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Been a terrific week on The Delaware, wading every day, fishing flats in Bucks County. Thought I'd include a few of my better fish from this week thus far. Smallies have been very active under mid day bluebird skies. Best numbers have been on soft paddletail swimbaits on a light weighted hook. During overcast periods or when the wind has made finesse less effective, walking baits have gotten big blow ups worked nearly as fast as I can retrieve on a 7:1 baitcaster. Short strikes or slaps mean I go into hyper-speed and burn, burn, burn - they come back for it ticked off. First cast of the day on Tuesday, I just about jumped outta my shoes when this channel cat whacked my swimbait. Fun fight on 6lb fluoro. Caught several more channels on swimbaits while casting for smallies. Striper have been blistering walking baits on breaklines beside flats all week. I like the Strike King Sexy Dawg, again - fast as I can burn it. Lots on large paddletails and four on a Lucky Craft Pointer 100sp, always on the pause. All fish released as always. Hope you guys are hammering them wherever you’re at!

Cass Can Catch: Cassandra and I fished a family member's lake in Flemington over the weekend and had a lot of fun. She's only been fishing for a short time now so a good numbers day was much needed. And a good numbers day we had. We fished from 2:00- 9:30 pm and she hooked 14 fish. All on a 3 3/4" Salty Shad by Case, in smoke/silver. Nose hooked, twitched erratically after the bait's fallen a bit, and paused. Most fish ate it on the pause with the exception of a few that chased it down and bit right at the banks toward evening. I had her on a very lightweight 6'6 spinning set up, 10 lb suffix braid/8lb fluoro leader. The Cats Came Back: Encountered another, and much smaller catfish this time on a black/blue tube, while fishing flats in Bucks County. A Rare Bronze Bass: Had a great Raritan night on Monday. Floated from about 6 - 9:30 and we had a blast catching mid sized smallies on soft jerkbaits (salty shad) and topwater (walking baits). The fish in the Raritan are downright mean. I've never met a smallmouth that didnt fight like crazy, but Raritan smallmouth are something else man... And I for one, have got a whole lot left to learn about that river. Some footage I've been chopping together recently. Some of it (a lot of it actually) shot on an ipad, some with better optics. Just a heads up, the audio came out a bit wonky in the first draft so I suggest dialing the volume down a bit and adjusting accordingly. Enjoy ***UPDATED*** I've since corrected the speaker-crushing nature of the audio, and finished the cut of the video. I've yet to do any color grading or retouch on any footage, most of which, was captured on an Ipad that I'd mount to a gorrila-pod. The iPad footage while - prettttty impressive (seriously, use it, it might impress you), is in fact less forgiving in editing software than the boat footage which was captured with a better camera system. The whole thing still has to be tightened up a bit I think, and will be color graded. I'll see what can be done with the ipad footage to enchance it and bring out shadow a little cleaner than it captured it.