Fishing Update

Tim, our shop employee, took his Dad out fishing Monday and Tuesday near his hometown of Williamsport, PA. This is Tim's report -

"I took Dad out fishing Monday at Little Pine State Park for trout. We had a pretty good day and brought some trout home for the grill. The weather was beautiful. A little chilly in the morning but it warmed up nice. Tuesday we went to Bald Eagle State Park looking for crappie and we found 'em!. We brought home several nice crappie including a 9, 10, 11 and 12 inch white crappie. That's the best trip we had in over 15 years at Bald Eagle for crappie. Most of the time they average 6 to 9 inches long but we found some big ones on Tuesday. We caught them on a mixture of soft plastic twister tails in white, white pearl, chartreuse and orange head/chartreuse tail. We also caught some on small hand tied feather jigs tipped with a Berkley Power Wiggler. TAKE YOUR DAD OUT FISHING!"

The pictures show Tim's Dad holding up a nice 10 inch white crappie. The other pictures are Tim holding up his 12 inch white crappie and a smaller black crappie.

Back to some local info - the river continues to be low and clear. Spinnerbaits and hard jerkbaits are catching most of the smallmouth. Anglers are also reporting finding small schools (8 to 10) of walleye in slack water areas. The walleyes have been caught on hard jerkbaits. Don't rule out hair jigs or tubes either but the fish are in more of a chasing mood so a moving/reaction bait is better.

We're starting to hear of some striper action on Pinchot finally. A couple of local anglers report seeing large explosions near the dam and a few nice hybrid stripers are being caught on big jerkbaits like a Lucky Craft Pointer 128 or 100. Laser Rainbow, Chartreuse Shad and Pearl Ayu being the better colors.