Great end to a great weekend of fishing...

Strange weather. We got a string of days in the mid-80's. While many people think this is great (including Debbi), I think it stinks. This will warm the river up very fast, push the fish to the beds and bring a quick end to this fantastic spring fishing.

Oh well...quit your whining, right?

This morning, Debbi and I hit the water by about 7am. Air temps were already in the 60's and water temp started out around 59.

We headed upriver into the rocks to try to get some more big female smallies. We each managed (4) smallies. My biggest was 3-10, Debbi's was 4-0.

At about 11 am, we decided to make the long, 30 minute run to the largemouth/crappie areas. We struck out on crappie, but boy did we have fun with the Largemouths! We found a stretch of bank where the largemouth were piled up. My best guess was that the fish had a wad of baitfish pushed into this spot. We caught them, one after another...Debbi landed about 9-10 largemouths and lost at least 4 at the side of the boat. I landed 15 largemouths...including a 5-0 beauty!

Great weekend with (2) bass (1 smallie, 1 largemouth) over 5 lbs! We caught MANY over 4 lbs and didnt even bother weighing most of the 3's. For those that measure by length, we're talking about dozens of bass, 17-21 inches caught over the last fews days.

It just doesn't get any better than this on the Susquehanna River.