Hello Folks! 2018 has been a good year so far. The winter fishing for yellow perch was consistent during the later part of the winter. Health conditions have kept me off the water many days. My fish partner Ange Harclerode took our friends Dan Dudzinski and Josh Simon yellow perch fishing in the Sassafras and…
Category: Flats
THE YACK REPORT… SUSQUEHANNA FLATS STILL PRODUCING SOME NICE FISH.
The Susquehanna River is a fickle mistress…always changing her complexion and attitude. Releases from Conowingo Dam and moving tides put this fishery in a constant state of change. Learning to adapt to the changes will add to your success rates on the flats. For example, this week while fishing at slack tide we had no…
THE YACK REPORT… SUSQUEHANNA FLATS UPDATE
This season the Susquehanna Flats catch and release fishing has been hard to figure out. The River has been in and out of flood stage most of the month. Cold, dirty water makes for poor catching. As Conowingo Dam came out of spill conditions and the water clarity improved, so did the catching. I had…
THE YACK REPORT… SUSQUEHANNA FLATS ROCKFISH
This week the Good fishing in the upper bay continued with Striped Bass fishing taking the forefront but White Perch and Hickory Shad also made a showing this week. Herring continue to fill up the creeks and the White Perch are right behind them. Usually within a week or so after the Herring arrive the…
THE YACK REPORT… GOOD FISHING CONTINUES…
I only got out twice last week and the fishing was good enough to make me wish I had gone more often. Thursday night(10-20-2016) the Chester river produced several nice Rockfish for Ange Harclerode, Dan Kilroy and myself. We caught fish many different ways including “Top-water spook type lures”, paddle-tail swim baits, X-Raps, metal jigging…
Open Season: The Fish Are Here!
Well, today is June 1st that means the entire Chesapeake Bay and it’s tributaries are open the Striped Bass fishing… including the Susquehanna River. Timothy Smith and I have been waiting on this day for several months. At 6 am we launched his “ROCK-PROOF” jet boat at Port Deposit and headed up river. Our first…
Open Season On The Flats!
Good morning from the Susky Flats…May 22, 2016 I was thinking that I wanted to get back out on the fish before they moved… When John Rogers called last night and asked me to fish, I could not say no. We launched at 6:30 am and fished until 10… caught about a dozen each. The…
Fish Don’t Care If It’s Raining!
I fished the flats this afternoon with my friend Sonny and his Uncle Al. Timothy Smith gave us some intel and we launched at 2pm fished to about 7 pm, catching well over a hundred Rockfish of all sizes up to 30″. We had 4 fish over 26″ with the largest fish of the day…
April Fishing in the Upper Bay
April 2016 had some excellent fishing! The cold rainy weather has kept the fish here longer than usual. Many of our migratory fish like Shad and Stripers came to the upper bay area early and stayed late thanks to the cooler weather. Our best fishing occurs when the waters are cooler. In fact the warmer…
The Yack Report: Rainy Weather Fishing
Yesterday was about the most perfect day!
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