Susquehanna River - Monday Aug 28

My wife and I did a short float trip Monday to beat the rain, which never came. We floated above Harrisburg in my ODC 1624 on a trip that is 2 1/2 miles long and only took us 3 1/2 hours. The middle of the river over to the West shore along Route 15 was pure mud. The middle to the East shore was much clearer with a nice green tint so we stayed in the middle for most of the trip.

I only landed 9 smallies, all on a 1/4 oz Gray Shad spinnerbait. Biggest were a trio of 16 inchers caught within 200 yards of each other. The rest of the smallies ranged from 10 to 15 inches. I tried tubes, crankbaits and soft jerkbaits but there was too much snot grass floating so I stuck with the spinnerbait. Even with the spinnerbait I was getting tons of snot grass on every cast. I did have one good sized musky totally rip the spinnerbait off my line next to the boat towards the end of the float.

The fish I caught were all in push water, the water just upstream from a ledge. Nothing below ledges or around grass beds.

The river forecast calls for a level of 6.5 feet later in the week which is needed badly to flush this snot grass off the rocks.


Tim