Fishing Log

Went 14 for 20 this am in 3hrs. Water temperature 55. Water stained. and dropped about 12inches from Sunday. Still debris showers predicted will help keep flow up. Back out tomorrow with 2 newbies. Hope action is consistent. Ended the am with a 6.5lb roe. All on chart/ spoons. Hope to see all at the shad mtg tomorrow night. Bring your friends too. Don't miss this great event.!

We had a good evening from the boat caught 25 shad. Did a little exploring north of Easton and ran into our buddy Bob Wambold. He anchored up behind us and proceeded to put on a clinic with numerous triples landed by himself!!!Catching a lot more bucks last night. Hopefully this action holds up till this weekend

Fished from shore tonight, got on river 4:40, quit at 7:40. I lost count around 15 and that was just under an hour. It got even better during hour 2, and hour 3 was about same as hour 1 overall. Often, it was a fish on every cast. At times, it took 5 or 6 casts. Only one roe. Great awesome session, once again. Really liking the 2017 Shad run so far.

20 shad boated today. Many LDR's too. Water temperature 53.5. Lots of debris still coming down. Water stained, about 1ft visibility. All on spoons chart/red, org/blk, pink/blk. Saw a few fello boats..,,not much success. One landed a legal striper on swim shad. River dropped aout a ft from yesterday. Tight lines..,,see u on the river. Kevin

Riverwolf, thanks, I'll give it a go next week!

Here's an oddity. Was fishing with waders yesterday (Good Friday) in Tusten, NY. Shad were the farthest thing from my mind, being 25 miles upstream of Port Jervis. I was catching a few smallies and chubs when I threw out my 1/8th ounce silver Kastmaster, let it sink, made 2 cranks of the handle and an average-size buck shad hit the damn thing. I landed him in normal fashion. Continued to fish for another hour and a half, but no more shad. Maybe the previous high water spread-out the leaders of the run, as the "edge" of the current becomes vague at that time and visibility was surely poor. A pleasant surprise, though.

Fished Bulls Island, waded out at the point this morning. Between three of us, landed 40+ shad. They came in like a freight train between 7:00-10:00. Chartreuse was the color of choice.

Couldn’t find any other contact spot. Can one join the Association on Wednesday night at SeWyCo?

Skunkfest south of Lambertville by boat. Fished from 8-12. Not a bump. Spots that usually produced did not. Had a very tough time keeping the lines clean.

Just a quick reminder, those fisherman ans fisherwomen new to shad fishing, I'll be conducting a seminar on Shad Fishing the Delaware River on Wed night 4-19-17 at our Annual Shad Night at the Se-Wy-Co Fire Hall on Rt 378 in Bethlehem PA at the monthly DRSFA mtg at 7pm. Raffles, vendors, guided fishing trips raffled off for shad, stripers, and salmon too. Door Prizes and refreshments also!!!!. Seats are limited so get there early. No admission fee. Come out out and get your shad fishing supplies and learn more about consistently landing shad on the Big D. Hope to see you there!!! Kevin, 33 year member and volunteer Delaware River Shad Fisherman"s Association

Headed out tomorrow to Riegelsville Pa. First time on the Delaware for shad. Wading upstream is the plan, however all plans are open to change. Hope to see some other people out there too.

We fished along side Eric from the bi-state tourney and another boat this evening at the Lehigh confluence for about 3 hours we landed 50 shad out of around 75. Eric caught 80 and the other boat wAs catching steady all night as well. Plenty of fat roe in the mix and the action was non stop for the entire 3 hours. Pumped for the tournament next week!!!!

Hit it for 3 1/2 hrs this morning. Good bite 24 for 29. 3 sets of doubles. Half dozen were roe. Bonus rainbow trout. Hot color was white/red. Water 50.64. Less debris coming down everyday. Less surface activity this morning but there still was some.

Iron shad, I was watching you guys trying to anchor last night. Not sure what kind of anchor you were using but you need to allow for more line to scope out in front of the boat before you try to catch. I see to many guys drop there anchor and let out 12 feet of line and try to catch. In your boat you should allow at least 50 feet of line out in front of your boat before you expect to anchor. I'd have my life jackets on too while you're moving around.

Fished confluence of the Lehigh and deleware this afternoon. Water was high and fast so we had a hard time anchoring for a bit .We only managed 2 roe shad but our buddy Joe got to catch his first shad so the evening was a success. I am going to post his pic!! Way to go Joe!!!!!

Some shad caught just south of Easton today. River temp 47.5

FISHED EASTON SUNDAY, NOT A FISH..SOME DEBRIS....SEAN AND DAVE WERE OUT TOO..SEAN HAD 1 SHAD

https://www.facebook.com/pg/Delaware.Riverkeeper.Network/videos/?ref=page_internal I went to the DRBC dissolved oxygen meeting. I am the one speaking as 54:30. I hope someone convinced them to abandon their analysis paralysis approach to clean oxygen rich water in the Delaware!

Just waiters, but a couple of minutes from the creek it dumps into the Christiana river and I do really go with the stripers there most of the year. If you have a boat you could do some really good striper fishing. I had a 20 ft boat and boat does mean bust out another thousand. I don't have a boat right now. Here is a striper I got the last day of February . I was fishing the Christiana river off a bridge just a couple minutes from my home.

Charlie, Let me talk with my fishing buddy, we will more than likely try to get down there, I'll bring my spay rod and maybe do battle with a stripper, I have work this morning at 10:30. I will E-mail you sometime today or tomorrow.Do we need a boat or just waders.

Hi highly. I lived in frackville for 26 years . I moved to Elsmere Delaware 12 years ago. I never fished the Delaware river for shad yet. I have 3 different creeks within 5 minutes of my home were I shad fish . I get American and hickory shad weighing up to 4 pounds. I use a ultra light rod with 2 to 4 pound test and small shad darts and spoons and it's the greatest. I have work at 8am but I will be heading out about 5 am for my first day out this year. I haven't heard or been able to find out if there up in Christiana river or white clay creek yet but I have a good feeling they are. The creek is loaded with them beyond belief the creek isn't huge it's on the smaller side but the shad come up in in schools of a hundred or more. My favorite hole is about 30 ft wide and about 70 to 100 ft long and sometimes there is that many shad that's all you can see is the shad and can only see the bottom of the creek right along the shore. Barley anyone goes shad fishing there usually don't see anyone once in a while you might see another guy or two shad fishing there. The strippers follow the shad up in the creek and at night time you can watch 30 inch strippers and bigger eating shad right in front of you. It's also as some to use a medium action pole with 10 pound test and try to play one of those strippers and land it. You really have to set your drag light and have patience cause the fight can last 20 minutes or more. If you love shad fishing it's a spot you must try. If you would be interested just let me know . It's right out side of Wilmington and close to Delaware park race track . I would love to go out shad fishing with another serious die hard who loves shad fishing and appreciates and is grateful we have theses wonder fish come in or creeks and rivers to spawn in the spring time and go all the way back out to the Atlantic ocean. It's the most amazing and wonder thing that happens every spring . When they go back out to the ocean I start counting down the days and thinking about next year's season. Good lunch if you would like to come and try shad fishing here email me at charlesjk3179@gmail.com

HOW HIGH'S THE WATER MOMMA!!!!!!!LOL

Duff, an 8+ lb qill is up in braggin' territory. You should have gotten a picture!

Busy with the boat today but took a ride about 4:30 to a spot I've never fished . Loads of big fish darting on the surface but not biting. Ended up snagging 3 big roe in a couple hours.