Hi Gang,
The river was at 3.7 with 12,000CF of flow and 62 degrees at the beginning of the week and at the end of the week we had 3.7 with 10,900CF of flow and 62 degrees. The BP was 29.90 and Rising.
Trip #1 – Guide Trip – This was a half day PM trip on Monday and we boated 17 Flatheads and the largest was 22#. We had 4 over 20# and we caught them on live bait. We had 3.7 – Steady – Clear – 11,600CF and 66 degrees. It was clear and we had a BP of 30.50 and Rising.
Trip #2 – Guide Scouting Trip – This was on Wednesday and we fished from 2:00 – 7:00 PM and we boated 25+ bass and the largest was 19”. We caught them on soft plastics, spinnerbaits and stickbaits. We had 3.7 - Clear – 11,000CF and 61 degrees. It was cloudy and 70 degree air temperature.
Trip #3 – Guide Fun Trip – This was on Friday and we fished from 1:30 to 7:30 and we boated 25 Flatheads. The largest was 28.11# and we had 5 over 20#. We caught them all on live bait. We had 3.7 – 12,000 CF – Clear – 62 degrees. It was cloudy and we had a BP of 30.00 and steady.
Trip #4 – Guide Trip – This was a full day trip on Saturday and we boated 19 Bass and 1 Fallfish. The longest bass was 19” but the heaviest was 18.75” and weighed 3.13#. We caught them on YUM Dingers, Craw Pappi’s and Grubs and we caught some on stickbaits. We had 3.7 – 10,900 CF – Clear – 62 degrees. It was cloudy and extremely windy NW and we had a BP of 29.90 and rising.
The bass fishing has started to pick up and should continue to get better until we switch to Walleye. We are catching an occasional Walleye on almost every smallmouth trip.
Please send your friends and family to our web site. www.koinoniafishingguides.com
Kermit Henning had a little segment on Channel 27 News and Koinonia
was featured on this segment. You can check it out at the Channel 27 web site if you missed it.
HAVE A GREAT WEEK AND LUV THE TUG………REB
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Walleyes are Coming (The Daily Item)
From the Daily Item
http://www.dailyitem.com/0224_outdoor/local_story_263091834.html
September 20, 2009
By Ken Maurer
For The Daily Item
A lot of anglers are starting to think about fall walleye fishing. They are already starting to get a few walleye here and there. Over the next couple of weeks, the walleye bite will gradually intensify on the mighty Susquehanna.
Right now most of the action is at dusk and after dark. As the water cools, the walleyes seem to get hungrier. What really kicks off the fall walleye bite is the first rise in water level. If we don’t get a good rain, this will occur around the second week of October when the Adam T. Bower Memorial Dam is gradually deflated. For whatever reason, a rise in water level this time of year kicks the walleyes in the butt and they start scooting up to the power dam and the Adam Bower dam.
Last fall, the walleye fishing was fairly typical. They started catching them in late September and it went on throughout the winter. The better areas change from time to time. Sometimes it’s better below the Adam Bower Dam and sometimes it’s better below the power dam in the Shady Nook area. November was really good and I remember having some good nights in the bitter cold of January.
One thing that may well change the walleye landscape this winter is if the power plant decides to produce power or not. No power, no warm-water discharge. Word is that a decision may be made in December about production. That area should still be a good spot for walleye, even if there is no warm water. The walleye will likely be more spread out if there is little warm water.
How will a mid-winter fire-up affect things? We might see. October and November should be about the same as other years.
Walleye fishing on the river does not have to be a complicated thing. For live bait users, a jighead and a worm is a standby, as is a jig and minnow or a minnow with some splitshot up the line a little ways. If they get real picky, a nose-hooked nightcrawler rigged with a light slip sinker will usually take them.
On the fake bait side, a couple of one-eighth and one-quarter ounce jigheads and a handful of twisters is usually all you need. Smoke, motor oil, and chartreuse are the main colors. Variations in color and shape are endless, sometimes they like it plain, sometimes a red or silver glitter trips their trigger. After dark a lot of guys throw Rapalas or other floating stickbaits. You don’t need to drag the bottom after dark, walleye will readily come up and pound shallow running plugs. They are sneaky at times and sometimes they short-strike. Try to hesitate or drop the rod tip toward them before you set the hook. Some lures don’t have the greatest hooks. Try replacing your favorite plug’s hooks with some premium trebles such as the Mustad triple grips.
My favorite month is getting closer. Walleyes, archery hunting and trophy smallmouth. The honey-do list sometimes gets the short end of the stick and in October, there’s barely a stub left. Thank heavens my wife likes to fish.
-- Ken Maurer, Herndon, is a licensed fishing guide and a regular contributor to the Outdoors section. E-mail comments to kenrose@tds.net
http://www.dailyitem.com/0224_outdoor/local_story_263091834.html
September 20, 2009
By Ken Maurer
For The Daily Item
A lot of anglers are starting to think about fall walleye fishing. They are already starting to get a few walleye here and there. Over the next couple of weeks, the walleye bite will gradually intensify on the mighty Susquehanna.
Right now most of the action is at dusk and after dark. As the water cools, the walleyes seem to get hungrier. What really kicks off the fall walleye bite is the first rise in water level. If we don’t get a good rain, this will occur around the second week of October when the Adam T. Bower Memorial Dam is gradually deflated. For whatever reason, a rise in water level this time of year kicks the walleyes in the butt and they start scooting up to the power dam and the Adam Bower dam.
Last fall, the walleye fishing was fairly typical. They started catching them in late September and it went on throughout the winter. The better areas change from time to time. Sometimes it’s better below the Adam Bower Dam and sometimes it’s better below the power dam in the Shady Nook area. November was really good and I remember having some good nights in the bitter cold of January.
One thing that may well change the walleye landscape this winter is if the power plant decides to produce power or not. No power, no warm-water discharge. Word is that a decision may be made in December about production. That area should still be a good spot for walleye, even if there is no warm water. The walleye will likely be more spread out if there is little warm water.
How will a mid-winter fire-up affect things? We might see. October and November should be about the same as other years.
Walleye fishing on the river does not have to be a complicated thing. For live bait users, a jighead and a worm is a standby, as is a jig and minnow or a minnow with some splitshot up the line a little ways. If they get real picky, a nose-hooked nightcrawler rigged with a light slip sinker will usually take them.
On the fake bait side, a couple of one-eighth and one-quarter ounce jigheads and a handful of twisters is usually all you need. Smoke, motor oil, and chartreuse are the main colors. Variations in color and shape are endless, sometimes they like it plain, sometimes a red or silver glitter trips their trigger. After dark a lot of guys throw Rapalas or other floating stickbaits. You don’t need to drag the bottom after dark, walleye will readily come up and pound shallow running plugs. They are sneaky at times and sometimes they short-strike. Try to hesitate or drop the rod tip toward them before you set the hook. Some lures don’t have the greatest hooks. Try replacing your favorite plug’s hooks with some premium trebles such as the Mustad triple grips.
My favorite month is getting closer. Walleyes, archery hunting and trophy smallmouth. The honey-do list sometimes gets the short end of the stick and in October, there’s barely a stub left. Thank heavens my wife likes to fish.
-- Ken Maurer, Herndon, is a licensed fishing guide and a regular contributor to the Outdoors section. E-mail comments to kenrose@tds.net
Friday, October 9, 2009
Sunbury Walleye
Yesterday Jon Adams and I ventured to Sunbury to find some walleye around the Fabridam. Our search was successful. We each caught a number of walleye, and Jon got on some nice smallies too. My largest walleye was about 20 inches. There have been a lot of large walleye caught there recently during the night hours.
Video is forthcoming...
Monday, October 5, 2009
Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission wants sister agency to take close look at 'impaired' Susquehanna River
By MARCUS SCHNECK, The Patriot-News
October 05, 2009, 6:15PM
A senior staffer with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission Monday called on the state Department of Environmental Protection to declare the Susquehanna River “impaired” and launch an investigation into the sources of that impairment.
“We put enough of the pieces of the puzzle together to say that the river is impaired,” said John Arway, chief of the commission’s Division of Environmental Services.
Arway’s comments followed a presentation at a meeting of Fish and Boat commissioners by Jeffrey Chaplin of U.S. Geological Survey findings on factors impacting the smallmouth bass population in the river.
The commission, USGS, DEP and others have been investigating the situation in the river since 2005, when reports of dead bass and deteriorating bass-fishing conditions began to surface.
Columnaris bacteria, which infects fish already under stress from other factors, noted on dead and dying, young bass, has been linked as at least a symptom of the deterioration of the river.
Chaplin said the USGS, using monitoring stations at several points along the river in 2008, determined that the microhabitats used by the young bass were more stressed by water quality conditions – lower dissolved oxygen concentrations in the water and higher water temperatures – than other, nearby parts of the river.
He noted that conditions have grown more stressful for the fish since the 1970s and that near-normal or lower summertime river flows appeared to exacerbate the problem.
In addition, according to the report, concentrations of phosphorus and nitrogen in the river water “were routinely within the range considered to be conducive to excessive algal growth,” which can further aggravate the stressful conditions.
In previous meetings, anglers have pointed to everything from agricultural run-off to sewage treatment plants to power plants with warmwater discharge into the river as the source of the problem.
However, Chaplin cautioned, “there is no smoking gun here,” based on the study to-date.
He said the USGS finished its 2009 monitoring just last week and is beginning its analysis of the data collected.
“It’s a combination of many factors,” Chaplin explained, including “emerging contaminants” like hormones and chemicals entering the river.
He also noted that the Delaware and Allegheny rivers, where the columnaris and die-off situation has not been noted in smallmouth bass, have less stressful environments for the fish, based on higher dissolved-oxygen concentrations and lower water temperatures in those other waters.
Arway pointed to DEP because it is the state’s point-agency for enforcement of clean water standards.
“We need to find out why we’re getting dissolved oxygen violations in these critical habits,” he said of the conditions in the Susquehanna, which is considered one of the premier smallmouth bass rivers in the country.
“There needs to be a nutrient-focused study on the major tributaries of the river,” explained Arway.
From PennLive.com:
http://blog.pennlive.com/wildaboutpa/2009/10/pennsylvania_fish_boat_commiss.html
October 05, 2009, 6:15PM
A senior staffer with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission Monday called on the state Department of Environmental Protection to declare the Susquehanna River “impaired” and launch an investigation into the sources of that impairment.
“We put enough of the pieces of the puzzle together to say that the river is impaired,” said John Arway, chief of the commission’s Division of Environmental Services.
Arway’s comments followed a presentation at a meeting of Fish and Boat commissioners by Jeffrey Chaplin of U.S. Geological Survey findings on factors impacting the smallmouth bass population in the river.
The commission, USGS, DEP and others have been investigating the situation in the river since 2005, when reports of dead bass and deteriorating bass-fishing conditions began to surface.
Columnaris bacteria, which infects fish already under stress from other factors, noted on dead and dying, young bass, has been linked as at least a symptom of the deterioration of the river.
Chaplin said the USGS, using monitoring stations at several points along the river in 2008, determined that the microhabitats used by the young bass were more stressed by water quality conditions – lower dissolved oxygen concentrations in the water and higher water temperatures – than other, nearby parts of the river.
He noted that conditions have grown more stressful for the fish since the 1970s and that near-normal or lower summertime river flows appeared to exacerbate the problem.
In addition, according to the report, concentrations of phosphorus and nitrogen in the river water “were routinely within the range considered to be conducive to excessive algal growth,” which can further aggravate the stressful conditions.
In previous meetings, anglers have pointed to everything from agricultural run-off to sewage treatment plants to power plants with warmwater discharge into the river as the source of the problem.
However, Chaplin cautioned, “there is no smoking gun here,” based on the study to-date.
He said the USGS finished its 2009 monitoring just last week and is beginning its analysis of the data collected.
“It’s a combination of many factors,” Chaplin explained, including “emerging contaminants” like hormones and chemicals entering the river.
He also noted that the Delaware and Allegheny rivers, where the columnaris and die-off situation has not been noted in smallmouth bass, have less stressful environments for the fish, based on higher dissolved-oxygen concentrations and lower water temperatures in those other waters.
Arway pointed to DEP because it is the state’s point-agency for enforcement of clean water standards.
“We need to find out why we’re getting dissolved oxygen violations in these critical habits,” he said of the conditions in the Susquehanna, which is considered one of the premier smallmouth bass rivers in the country.
“There needs to be a nutrient-focused study on the major tributaries of the river,” explained Arway.
From PennLive.com:
http://blog.pennlive.com/wildaboutpa/2009/10/pennsylvania_fish_boat_commiss.html
NEW Susquehanna Fishing Forum!
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This board is free and open to the public. All anglers from the Susquehanna River regions of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York are invited to participate. SFF is a great resource for meeting new friends, finding company to join you on the water, or just to brag about your recent outings!
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Sunday, October 4, 2009
How to Rig a Sit-Inside Kayak for Fishing
With the popularity of sit-inside kayaks around the Susquehanna River region, I thought I would post an oldie-but-goodie video I put out for Fishyaker.com a couple years ago.
If you have a kayak sitting around that you only use recreationally, consider the opportunities open to you if you use it as a fishing platform... No fuel, no trailer needed, easy to fix and rig, and inexpensive. You can also sell the spouse on it being a "healthy alternative." Don't forget that it can also get to places larger boats can't.
If you have a kayak sitting around that you only use recreationally, consider the opportunities open to you if you use it as a fishing platform... No fuel, no trailer needed, easy to fix and rig, and inexpensive. You can also sell the spouse on it being a "healthy alternative." Don't forget that it can also get to places larger boats can't.
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