Fishing Log

Day 3 of Bi-State report. Bit of a struggle all my best anchor spots. 15 of 20 in morning. Then did a bold move which I rarely do. Went to the wider deep water and trolled. Started picking at fish here and there but at least we were catching again. The fish seemed to stop moving today. Then we ran into a mother lode of fish. Trolling 4 rods with darts - bam all 4 rods at once. Kept working that area and catching good for a few hours. It slowed a bit and history told me at 4pm better get back to anchor spots. We did - got 7 fairly quick and then an hour and half of nothing. Ran buck up to troll spot and as soon as first dart hit the water was hooked up and had a few need doubles and singles and called it at 7pm. Overall 53 for the day. Nothing broke 4#. 31 on the troll 22 in the anchor. We probably lost 20 or more trolling. Lines very far back - as we are not using downriggers or divers. Makes sense. Twice in the troll our only rod with a double dart rig landed two at once. Getting tired of the boat would rather be wading. Maybe will finish the tournament by wading tomorrow afternoon.

Fished from 3-5pm, cloudy, cold and breezy. hooked 1, landed 1, on flutter spoon, action was slow, but happy I got out.

I know what ur saying about the boats.us pwt shore fisherman have limited places to fish as compared to boat.had a good shore day Thursday caught maybe 25 all day but there was a boat guy below me that probably caught well over 100.they had 2 rods out each fisherman and had singles and doubles costantly.thursday was slower and I caught fish today but had to move south 2 or 3 times til I got on them.good luck to all.hopefully a pwt shore fisher will get it again.

Seems like there should be two categories for contest. Boat (3 rods) and wade (1 rod). On the other hand the 1 rod won last year. Go figure.

Just reading replies here shows the old saying 10% of the fisherman catch 90% of the fish still holds true. If only catching 1 fish an hour you need to move . Unless your spot is a great travel corridor. And you’re waiting on the next pod moving through . These fish are moving hard up the river . Still a good spread of fish from Way south to way north . Yesterday spoon color choice was way more important than on the crazy days where they hit anything shiny . .

I believe Shad Harris caught that many. Using 3 poles per person, it equates to 1.7 per hour. Add in numerous doubles and triples, with the other poles still fishing while catching fish, and his dedication and expertise, very reasonable.

Fished Milford today. Very slow but I managed 3 nice roe. Talked to another gentleman. Told me he got 6 but bounced all around. Now. With all due respect, would you cut the crap with these numbers. Too many of us out there living reality.

Put into perspective the 117 shad catch is certainly far from impossible. Two angler = about 59 each. Two rods each = about 30 per rod. Over a 12 hour period = 2 & 1/2 shad per hour per rod.

Yes Shadharris, You are NOT BSing. I saw you boat at least 70 before I left.

The number - believe it or not for shad landed as per below post was “117” out of at least 137 hookups.

Fished Zane Grey from shore tonight 4 - 6:30 hooked 8 landed 3 water temp. was 53 deg.

Fished from 3-7 pm, hooked 7 landed 3, all on flutter spoons, my first shad of 2024 today.

John Shad I was in Easton tonight from 5:30-7:30pm by the falls and only hooked up once. Where were you at? I saw a few guys in the ladder side but not sure how they did.

Beat them up good in Easton today . Had over 80 in 6 hours on the water

Wading went 22 of 24 4-7pm. More roe than bucks. Some at or over 4lbs. 1/16 ounce pink / white dart was the best and a few on 1/8” leading dart. Only one on spoon

Fished Zane Grey 4:30 - 6:30 tonight hooked one and lost it had one other hit wind was bad, water temp. was 51.5 deg.

Had another good day Shad Harris email me ROBW19@AOL.COM

I got in 45 minutes on my way home. Fished the train bridge in Trenton for the 1st time this year. They have it royally effed up but it's almost fishable if one is agile and / or foolish. I hooked up my first cast, a hickory, I think, which let go after a quick fight. Then it was cast and retrieve practice until I left. I saw some evidence of others fishing there, so I'm not the only crazy one.

Still on the books? ** American Shad is catch and release in the Schuylkill River from I-95 upstream including all tributaries and three (3) American Shad in all other Delaware River tributaries, including those above tide.

Started 3pm on anchor. Decided to boat it today and not wade. Freaking cold ! Started in 51.3 degree water 49 degree air temp and dropping. Ended 50.8 degree water and 46 air temp. Low expectations. Quick 12 bucks landed first hour and it shut off. Decided to stay in that area a few slight adjustments. Quit 6:30 with 21 shad. A few other hits but most that hit were landed. It was starting to pick up as we left just wanted to hit 20 as a nice even number but I had to twitch the last rod in to make 21. So 12 in one hour. 9 in 2.5. Would have stayed but the chill got to me. Warmer days coming!

That road is closed as of right now. May try to open one lane to accomadate traffic from the Water Gap to Portland in the near future. They might try to open up one lane for thru traffic soon. Road was closed because of a rock slide.

Can anyone tell me if Rt. 611 at the water Gap to Portland is open ?

Fished sat nite and for 2 hours early this am on the jersey side of Washington's crossing. Crushed them in the evening on darts and spoons from shore from 5 to 7.mix of bucks and roe.started slow this am then from 630 to 730 started catching them good on spoons until some idiot in a kyack started paddling in the current right where the slot was.he was joined by 2 more .these idiots have the whole river but decide to sit there and paddle upstream in the current right in the hole.oh well that's why I usually don't fish the weekends. River is still high but clear .

Fished Milford all morning. Slow. Caught only a few. Didn't see anyone else catch anything from boat or shore.