Lehigh River Smallmouth Bass Fishing

The water continues to be low. Ship anglers had stated doing well catching bass while the lake was being lowered. Shore anglers stated catching some striped bass using live bait throughout the evenings off the Pine Run ship launch area. Pickerel were active near the Preachers Camp access area as well as some nice size perch being caught in the upper reaches of the Pohopoco Bay area. Boaters are reminded to use caution while boating at Beltzville Lake caused by the lower water levels. (fishhound.com)

Walnut Creek, Elk Creek, bent Creek, Upper Gravel Pit Erie County — light temperatures kept streams open as late as Feb. 10, however fishing pressure was light. The lower stretches of Walnut and Elk creeks were yielding steelhead, and one local angler did well in the lower reaches of bent, where he stated catching new steelhead on emerald shiners. Restricted success was stated at the Gravel Pit. Single-digit temperatures were causing the tribs to freeze as of Feb. 12.  . (outdoornews.com)

Mark says fishing on the lake now is the best he is seen it in years. Stripers and walleye are biting big time at the lake, and anglers are slamming them at night, limiting out when using live herring drifting, Rattlin’ Rogues, Bombers and Ripplin’ redfins. Anglers are are limiting out on Rock bass along the shore on red worms with a bobber. Big largemouth and smallmouth bass are hitting diving crankbaits. One woman caught a 14-pound Northern pike. Flyfishing is your best bet on the Lackawaxen River with all the hatches going off. Best patterns are black caddis, green apple caddis and Quill Gordons in the morning and toward night. (Click here to investigate)

Go on youtube a search Kayakbassfishing channel. Jeff Little is the name of the man who runs it, he’s an guru for river smallie fishing. He runs his own homemade bait company called Confidence baits. Confidencebaits. Net he’s a whole bunch of videos on winter, spring, summer, and fall river smallie patterns. I used to fish rivers frequently for smallies, but I recently hereditary a nice aluminum ship and I my GF happens to have a house on Candlewood lake in CT, which is #34 in Bassmaster top 100 lakes so its hard to defeat. But I do think river smallies fight better then lake smallies. (bassresource.com)

At Chapman Park in Doylestown. The pond is reserved to fishing for kids under 16. It’s stocked with trout in the spring, however it has a great population of Bluegills and some Brown Bullhead catfish that may be caught in the summer and fall. There are some smaller Largemouth Bass in the pond also. The dam has a worm farm built on place where anglers can dig for their own free bait. Worms on a bobber will catch the Bluegills. Rig the rods for bottom fishing so the kids can get into the catfish and bass. The concrete path around the pond gives easy access. (onthewater.com)

For the second year Rivers is happy to be able to offer our Lehigh Gorge Float Trips. 2007 was the 1st year when commercial guiding permits were granted for guides to float fish this part of the river. Years of boating, fishing, and logistics gathering trips in the Gorge have come to fruition for us as we have been given the 1st ever commercial fishing permit for this part of the river. This part combines the excitement of whitewater boating with a high quality fishing experience where you will be able to fish regions that get little or no pressure because of their remote nature. Remote!?!?! There must be lots of parking lots and parallel roads along the river right? Not really. (riversflyfishing.com)

The 17, 088-acre Pymatuning Reservoir is a warm-water fishery. Common species are walleye, muskellunge, carp, crappie, perch, bluegill and largemouth and smallmouth bass. Ice fishing throughout the winter months is well-liked. When fishing by ship, fishing licenses issued by either Ohio or Pennsylvania are honored anywhere on the lake. When fishing from the shore, only Ohio licensed fishermen can fish from the Ohio shore and Pennsylvania licensed fishermen from the Pennsylvania shore. There’s ADA available fishing access in the Jamestown Day Use Area and an ADA available fishing pier at the Espyville and Linesville marinas and the Shenango River. (dcnr.state.pa.us)

$10, 000 Grant given to LRSA – we’re happy to announce that in June 2008 our grant application to buy a new water quality probe that will enable streaming water quality data to the Internet was accepted. The new probe is already deployed in Jim Thorpe and our conservation team expects that water quality data will be available online sometime this summer. The new probe features the following water quality measurements: temperature, depth, dissolved oxygen DO, pH, oxidation reduction possible ORP, Nitrates and self cleaning turbidity. We’re happy to have bought the state-of-the-art DO probe that uses a luminescence rather than a galvanic technique, this will supply more dependable and correct DO measurements with less maintenance. (lrsa.org)

As noted above, goes on the Lehigh River below White Haven are controlled by the Francis E. Walter Dam. White water releases usually put the fishing off and these days are best evaded. If you do fish, go early before the wave of water and boaters arrives. If you study the USGS stream gauge data see above throughout a white water release you’ll be able to predicted when water levels will start to increase in the place you want to fish. (Click for more info)

Those who like to make the run for the tailwaters of Virginia, western North Carolina and east Tennessee, Randy Ratliff at East Tennessee on the Fly, Kingsport, Tenn. Says that the generating schedules of the dams are making for remaining float trips on the South Holston and Watauga rivers and really good wading on the Nolichucky and the Tuck. Black caddis hatch is gone; the blue winged olives are in full force and the sulphurs are starting. More downstream the Smallmouth and Striped Bass are active. (Additional reading)