Fishing Log

25 for 35. 47 degree water. Fat roe around.

Finally hit one tonight and lost another wading in Easton.

Nice going Dave & Rusty. I couldn't make it early, and had to leave early. Sop, I missed the big bite. Oh, well; it's early, and I'll get on them soon.

I can't tell from the posts how many of those reporting catches are fishing from shore. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks!

Hooked 2 bucks Saturday early afternoon just below the boat launch. Red & red/yellow dart.

Fishing Report - 4/6/19 Fished the Potomac at Fletchers Boathouse for the first time after hearing about it for a long time. The water temps (in my opinion) were still al little cold so I decided to do some exploring..... Fished from the bank using double cart rig along with a friend. I fished from 645 am and it was literally a hit on every cast for first two hours of light! I quit at 12:15 PM after landing my 101st HICKORY shad...the American shad supposedly will show up in another week of so. The run of hickories this year is incredible in both numbers and size, with many fish exceeding two pounds and 16-18 inches (which is a big hickory!) I'm hoping the American shad are equally as big and numerous when the bite gets good in the Delaware. This warming trend is going to improve the bite and shad will be caught way above the Water Gap......Hows that one Carl? haha

My first shad report and trip of season. Made the long ass drive south to launch boat in New Hope area. Saw a few boats catching here and there. Water temp 47.5 to start at 11am. Quit at 3:30 water temp 49. Boated 10 of 14 a few decent roe. Very sporadic seemed like when we did get a hit it was a double. The guy that runs charters and floats his anchor in between sessions seemed to do the best but nothing I would call wild action for anyone based on what it 'could' be but it' been a very cold spring once again. I will call it a good start all in all. I thought rock snot was only a north of the Gap problem, but the green slime was real bad and definitely impacts what you want to do.

Why has W.G. been so quiet? I need a good fish story.

Fished 3 hours in Riegelsville an only landed one shad. Marked practically nothing on fish finder. I did someone else catch one and that was it. Unbelievable the difference in the amount of fish that were in Frenchtown yesterday and lack of even marking fish in Riegelsville. Frenchtown had a nonstop stream of fish on my sonar. Riegelsville today you could go 20 plus minutes without marking a single fish. Head south if your looking to catch multiple fish. They should be in Riegelsville by midweek.

Fished south of Frenchtown today landed 89 on a 7hour trip. Water was 45.3 at start and 49.8 at the end. No difference or preference with colors,fish hit what ever you threw at them.

Fished the gap area today for an hour or so slinging darts from shore no takers

ryan you gotta figure it out if it hits bottom reel in some line...you wanna be 1-2 ft off bottom

Why I let out my dipsey diver for Shad how much line do I let I run out from the back of my boat I usually am anchored anywhere from 2-8 ft

Not a touch below Lambertville yesterday afternoon/evening. End of the Earlys I guess.

Went out for an hour to run the boat no hits a ton of slime on the downriggers and line

Spade and Howie and the rest of the crew, decided to scrap fishing for today because of up coming hi-wind conditions. Will give it a try early next week.

Is it worth trying tomorrow in easton? What is water temp?

ANY REPORTS OF SHAD UP IN DELAWARE WATER GAP.

Fishing report 3/26-3/30-had a work schedule last week driving to North Carolina and South Carolina (from pa.) so I was able to stop at several locations in both states. 3/26 I caught 2 American shad at the Neuse River NC below the Falls lake dam. 3/27 I fished the Tar River NC in Rocky Mount for 1.5 hours and landed 9 Americans and 1 hickory shad. 3/28 and 3/29 I fished the Santee Cooper rediversion canal at St Stevens SC and landed 20 + American shad in about 2 hours before dark both evenings... they were about half spawned out and half fresh, predominantly roes In the 4/4+ Weight range, which are BIG for southern shad! Started driving home on 3/30 and stopped at the Tar River again, landing 6 American shad but losing 15 or more others...fish were hitting strange and spitting the dart? Stopped at a tributary of the Susquehanna River in the evening on 3/30, and caught several hickory shad, the first “local” shad I have caught this year.... the hickories are definitely on the big side as well... looks like a good year in the ocean feeding and surviving. All shad caught on double dart rigs, 1/4 oz with 1/16 ox trailer... color does NOT matter!

Fished Easton Saturday from 6-6 Caught first Shad at 1010 Ended up with 6 shad

Picked one up on a flat line in 1 hr of fishing north of reigelsville. Water temp around 48. Lost an anchor. Gotta weld up a new one before I head back out tomorrow.

Got one at worthington

Launched from Yardley Wednesday & Thursday caught shad both days

Went out from Yardley to Calhoun St today from 5-730pm. No bites. Water temp were 45 degrees.