Fishing Log

Fished Zane Grey this morning 6:30 - 8:00 not a bump but almost no rock snot.

Fished above Dingman's area last night. 59 degree water, boated 22 along with one nice smallmouth. Everything was caught on plug rigs. Aggressive fish, had about 7 that swallowed the spoon completely.

Fished today from 630am to 1pm. Landed 40 shad all on plug rigs. Fish are higher in the channel now due to warm water. 64 degrees today in 5ft, River had dropped due to lack of rain. River dirty up some and had to check lines frequently. Mostly smaller fish now..end of the run will be coming soon in the lower river. Tight lines and see u on the river.

Fished in Trenton on May 8 at 7:00-8:30 am on an incoming tide, and caught 1 shad and 6-8 herring. Also fished from 1:00-2:30 pm outgoing tide and caught 2 shad and 4-6 herring It's taking a lot more casts to catch the shad now. The game warden has been very active in my area...don't keep any herring! If you do it cost you $50 a fish.

ShadHarris...you finally connected on one of my spoons! LOL. Sounds like the skinny candy corn spoon.

21 of 28 i gap area from 5:10pm to 7:40pm. Not the best action I have ever seen, but not the worst either. Somewhere in between. Small pink and white darts were hot until 6:30 then went dead, Switched to a small bright yellow spoon with orange head and gold on other side, and nailed another 11. First time fishing from shore I ever got more on spoons than darts. Nice to be prepared to give them what excited them the most.

Rattles are fine,no need to black out the plugs. Use plugs that will get you roughly 2/3 of the way to the bottom of the water your fishing in. For water up to 8ft I use 3to5 ft diving plugs,for 10-12ft water I use 5-8ft diving plugs. You can troll if the water is a consistent depth. But I would suggest anchoring in a pinch point where the water slopes deeper behind boat forcing the shad up to you. Good luck

Lunch time today at the Eddy below Lambertville. I hit the May trifecta with shad (1), herring (10 or so) and stripers (2 little ones, but nice to see them again.) All on back dart of a double dart rig. Shadbobo, I think that everybody trying for the big spawning striper figure that they are looking for tasty herring and throw plugs that match that profile, not in color but in size and splash. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd hit a bucktail if they were around and hungry. I am no expert, though.

Fished at confluence on Sunday. Landed around 40 or so with my good friend Jay. Best day for big fat momas. Lots of releases but no fish on, and a few that just got off. Other boats doing well also. Started slow, for us, but Rusty was on them when we arrived. Once we got going, it was pretty good with few slow times. Took advantage of slow time to eat and fuel up for the fast action later. Got off the water just in time to stay dry. Mostly orange and black, and fish were a few feet off the bottom. Seems to be a ton of fish there every year that can't find the ladder to run the Lehigh. Engineering issue when ladders were installed I guess. Tight lines guys!

Fished Sunday afternoon at Easton with my nephew and caught 25 shad in 5 hours. It wasn't crazy fishing but was enough to make it a good day. Had a couple of lulls of 30 minutes to an hour and then it would pick up again. Water was 61 when we started and 60.5 when we left. Fished in the rain until it slowed for a bit and then took the boat out before heavier rain came in. Fish were hitting both diving plugs and downriggers. Black and orange, yellow and orange and purple were all catching. It was nice to be able to fish and not have to clean your lines every 5 minutes.

Started at a spot in Milford this morning with no bumps. Sopped by my local bait shop on the way to Matamoras and grabbed a couple flutter spoons, and a dart color, white with chartreuse top, that the owner said seemed to be producing a bit more than other colors. Managed 10 for 16 over 3.5 hours, with a walleye. A slow pick, but much better than what I've been seeing.

Complete and utter shad beat-down just N of Bushill from 3:15pm to 6:45 tonight. Mostly roe 4 to 4.75 lbs. I set the first rod and it hooked up before my hand left the rod holder - instantl, and it was a stream of doubles and triples for first 1/2 hour, landing 12 in 30 minutes before a welcome lull. Hit 50 in the net at 6:30pm (we use I pitch counter for the hell of it), and 50 was the number we said "enough is enough" except we still had 3 lines and and wham - triple and we landed all 3 and got the hell out of there leaving a mad bite. I have seen a lot of great shad bites and I really don't like to fish for shad much more than 3-4 hours that is enough for me, but this is probably a top 10 session in my 40+ years of catching them. All they wanted was hot pink head, glow white body, UV pink or UV pearl tales in sizes 1/16 and 1/32... Tried other colors just to see, tried spoons just to see, but there was no point just gave them what they wanted. It was nice to drop anchor and never have to move and catch them on both sides of the boat and down the middle -clicking on all cylinders... As awesome as this night was, I still prefer catching them in the waders! This was after getting up 4:30am to catch 18 from shore this morning, I am beat.

Killed them in Easton today next to Rusty and and the boys in the boats from shore... 25-30. Home my 1pm.

Only had one today I can't find them!

Fished Zane Grey launch this morning 6:30 - 9:00 hook 20 only landed 11 foul hook 2 and many hits that didn't hook up water temp 58.

18 of 24 this morning from shore, gap area, 3 were bucks. Started very very slow for me then sort of got in a groove for a while then it died at 9am and I left.

Fished Gap area tonight 5-7:30 in crystal clear 60 degree water still running a tad high but otherwise excellent conditions. "Sporadically good" is how I would describe it, there were several times during the session I got 3 fish on 3 consecutive cast, but then 20 casts with nary a bump. At times it was windy, at times it was calm. Nice balmy weather. 1/32 hot pink head glow white body was great for the first hour but ended last hour with 1/32 chartreuse & bright green to scratch out 16 of 21 hookups.

WG or anyone, know if they are still catching shad at Connowingo dam? Thanks ken

Anyone have an opening for 2 people for tomorrow, Sat, May 5? grossman_hampton@yahoo.com

Heading for the confluence for an hour or 2 fishing this afternoon. Leave me some fish, please.

Started out below Riegelsville. 9 for 14 then left ran for lunch. Headed north and went 1 for 2 then back down to a different spot below Riegelsville and went 5 for 6. More debris toward the end of the day. Water started out at 57.2 and ended at 59.4. Fished from 11 to 6.

Fished in Trenton between 8:00 to 10:00 am; to mid tide. Same as Yesterday went 2 for three...no roe shad. One of the shad had a lamprey stuck to it...never seen that on any shad I caught before. Also caught 8 herring, and a small mouth bass. The two guys I was fishing from shore with, also caught about the same number of shad. The water was fairly clear, and didn't have a lot of debris. Till next time.

Fished from 7am-2pm- hooked 2 - very windy- slow fishing

Onemoreshad, what part of the lower river are you referring to? It was a super slow afternoon where I am and I did not see much rod bending. I'm just curious and not looking for any specific spots. Thanks in advance