Fishing Log

I got by the Fairmount Dam yesterday afternoon just in time for the top of the tide. It was a 1st cast Hickory and then pretty good fishing for the next couple hours. I ended up with around 15 Hickories, 3 American, 1 Herring, and 3 catfish (!) I lost another half dozen good fish, probably American. I don't know why the catfish were so bitey. I've caught one on occasion, but never three, and all on darts. The Americans were feisty and the Hickories all as crazy as usual.

Tried River for an hour or so, 5 till 6, from shore but able to reach main channel at a thin part of the river, pink n green darts, river temp 53ish ,caught nothing! Tackle shop guy said he thinks main body of fish is still south of Pike, for what its worth. Thanks everyone for the updates, its encouraging

They reported they did ok the other night

Update for Conowingo dam fishing. Fenced off from the fishing platform to the trail to deer creek

Fished from 1230 to 630. Boated 26 lost 1. Temp 55, water clarity good, minimal wind.

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Must have gotten some bad information on the shad in the Susquehanna. No closed seasons in the last 20 years that I know of. The location of the old bridge piers is at least a half mile down river from Deer Creek.However the lovely folks at Excelon have posted no trespassing signs on the gate to the trail down river from the parking lot. Avian bird flu.

I recall NJDF&W contracting Lewis, Lambertville to net them. The shad were placed in a circular pool with circulating pumps, the shad swimming in the circular current. Grabbed individually by hand the shad were stabbed, near the dorsal fin, with a spaghetti tag. Often it was stab -"miss", stab - "miss", and on,...until a tag was finally anchored in the flesh. Many of the shad released were partially descaled from the net / handling. Some swam away upstream,....some lay still on the bottom of the river,.......others became "down-runners": captured downstream,..never having reached their spawning grounds. Who knows, perhaps all the well-meaning catch & release angling over the years is having a similar traumatic effect. 30 shad / day,....how many does one have to catch in order to be satisfied? A. Shad are fragile fish. From the egg stage to adult, every predator is after them.

Fished Zane Grey from shore tonight 3:30-5:30 hooked 3 landed 0 water temp. 53 deg. There were about 10 guys fishing and I only saw 1 shad landed and about 6 hooked and not landed. At lest the wind wasn't bad tonight.

Fished easton 7 to 10 caught 0 saw 1 or 2 caught.went south below Stockton caught 11 out of 14 all buck 1 to 3 pounds.good action for an hour then it shut down.

ShadHarris- Agree with you on the early runners as in the past I have caught fish the last week in Feb at the now gone Trenton Power plant, In my experience the main run always came through the lower river in mid April, but his year the fish have been far and few between down my end!

ShadHarris- Not sure what you are perplexed about, the fish just are not there the way they used to be. Yeah I know that sometimes some people might find a school and have a decent day, but I Remember how it used to be back in the late 80’s when you could catch them all day long and get into to some 7 & 8 lb roes. it hasn’t been that way for over 20 years! Some might theorize that fish populations are cyclic others may argue that it is due to mismanagement! You be the judge!

Fished north of dingmans from 1230 to 630. Boated 31, lost over a dozen. Some wind, water receding, temp between 48 and 51. Clarity ok. Wind a pain in the ass. Going out tomorrow around 1pm, reportedly little to no wind.

Tough night just N of gap. My buddy and I each got 2 from shore. Water was barely 49-50 on my mercury thermometer. It was windy at times but conditions felt like it should have easily been a 20+++ shad a person session between 3:30 and 6pm but the fish said otherwise. I think 3 days of chilling falling temps took its toll. But wtf do I know ?

Fished from 10 noon to 5pm. Boated 41, lost several. Water temp 51, clarity getting better, falling rivet, horrendous wind.

Has any one fished by Belvidere bridge from shore lately?

Fished Worthington on Monday for 7 hours. Two other people on the river and two boats nearby. Other than the 1 fish I caught there was only one that I saw caught on the boat nearby. When I spoke with the others fishing from the bank when I was leaving thay had been there as long as I was and neither even had a hit. So far not a good year.

First time out.river high cloudy cold.fished Stockton area from shore from 7 to 1030.tried darts and spoons nothing.then put on quarter ounce walleye jig and hooked what I thought was a big walleye turned out to be big shad.spit jig at my feet.then I had several follows on darts but no hits.water needs to warm up hopefully will drop and warm up for next week.

Got in an hour at the river in Trenton yesterday early afternoon. Caught 2 on darts fishing pretty hard. It was just starting to get active as I had to leave.

Fished Zane Grey tonight 3:30- 6 caught 6 shad had twice as many hits that didn't hook up fished from shore double darts. Water temp, 52.52 deg. finally no wind tonight.

Sorry I meant “Rob W”

I don't understand how such things can be, but I stopped at the Schuylkill yesterday afternoon expecting a pleasant couple hours of catching and only got an exhausting, long spell with nothing. I finally hooked a nice shad, fought it in close enough to see the beautiful lilac color, and it spit the dart back at me. That was it. I left humbled and my arm was sore. Pfah!

Fished from 1230 to 1800. Best day in years Several triples, numerous doubles, large roe some bucks .Boated 61, lost over a dozen, and had numerous bumps. Water temp 51, no debris, windy, water clarity minimal..

Well finally action three this morning 7:30 to 8:30 Nine This evening 5 to 7 had number of bumps misses and let go's too. Water height good and temp rising and just as I thought we're out of the woods a nasty cold snap coming with some rain and high winds so that'll mess it up for awhile. Gene I imagine they still go up the lackawaxen. Years ago I caught a couple there fishing for trout with a silver spinner