Fishing Log

Put a fork in it river is coming up 10ft by Friday!

04/01; Mid Northampton area of the river; shore; single dart 1/4 oz +; 2 hrs; 11 landed of 15 hooked. Mix of roes and bucks.

Radar: it’s not too early. A lot of fish through Easton already.

Well, I've chased off the skunk. I fished mid-day on Friday below Lambertville and caught 2 very energetic bucks on darts. I tried again yesterday a little later in the day, same place, and didn't get so much as a bump. The water dropped nicely from one day to the next and the clarity was excellent. I might try tomorrow early PM if the rain doesn't muck things up too much.

The updated phone number for the shad hotline is 610-774-8116...the previous number is not correct...please pass this on

Fished hard for 5 hours caught one buck and one walleye from shore.it was high and a little dangerous where I was fishing. Will only get better.both fish caught on spoons.also chucked darts but no hits.

My brother lives in Fishtown….these are all around.

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We destroyed them today between the down pours and debris. Poor mans downriggers got it done. Nothing on darts. even mix of buck and roe!! water temp was 45degrees.

DW; The Portland facility is all posted now. Doesn't matter as the absence of warm water attracting the shad make it no longer worthwhile to fish there.

Um no…… pickerel are an indigenous species and haven’t “ suddenly populated the area “. If you want to harvest them feel free, but they have just as much right to the river as shad. Your grandfather had the wrong idea. Getting back to fishing reports, significant numbers of fish are being caught mid river

I know we had a pond that had no pickerel in it.it was a paradise of large crappie yellow perch and bass.we never caught a pickerel and I caught one and threw it back.my grandfather told me I should of killed it .soon we caught lots of pickerel and less of everything else.we have been eradicating them but it seems once they become established your screwed.im sure they eat tons of shad fry but if they r already established there it will be hard to eradicate them.we have been killing them by the bucket full and it seems to make no difference so now we just throw them back.it seems we have less of everything since we did this but the perch crappie pickerel and bass we do have are bigger so they must also eat their own.

Been fishing a certain area on the Big D. for many years. Have caught everything that swims the river, including brook trout. It is a known shad spawning area. I have seen it designated as a shad area on old maps that are from the 1960's, and have had thousands of shad fry swimming around my waders in June. It's simply great habitat. Only once in a while through the years does anyone catch a pickerel in the area. Last fall I fished there (2.5 hrs.) and caught three very large pickerel, but nothing else. I fished there a week or 10 days ago (3.0 hrs.) when the water hit 44 degrees for a day and was up 3.5. feet over normal flow. Again, I caught 2 very large pickerel and also a smallmouth. I released all of them, as I always do. If you fished an area that produced all these varieties of species and was a known shad spawning area, do you think you should harvest these pickerel, which have suddenly populated the area?

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First St. Johns Florida shad reported 12/23. Identified as a Hickory by Bill Gordon.

Hi All, Whatever happened to the picture gallery that was on the site?

Fished Lambertville just because it's close to me. Did not read any fish. saw one zombie fish swimming around aimlessly. Saw a few dead shad...Looks like the run is over here.

The last 2 days there were schools of Shad fry coming down river in Easton area

Thanks...do you think I'd need to go like all the way up to Dingmans?

Marc, it is still possible but I would head north from easton up the further the better.

Fished doe hollow from 5 to 830 this am.Caught 3 early on small darts.Not many fish around.This spot should be loaded with spawning fish and they are not here.Last trip for this year despite good conditions most of the season worst year I ever had for catch rates.Very low numbers of fish this year Hopefully next year will be better and they don't shut it down.

I think it is some kind of shiner or trash fish.

Shad Harris I was thinking the same thing. Is it a hickory or American shad. Ps we talked about the handling of shad for future generations.

Caught and released a shad with corn bait on 4 lb test line.