.
Slide show for yesterday's outing is here;
http://outdoors.webshots.com/slideshow/578070625cKjpXe
For information on rigging and tactics for fishing
soft jerk baits, I've put a short article on my
blog. Don't hit the water without them.
http://chrisgsblog.backwoodsanglertv.com/
Have a GREAT Independence Day - Chris
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Chris Gorsuch
My Blog
Backwood Angler Guide Service
www.backwoodsangler.com
Susquehanna River/North Br. Susquehanna River
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March24
The Susquehanna River from Goldsboro to Duncannon is on
fire. Loads of big Smallmouth Bass are being caught on tubes
and hard jerkbaits. A trip on Sunday brought 8 or 9 fish
over 4 lbs to the boat. We caught around 30 fish and most of
them were in the 17-20" range. The Flathead bite is just
starting to show signs of coming to life as the water temps
near the 50 degree mark. Area lakes are also turning on.
Crappie and Bass are starting to move from the winter time
areas and are being caught on a variety of live baits and
artificial lures. Lake Redman and Lake Marburg are seeing
the most action. Guided trips are available in April and
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Dave Shindler
Jst Fishin Guide Service
www.jstfishin.com
Lower Susquehanna River
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March 26
Beltzville Lake-
Water
temp Ranging from the high fifty's to low
sixty's. Large mouth and small mouth moving into
the shallows and are hitting soft
plastics,crankbaits and jigs. Some fish are
already spawning.
Lake Hopatcong water temps are from mid fifty's to
sixty degrees. While fishing 2 days on lake, I
had 11 largemouth with a 4lb largemouth being the
largest. Numerous reports of 17" fish being
caught on senkos and sweetbeavers. Watermelon
color was the best over the weekend.
Scott won the Hopatcong Tourney last weekend.
Congrats Scott!
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Scott Johnson
Tournament Angler
Greenwood Lake, NY
Lake Hopatcong, NJ
Beltzville, PA
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See you in the
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Dave Fetterolf
Fetterolf's Fishing Adventurers
www.fishingphilly.com
Marsh Creek Lake, PA |
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April
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Lake Wallenpaupack-
Bill reports that the elevated air temps and nice
weather raised water temps up into the 70s' and
smallmouth are loaded up in the shallows around the
whole lake. They're eating Senkos, Tubes and 3" swim
baits. Stripers being caught on live herring and
larger swimbaits in the dam area.
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Bill Albright
Bill's Guide Service
www.billsguideservice.com
Lake Wallenpaupack, PA |
Hello my fitch'n frenz!
Way overdue for a fishing report.
It's mostly been a trout fishery on Lake Ontario
with an occasional king salmon gracing our catches.
As you will see by the photos, the brown trout are
plump and plentiful. This time of the season brown
trout are not far off. One hundred feet of water
will generally put you in position for browns. Their
preferred temperature is 63 to 55 degrees
Fahrenheit. Pay attention to speed at the lure. Use
Michigan Stingers and R&R razor spoons and it's
pretty much a done deal.
Back on July 14 Kevin and Julie
Reaume from Syracuse, NY along with Stephen Shen
from Hamilton, NY spent the morning on Lake Ontario
trolling for browns. A successful morning it was!
Here is Julie with double browns caught on one rod.
It was a busy morning with a limit of fish and a
handful of released ones.
On the afternoon of July 14, Mike
Sattler, President of Bryant & Straton College in
Syracuse, NY brought some of his administrative
staff, Andy Cunningham, Jim Evans and retiring Dean
(25 years) Bill Rauscher for a lake Ontario charter.
The browns cooperated again. Another limit catch
including a couple king salmon.
The next day Tom (retired medical
examiner) and Rosemary Smith, Rochester, NY,
children and grandchildren Len, Hunter, and Conner
Ray of Atlanta GA. got in on the excellent brown
trout fishing. They also boated a nice steelhead and
small king. They only kept what they would
eventually eat.
Reid Muller, Syr., NY and his Air
National Guard buddies, Huey Magee, Huey's son
Scott, and Bob Graham were up for their annual
outing and likewise got in on the brown trout
fishing. That morning, Lake Ontario was pushing 3 to
4 feet waves with a stiff wind from the west.
Despite the challenging conditions we did manage to
land a handful.
Jerry Brislin, Liverpool, NY, his
sister Katie and brother-in-law, Pat Moore, Albany,
NY enjoyed their brown trout outing on Lake Ontario
on July 19. Another day, another limit. Katie aka
"calculus katie" a top notch student of mine at OCC
in 1982 landed the largest brown at 12 lbs.
More reports will be on the way. I have quite a back
log of excellent catches. At this point in the
season, expect the kings to be here in force. I
still have openings in Aug. and Sept.
Remember, "Don't start anything you can't fish",
cap'n tony
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Lake Ontario/Lake Oneida, NY
Tony Bufa
www.captaintonybuffafishingcharters.com
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Pymatuning Lake
Dave Richter over at Chris' Tackle Box in
Jamestown is declaring 2010 the "Year of the Crappie" at
Pymatuning.
"Here it is going into mid July, and they are still catching
crappies really good."
The fish are on deep structure offshore during the
daylight hours on brushpiles, cribs, stump fields, and
channel lips. At
dusk, crappies have been moving shallower, especially along
the Epsyville/Andover Causeway where anglers have been
catching them with a minnow under a bobber.
Richter also notes that numbers of walleye
are being caught, but the nice size ones are rather spotty.
"A guy might have a limit of keepers and if he is
lucky there will be one or two 'eye in the 20- to 24-inch
range. There are
two basic ways live bait guys are catching them: When the
wind blows, they are drifting with a jig tipped with a
nightcrawler.
When the lake is flat, they are trolling a worm harness with
a nightcrawler.
Of course, you always have a good number of fishermen
pulling Hot-N-Tots and catching walleye.
It may seem odd, but that has been the go-to plug
here for years.
Some new plug may catch a few walleye for a while, but it
never seems to last.
Our fishermen are always going back to the
Hot-N-Tot."
Richter reports two nice musky catches this
past week:
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--list--48"
musky on live bait, caught by Chelsey Gault - a local angler |
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--list--45"
musky on a Grandma Lure, caught by Johnny Bresman - a local
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Channel cats and yellow perch are also
biting.
Conneaut Lake
Anxious to try out Berkley's new one-inch
Gulp! Alive! Baits for panfish, Marilyn and I headed to
Conneaut Lake the other afternoon for bluegill fishing.
This time of year bluegills are schooled on the
outside edge of weedbeds and deeper.
We used drop-shot rigs to fish a variety of soft
plastic and the Gulp! baits side by side to see which would
work best. Gulp!
won hands down, out-fishing ordinary soft plastic by 10 to
1. We had the
one-inch Cricket, Fish Fry and Leech, but did not have a jar
of the one-inch Minnows.
In terms of catching bluegills, the Cricket was far
superior to the Fish Fry and Leech.
Allegheny River
My blog entry about smallmouth fishing on
the Allegheny over the July 4th weekend (see
www.darlblack.blogspot.com), prompted a comment from
Randy (from Saegertown, I believe).
On July 6, during a solo kayak float on the
Allegheny, Randy landed a 19-inch, two 18-inch, a 17-inch
and five smaller bass.
And he lost a "ton" of smallmouth that jumped
repeatedly. The
fish were hanging near riffles, and all were caught on a
Jitterbug. "It
was my best day so far this year," he added.
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Darl Black
http://darlblack.blogspot.com/
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