Fishing report (brinkmans)
Thursday 2, 2009
Well the new striper laws went into effect yesterday. You know can keep 2 fish between 20 and 26 inches. Now this is a Pennsylvania law so if you are fishing on the jersey side or taking a boat out on the jersey side you have to stick to the closed season. Myself I got out for a couple hours on Tuesday and had another great weather day but the fishing was a bit slow. We anchored in front of the Rancocas Creek and fished for about 4 hours. In that time I picked up 2 white perch both about a pound, 1 catfish about 4 pounds and also a small striper about 14 inches. That was it. All the fish were caught on bloodworms. Now we did have chunk herring and one whole herring out all day without a hit. The river is up to 47 degrees and has a bit of debris on top. Now after the rains they are calling for this week I don't know how the river will look by the weekend.
Now over the weekend the striper fishing did pick up. Up off Station Avenue they did catch a couple more keeper size fish. I know one customer fished all day and landed 4 fish with 2 being 29 inches. He said they also caught about 5 more keepers that day. The biggest was 33 inches. Off Linden Avenue I still have not heard of even a striper caught. They are catching a few catfish but so far that has been it. Off Rhawn Street it has been the same with a few catfish but no stripers. Down off the Arsenal they caught allot of catfish with the tournament and did have several stripers mixed in. Now down of National Park a customer picked up a nice 38 inch fish about 26 pounds. He also had several fish 20 to 25 inches. He said there was about 20 guys fishing and he seen over 30 fish caught during the day. And across the river at Fort Mifland guys picked up several keeper fish with a bunch of smaller ones. Same reports from behind the UPS building but here they said all the fish were throw backs. Paul called me from down river and he caught his first keep fish this week. He also had several smaller fish all caught on bloodworms. So it looks like all up and down the river the striper fishing is picking up and I think a couple more degrees the fish should really pick up.
Now the upper river has not changed much this week. They say the level is back down and the guys are back out fishing off the wing dam. Now that is prior to this rain we are getting today and on Friday. The guys fishing off the New Hope wing dam have been catching shad and walleyes in the fast water with some smaller smallmouth bass in the back waters. The shad have been hitting chartreuse, pink and orange spoons. Most guys are fishing them behind 1/4 ounce of weight. The walleyes have still been hitting minnows, jigs, bucktails, twister tails and Rapala's the best. The smallies have been hitting minnows and grubs. Now some better shad fishing is being done from boats in front of the Washington's Crossing bridge. They are also catching them at the Yardley wing dam and at the bridges at Trenton. All these places they have been picking up the fish on spoons. Now some good walleye fishing is being done up river out of Byran. Guys have been doing their best along the wall and up river in front of the bridge abutments. Here they have been throwing allot of chartreuse grubs, Rapala's in black and silver and gold and black, minnows and nightcrawlers. They are also doing allot of trolling with chartreuse crankbaits. Now Charlie was fishing the mouth of the Tohickon picking up a couple smallies this past weekend with leech imitations lures. He said a couple of the fish were 16 to 18 inches.
Trout are being stocked this week for all the local trout waters. The Pennypack and Wissahickon are getting fish today. I think the Pennypack is getting around 8,000 fish with the Wissahickon picking up 3,800. Core Creek and Levittown Lake are both being stocked with about 3,000 fish each. Now some of the best baits for trout are usually meal worms, wax worms, earthworms, nightcrawlers and power baits. Some of the best lures to use are Rooster Tails, Tsunami spinners, Panther Martins, Blue Fox spinners, C P Swings and Kastmasters.
Guys fishing south jersey have still been doing very good in the lakes and rivers. Still allot of guys have been down fishing Lake Lenape doing very good on pickerel, bass and perch. The bass have been hitting spinner baits, plastic worms, Rapala's and lizards. Pickerel have been hitting the Rapala's, spinners and grubs. The best for the perch have been live minnows, meal worms, smaller grubs and spinners. In the river the perch have moved out with just some pickerel hitting. But the herring are starting to show up along the wall which means they will be a week or so before hitting the upper Delaware. Down in Union a customer picked up a nice 22 inch largemouth bass that weight around 6 pounds. He picked that up on a 10 inch power worms. He also caught another 12 largemouth bass and 14 pickerel on other assorted lures. Some other guys were down fishing Union targeting crappies, perch and bluegills. They were up the upper end fishing around the weed beds and in the mouth of the feeder creek. They picked up over 100 fish between three fisherman. They found 2 inch twister tails working the best pitched along shoreline. Colors were white and chartreuse. Down along the Salem Canal they are still doing very good on white perch, stripers and carp. The stripers and perch have been hitting bloodworms with the carp biting corn and carp baits.
We have not been getting many reports back from the lakes up in this area. I think most of these guys have been fishing for stripers. But up in Rohm Haas the couple guys are still saying the fishing has been very slow. They are catching some smaller bass with plastic worms and rattle traps. Up in Noxamixion the few guys that have been fishing have been hitting the docks for crappies and bluegills. The have been doing very good around the marina with twister tails, small jigs, wax worms, minnows and trout magnets. John was up a week ago fishing the upper end catching a few smaller largemouth bass with spinner baits and suspending crankbaits. The guys are still doing good on crappies up at Fall's Township but again the numbers have dropped off from weeks ago. The fish have been hitting small minnows, wax worms and jigs. The bass are picking up hitting plastic worms along the shore line. Jim was up early in the week catching 7 largemouth bass up to 16 inches on purple and watermelon trick worms. Several guys are still doing very good on suckers in the Poquessing and lower Pennypack creek. But in the Pennypack they are also catching a few catfish and carp. The suckers and catfish have been hitting worms the best. Carp like usual are being caught on corn and carp baits. A few guys have been hitting the art museum looking for stripers saying the only thing they been catching is a few walleyes and hickory shad.
The only saltwater action I have heard this week was from the upper Delaware Bay for stripers. These guys are still fishing Fortasque and Reeds Beach. They have been fishing allot of bloodworms and clams picking up stripers 20 to 33 inches. Most of the fish have been throw back but most guys have been able to catch a keeper each trip down. Now several guys were heading out for sea bass but I did not talk to anyone that got back as of yet.
Well I know this is short but I want to get this posted before I get to busy to type it. Good luck to all the trout fisherman heading out and for the striper guys it is getting closer to the big fish heading up.
Bill
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FISHING REPORTS
4-1- Glad they changed the striper season. Today I was able to catch my first legal fish. I hooked up 5 fish total and had two fish 24 and 25 inches I was able to take home and clean. Nice the state took care of the fisherman that support them. Zack
3-30- Billy, fished up in warren lake yesteday and had a great day on bass. We were working the shallow side of the lake with shallow diving crankbaits. The best colors were crawfish and perch pattens. The fish were all on the small side but the action was great. We had three guys in the boat and we landed 19 fish and lost at least another 11. Not a bad day for this time of the year. Chuck
3-29- Wanted to let you know the bass are starting to pick up in the upper river. We were up in front of the slide just below the neshaminy creek yesterday. What a great day we had. We were out using bloodworms, herring, shrimp and nightcrawlers. Well the only thing that was working was the bloodworms. We picked up 11 stripers 4 catfish and 5 white perch. The stripers ranged from 2 to 7 pounds. The cats were 1 to 3 pounds. Perch were really big fish, not able to use as live bait. I was jigging for herring down here for close to 4 hours and never caught anything but grass. See you in a couple days. Fred
3-27- hey a big fish was taken the other night off station avenue. I was up there fishing for several hours when this fish was landed. They measured it at 38 inches adn weighted 23 pounds. The fish was caught on a bloodworm. Now myself I have caught 4 fish so far and all the fish have been under 26 inches. I can't wait till next month when we can keep a fish like that. But you kn ow what will happen all the big fish will show up. Saw my first white perch the other day down at the arsneal. I did not catch it but I did see it caught. I guess the bloodworms will be eaten up quicker when they get up here in numbers. Wayne
3-26-This report is coming back from Graveling Point. Twenty five guys were fishing early today most fishing with bloodworms, sandworms, clams and eels. From what I could count there was 17 stripers caught with 6 keepers. For me I got to watch all these fish caught. I did not have a hit in seven hours. Not sure what I was doing wrong but most of these guys were out casting me by fourty yards. They were all using 11 foot rods with big surf reels and breakaway rigs. I know I will be down next week for a new outfit. Also do you know what a breakaway rig is. Kenny Yes we do carry a few rigs by breakaway. Two different with floats and two without. We also have plenty of surf outfits. Bill
3-24- A little windy yesterday but we did get out off shore. It was a tough ride home but was worth the trip. I ended the day with my 25 sea bass, 2 cod and a couple ling. All the sea bass were 3 pounds. The fish were really hitting strip mackerel on top and bottom rigs. The biggest fish caught was a 23 pound cod and there were two sea bass over 6 pounds. All these fish were caught on silver jigs. Next time I'm taking some jigs. Stan
3-22- Well caught my first two stripers this morning. I was down off Princeton Ave and was fishing with bloodworms, clams and herring. Both stripers came on bloodworms. One fish was 23 inches and the other was just short of a keeper. There were three other fisherman there most of the day and all together we had 7 sripers, 3 catfish and 1 perch. That guy sent the perch right back out and did have a good run off but never did hook up the fish. All the bass were all undersized. Next week will be keeper week. Frank
3-21-Hi Bill I was in on weds 3/18 and picked up 2 dozen nightcrawters and I fished the Neshaminy falls area with no luck the water is still to cold maybe this good weather will warm it up soon,I heard a 5 lb smallie was caught on the upper river. SMITTY
3-21- Fortasque is really picking up for bass. We were down early to day and everyone was doing very good. Bloodworms is the bait of choice and most of the fish caught were 22 to 31 inches. Most everyone had at lease one keeper except us. We had all small fish. We are going to head down the bay tommorrow.
3-18- Stop in the shop on my way down sea isle city back bay for stripers and catch and release flounder someone forgot to let the fish know I wanted to catch them, no takers. Small schools of herring in the bay they tore through my bloods. Temps still to low 3 days of above 60 weather should jumpstart it. A bit windy but all in all great trip. Marked some decent fish on sonar so it's gone to start soon. Oh solid reports of herring beginning to stack up in Delaware bay. It's almost that time.!!!! Live clams, fresh squid, bloods & storm plastics. Drifted/ancored/drifted.
3-17- fished tacony with bloods incoming water nothing water temp on the flats where 56 but the channel it was 46 but still fish able i will try again tomorrow on out going water
3-12- Went out yesterday and caught allot of crappies. I was fishing a farm pond up by Willow Grove and it is loaded with largemouth bass but only the crappies were biting so far. I did see about 12 good size bass swimming the shore but I used everything in my box and they would not give it a second look. The water tempature is 49 degrees. I think a couple more weeks the bass are going to turn on. Can't wait. Mikey
3-10- I know Churchville is off limits but I was able to get down to the bridge the other day and had a blast on perch and crappies. Since no one fishes here anymore I even caught some really nice size crappies. Most of the fish were caught on jig-n-minnows but also did pretty good with chartreause sassy shads and road runners. I wanted to fish the rocks for bass but did not want to push my luck. Parking is the big problem.
3-10- Billy, I picked up my first striper this morning. We wer fishing money island down in the mouth of the Delaware river and Delaware Bay. It was only 26 inches but that first tug on the line felt so good. Tell you customers that if they are fishing the lower river and Delaware Bay to make sure they have their Delaware license. They have checked me three different times already this year. Any bloods yet?? Pete YES bloods are in. Bill
3-7- Did very good last couple of days in the lower river. Now we have not seen a striper caught but we did catch 17 catfish, 14 white perch, 6 carp. Most of the catfish have been hitting clams and chicken livers but we also caught several of them on hot dogs. The perch have been hitting bloodworms and nightcrawlers the best but again shiners have been good also. Carp have been caught on nightcrawlers and Van-do Carp bait. Hpe some stripers show up soon. The bloodworms are way to expensive to feed catfish and perch. When do you think the herring will show up and are u guys going to be selling them this year?? Alan Herring are just showing up in the Delaware Bay and down in Maryland. So I would say up here maybe the middle to the end of March. Now for selling them I have to hope all the dealers fill their freezers up fast so we get some. Time will tell. Bill
3-4-Yesterday I was up checking out Fall's Township Lake. Now I did not fish but was seeing what all the talk was about. Well it is a great looking spot and as clean as can be. Well I talked to several guys that have did some fishing early in the day and they all said a few panfish were being caught on small hair jigs fished in 10 to 15 feet of water. Just wanted to let you know what I heard.
3-4- Well the weather sure is not helping the striper run. I was down fishing off Fort Mifland yesterday on that nice 25 degree day. The winds blew and the river was really rough. It may have not been to bad if we were alloud to build a fire but here you can not. We fsihed with bloodworms, and last years herring. We made it four hours and did not have a hit. There was 4 other crazy guys there also fishing and none of them had a bite either. Well I hope next weekend will be better. Dominic
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October 24 2009 7 am to 1 pm Entry fee $10.00
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November 142009 7 am to 1 pm Entry fee $10.00
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