Fishing Log

Caught 6 hickory shad with teasers in the Manasquan surf tonight. Landed 36 shad at Manasquan recently.

Caught 9 hickory shad on teasers. Released 3.

Caught and released 4 18” hickory shad last night and 7 this evening with teasers and a Bomber on the Manasquan Inlet north jetty.

After my boat sat at Silver Cloud Marina for 6 months without being repaired I took it to Paul DeRosa at Cranberry Lake Marina. I dropped it off Monday and it was fixed by Friday. Excellent service

Fished narrowsburg yesterday.caught 11 on fly rod including 2 on a sulfur dry fly during evening hatch fishing for trout.this puzzles me as I have caught them before up here like this and they were purposefully hitting the flies on top and r stuffed full of them.spawning just starting up here lots of fresh fish plenty of smart trout as well.will probably go up further next week if river doesn't get blown out.

Fished lordville Tue and wed and crushed them.fishing was best early morning and evening.Small spoons worked well color unimportant lots of fresh fish up here not spawning yet.water temp is 49.

Fished Milford today and whooped em.stopped counting after 50 on spinning rod caught 17 on fly rod .pretty much every cast from 530 til 930 then it slowed down to a trickle.also got a nice striper on dart.all on red and white small dart no weight and flashy orange fly.fish r spawning now lots of dead ones as well.might get another week in water is warming up.need to go above narrowsburg for best fishing cooler water soon.

Fished north of dingmans from 4 to 7pm . Boated four shad lost 2. Two walleyes and several bass ended my shad fishing season. Water temp 65, murky, and many shad dying on surface. Total # of shad boated 283. See you next year.

28 caught and released. They are still moving upriver. Not done just yet.

Caught 5 in fast water around Eshbach this evening from shore on different colors. Nothing of size and not the feistiest. Probably just let it go until next year.

Fished north of dingmans from 2pm to 7pm. Caught 21 lost over ten. Water temp 70, water not clear, river snot gone by evening. Had to kill one buck. Also caught 3 bass and 2 walleyes. One 22 inches long.

Took wife on a boat ride north of dingmans from 1pm to 2pm. Just joking around, caught 4. Water temp 67, stained and up. Going out tomorrow afternoon Shad Harris. I feel your pain. Blame Putin

first year probably in 40 years I did not launch boat at Eshback all season the water level been running high to launch there. So today I did. What a sh#t show that launch has turned into. All washed out, and the rocky launch was covered with non-english speaking people such that I could not even drive on it. I backed boat straight in down the narrow path but then all the parking for trailer was taken up by HIKERS for the McDaid trail. I had to parky way up in the field. THIS IS WRONG on both counts. Tried a few of my historic prime spots but impossible to fish with the debris and rock snot. Lost two shad hookups. Put two catfish lines in above a 10' hole and battled a big one for a while. Got it up to boat, looked about 10-12# and I did forget the net and hook pulled but would have released her anyway. I think I am done for the seaon. Not a banner run IMHO but had a lot of good relaxation time and had several good sessions but mainly wading and only one good boat trip all season N of gap.

Slow day at Smithfield. Stuck with it and scratched out a dozen. Between quick strikes and releases, lost another 8. Orang and black worked best. Got out just before the storm came in.

36 today. Best outing of the year. Most were Nice roe and looked to be fresh fish. Dart color really didn’t matter they were bangin everything.

12 today most all nice Roe.

Well, my season is about done. The Schuylkill is at about 67F and the shad are either into spawning or about to be. I don't care to get involved in that. I've had a fairly good season and now it's time to turn my attention toward the salt water. Good luck, all!

Anthony, if the water temps soar into the upper sixties the spawning will really kick I on especially from the gap south.you should fish the upper river from narrowsburg up for the best fishing.the water is much colder so the fish hit better and spawn a little later.i have caught them up at stiles eddy as late as July 4th.good luck.

Does anybody have an opinion about how this weekends extreme heat will effect the shad?

I took a ride up to Easton yesterday morning and fished the confluence from 10:00 to 1:00. Mediocre results. The guy fishing near me caught at least 10 to my 4. He was using a candy corn jig with a yellow little curly tail on it. Just cast it out and reeled it in. The fish thought it was just right. My double darts were not. I didn't get sunburned!

Best morning from shore this season going 26/27 all on double pink or double candy corn darts, my buddy did about the same. Mostly roe. Landed a double and had one double of big roe bust me off otherwise would have landed all hookups. Boats below us not catching a darn thing.

Anthony, not yet. 611 still closed, recent news story said it should open by early summer.

Fished Bushkill on the 12th. and only picked up 13. Fished from 6am to 6pm. Very slow. Fished N of Dingmans on the 13th. all day did not even get a bump. The river must be getting a cold, a lot of snot coming down. Tight Lines

13 on the 13th. wading this morning 5:30-8:15. Had 6 before 6am thought would be epic. But I cooled down and scratched out 7 more. My buddy started slow and ended with 22! Neither of us lost any hookups and half were nice fresh healthy roe with several over 5 lbs. 1/16 ounce candy corn darts were beat. Only got one on spoon. My buddy got all his on that dart as well.