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Right outside the bay. there is a rocky shoreline east of the east street launch. aka the stacks jerkbaits.

caught a nice sheepshead on a bungeehawg monday on the allegheny pool 4

Spitn image is a good choice too.

Early spring Id watch your graph in the 25 to 35 fow. then drop your shiny friends. you can always check in shallower as the day goes on.

LOL cold and rainy....for a long time. but thats what the rain gear is for. thank god for the BPS 100mph Gear worth every penny.

It really flares up my tendonitis.

I thought it was another wiper,but he was hugging the bottom pretty good.

This week we ended up at Moraine State Park fishing Lake Arthur. Took a while to figure them out,but finally managed a few dinks on cranks. I did land this cat on a silver buddy.

Great start Dwight!! I cant wait to put my shiney friends into action. The fall bite on Erie is my favorite time, I can just hope we get a few good wind days cause its pretty much if you can get on the water, the smallies are waiting and very willing. Last fall the last trip we made was November 30th and It was cold, raining and very windy. We got out there and It was borderline unfishable. I caught like 25 in less than a hour fishing time. After that we came to our senses and made the run into east street. If you want to simulate the ride on lake Erie in the spring or fall, sit in you boat, in your driveway, and have someone throw buckets if ice water in your face. ( that of course dosent simulate the bend in the rod those brown fish give ya) but it will save you some gas money. see ya on the lake........

We saw some carp hanging around the shallows as we were trolling and casting. When my line starting taking off like I hooked a tarpon, I figured I had a carp. When I first got a glance at it, I thought that it didnt look like a carp. the water was stained and alI we could see was the black back of the fish. My partner says, "that a huge striper not a carp". When we got it in the net, we both were laughing hard at how huge it was. We knew they were in the lake and caught them here and there, but they were like two to three pounds.

12.5 pounds. thanks for the replies.

This bad boy ate my crawfish crank.

tubes are always a good choice. here are a few others to try. 1/8th ounce cavatron buzzbaits with trailer hook installed white skirt or white and chart. white 3.5 inch flukes texas rigged or scrounger head smaller spooks or a spitin image topwater poppers small jigs like a bitsy bug with a craw or fluke trailer bomber craw cranks or white or shad colored drop shot robo worm or those berkley minnows these are proven baits in my book. good luck and let us know how you do. e

Thanks for all the comments, My partner landed a muskie bigger than that the day before, on a small crank. He also had two more on that came unbuttoned. Now if we were trying to target them we probaly would of got skunked. We caught a mixed bag of smallies and largies but the cold and wind made it tough going. The lake was loaded with all types of weeds,pads and docks galore. Just somthing different to fish untill its Heavy Metal time on Erie.

My first time at this lake. We were pretty limited to fishing places out of the wind. We did run down to the south end of the lake with the south wind and rain, needless to say the ride back was like being pressure washed. I will be back.

Fished this past weekend thru a pretty bad cold front. Got this guy on Sunday. I also came across this guy by accident.

James Knox | Tribune-Review Scott Vensel casts his line under the shadow of the Birmingham Bridge while fishing from a pier in South Side Riverfront Park on Thursday, July 19, 2012. Rivers, fish back in the spotlight By Bob Frye Published: Sunday, July 22, 2012, 3:43 p.m. Updated: Sunday, July 22, 2012 This hosting fishing tournaments thing is getting to be commonplace for Pittsburgh. In 2005, the city — with rivers once so polluted they were a safety hazard — brought the Bassmaster Classic to town, showing people how clean and productive its waters had become. In 2009, the equally large and prestigious FLW Forrest Wood Cup came here. Now, there’s something new. On Sept. 27-29, the city will host the Marcellus Shale Coalition 3 Rivers Challenge, a made-for-television bass and walleye tournament featuring 14 top pros from FLW Outdoors’ tours. The three-day event will start with a watershed festival, evolve into a pro-am tournament featuring pros and celebrities, then conclude with a full-on professional competition. The tournament will be filmed and broadcast nationally on NBC Sports Network on Oct. 28. Pittsburgh is the perfect venue for such an event, given its sports traditions, its large base of outdoorsmen and especially its rivers, said Robert Petrilli, senior vice president of the Shale Coalition. “Our rivers are our treasures. The three rivers are what identify us and make us who we are,” Petrilli said. “So we’re really trying to create a special event.” “It’s a tremendous opportunity to showcase our rivers and the area itself on national television,” added Michael Dongilli, senior vice president of ISM/USA, the group that puts on the Three Rivers Regatta and is managing this event, too. “I think it’s going to be a tremendous event. When you figure in the number of boat registrations that come out of this area and the number of fishing licenses sold locally, there could be a phenomenal turnout among fans.” Visitors to the event may see some big fish brought in, too, said Denny Tubbs, outreach coordinator in the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission’s southwest region office. That didn’t happen in 2005; Kevin Van Dam won the Bassmaster Classic with the lowest total weight ever. Things went a little better in 2009, when Greg Hackney won the Forrest Wood Cup with not much more weight. But there should be smallmouth bass up to 4 pounds from the 2005 spawn, the largest ever recorded on the rivers, and walleyes up to 9 pounds or more, Tubbs said. And no matter what, fans will have plenty to do, he added. The tournament will feature a mini outdoors show, a family fishing event in which free fishing rods will be given to the first 300 children. This all will happen during the Pirates’ final — and potentially important — homestand of the season. “It’s going to be interesting, and all of it is free to fans, so people can show up to watch,” Tubbs said. “The fishing’s going to be over before the Pirates-Reds game each night, too, so people can come down, watch the weigh-ins and then go to a baseball game.” Exactly which pros — seven from FLW’s bass circuit and seven from its walleye tour — will fish the event won’t be finalized until this week at the earliest. But expect some big names, said Chad ***, communications director for FLW Outdoors. “We do a lot of tournament events in a year, 191 in fact, so it’s pretty hard to find time in the calendar to do a lot of these events. But whenever we get a chance to give back to a community or a charity, we’re glad to do it,” *** said. There is a charitable arm to this event. The Shale Coalition is going to be awarding grants to a number of yet-to-be-named river-based conservation groups, Petrilli said. “It’s an opportunity to bring pro fishing back into the area in a big way and benefit some conservation groups and make it all worthwhile,” Dongilli said. “It’s pretty exciting.” Bob Frye is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at bfrye@tribweb.com or 724-838-5148. Details The full Marcellus Shale Coalition 3 Rivers Challenge schedule is still being finalized. It’s to be ready, and a full marketing effort is to begin, no later than about six weeks before the tournament itself, officials said. In the meantime, you can get a glimpse of what’s going on by visiting www.msc3riverschallenge.com. When the time comes, pay attention to how the pros — and the walleye anglers in particular — do in Pittsburgh. If they catch lots of large fish and leave impressed with the city, local organizers have dreams of hosting FLW’s national walleye championship here sometime in the future, said Fish and Boat Commission spokesman Denny Tubbs. About Bob Frye Tribune-Review Outdoors writer Bob Frye can be reached via e-mail or at 724-838-5148.

I read that a unweighted small tube nose hooked works. I cant confirm, but I got one ready for the next time theres a hatch.

You should be fine. The fish will be there. Dont forget your flare gun

We couldn't make anything happen on the main lake today, so we went in to the bay. Boated 11 Green and 3 Brown between both of us. tubes and jerks and spinnerbaits for green shiney friends for brown Browns were in the two to three range. a couple of greens were close to three. I landed like a 10 pound drum that I thought was a record smallie when I first saw it. it was cold out there today. 10 4 over and out

Its fixin to get out of control here for the next couple months. the bay can down right spoil you when "it's on" The main lake is where Ive caught my six an up fish, thats not to say that they arent in the bay cause the are. look for lots of bait near the bottom then drop down and try to stay on the bait. or you can just drift HEAVY tubes.....sooner or later you will hook up.

Im headed up in the am. If the main lake dosent pan out, Im sure we will be headed for the bay.

Those are some river hogs, There not that willing yet dahn here in daburg.

looks like he got about four pounds of it in the photo.

Its worth the extra drive for us comming from the Pittsburgh. The bay affords the use of many techniques as well the opportunity to catch both largies and smallies.