Fishing Log

Fished Narrowsburg last night PA boat launch. Fished about an hour around 7:00. Hooked up with two, landed one nice roe.

8 for 9 tonight couple big roe in mix. Not consistent, but not bad for 2.5 hours. better than last week.

Rob, had occasion to drive by Dingmans today and the parking lot/boat launch area is still closed. I got the same information from the toll collectors as Riverwolf: April 15th, which is a day that rain is called for. Sometimes it's hard to hit the right combo.

Is dingmans open yet? I seen on Facebook that someone did well there yesterday.

Caught 4 today. Had a few more bumps. They are here just not real active just yet.

How's shore fishing at Easton lately?

Report from Easton on Saturday..fished with Steve from 6-4..caught 17 mixed bucks & roe..slowed way down in the afternoon

Gap report - boat today, waders yesterday morning. Yesterday my buddy and I waded NJ side in the park for 2.5 hours, and I landed 6 with over 10 hits, and my shad buddy got 9 and as many bumps. One other angler, and he got a few as we left. Fly rod guy coming down the bank as I left. We headed up there this morning with boat same area and anchored in all the usual best spots to anchor and it was dead. One hit. Wasted 2 valuable hours. Went back south to the launch found 6' of water in wider slower shallow water surrounded mostly by 4' or less. Not really what I would call a channel but still 2' deeper than the rest of the wide slower stretch. Just enough current to have a spoon wobble but spoons were waste of time we only got one on a Dave's blade orange/yellow small spoon. Low clear water - dart time. I had two rods out with 1/8 ounce inline sinkers and 1/32 ounce hot pink head white body darts and they were getting lit up. Tried fishig 1/4 ounce closer to boat but could not get bit - not enough current to get it to lay right. Eventually switched over to all light weights and 1/32 ounce darts of hot pink or bright green chartreuse. All rods then getting hit wide left wide right 45 degree rods and right down the middle. We found the slot. The bite slowed around noon and I rigged up a rod with a 3 way swivel, 1/32 ounce bright greenie on the longer leader and a 1/16 ounce hot pink head white body on the shorter leader. Very light setup - took one long cast and set - instant hookup... Hot rod now - all else being ignored. Changed over one of the spoon rods to same exact setup and that rod then took over. If you picked one of those up and twitched it - all the better and often rewarded with a hit. Those rods were the hot rods rest of the way in 55 degree crystal clear water in rain all day. Quit before 3pm started at 7:30 but first two hours were wasted. 32 netted - lots of other hits never hooked. Far from what I would call "wild" or quality shad fishig but the two us had one triple header landed and one double rest all singles so just a slow, steady pick except for some 30 minute lulls and the last hour basically nothing hence we left. Only once, did two shad hit the double dart rig and of course it snapped the 8lb floro leader and only ended up with an average buck. Not one other person fishing from shore and no other boats.

We caught a couple here and there between new hope and tinicum today. A bit of a slow pick through out the river. Even mix of roe and buck. Flutterspoons on flat lines with a 1/4 oz weight worked best a couple on crankbait rigs too.

Broke the ice. Caught only one above Shawnee. Best is yet to come.

Curious about the fishing around port jervis up to the manguap river? Feels like it’s almost time.

Joseph, the shad you saw jumping must have been a) happy, b) chased by humongous stripers, or c) thrilled by sensing the presence of fresh water, or d) none of the above. Years ago I saw a lot of them exposing their dorsal fins just below the New Hope rapids but I can't say I've ever seen them breaching the water outside of being hooked. Pretty neat.

I grabbed an hour's fishing at the Trenton bridge yesterday. It happened to be right at the slack of high tide which is not much good there, generally. With 5 guys fishing I only saw one buck caught and not by me. It was a beautiful afternoon, though. Funny thing, I saw shad breaching out on the river, just jumping straight up all the way out of the water and coming down with a big splash. I've never seen that before and yesterday I saw it 4 or 5 times, clear as clear. Any explanations?

Anyone have any reports/information about fishing at Conowingo?

Whats up ya'll, my name is Jesse. I just moved back to upper Bucks county and I am excited to be able to fish the shad run again. I'm looking for some shoreline access (doesn't have to be easily accessible either) between say Lambertville and Mitford. I'm gonna be fishing from the bank casting flutter spoon off a crankbait. Help a brother out!!! Thanks

I guess the guy from Tunisia was trying to tell us the shad are in. Get this pos off the blog

Caught 10 today from 11 to 3......all fish caught after noon......Water temp 50......mostly small bucks.....

I was on the river this morning fishing with Charlie 1st. We stopped counting at 25 shad. Some of the roe weighed 5lb. There were numerous Chinese fire drill doubles. The shad slammmed Kevin Ingram's flutter spoons and the spoons held up well. It looks to be a great run this year.Hope the weather holds and the river stay at this very fishable level.

To clarify, I'm basically jigging them up and down as they swing across the current, and the grabs are usually right as the dart falls back down the water column.

Worthington campground area yesterday afternoon. I was the only on shore, two boats showed up late but too far away to see if they were catching. Got one lively buck around 4:00 on a gold dart and a small bass at 6:00ish. So much information here, I feel a bit like a dinosaur using a single dart. I'll try a further South later this week or weekend. Thanks!

Way to go David! Our east coast shad are worth the drive. David, the fly people I've talked with don't use darts as much as they use flashy streamers on the shortish side. Picture gold hooks in the size 4 or 2 range, some glitterboo and a fluorescent bead. I think they're not trying to get too deep and thereby avoiding leaving too many hooks in the bottom.>>>>>...And, please, unnamed one, let sleeping trolls lie!

Got my first of the season tonight from shore and lost another. Water temp was about 52 around 5:00pm.

They're here in the north.

Sorry no .... but Carl has some corn if you need though......