I met up with FishHawk, FishHawks father, brother and his brothers girlfriend this morning out of Fort Hunter launch. We couldn't have asked for a nicer day.
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The day started partly cloudy and air temps in the 50's. FishHawk got there before I did so met him on the water. Water temps started around 56 degrees and warmed all day. The east shore water was dirty with less than a foot visability. The west shore side was cleared with visibility of several feet and a beautiful greenish tint.
The fishing was slow to start. We didn't see anyone catch a smallie (after I showed up anyway). I hooked up with one about 15". FishHawk will be along to post a pic of it later. I caught 2 more short bronzebacks in the same area. Then we all headed north of the statue and fished water new to us all.
FishHawks dad finally got on the board with a nice smallie here.
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Thanks for the cigar by the way. Three of us with big stogies looking like we were in the Susquehanna Sopranos. lo
After FishHawk decided to run further upriver, I hooked into this nice 17.5" chunk.
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About 20 minutes later FishHawk called me to tell me he was checking some sandy bottom areas looking for prespawners. While talking to him I felt a heavy weight and told him (excitedly) this is a toad. Well I put the phone down, grabbed the net and was rewarded with this beauty 19 1/4" (estimating well over 4lbs)
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She was the last fish I caught, so yes, I saved the best for last (so to speak).
All of my fish were caught on tubes in 4'-10' of water.
Here is Fishhawk saying Hi to Ultimatebass.com
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Here are some of my pictures from this past weekend. PAXpress showed us a few tricks in some of those big eddies. It was good to get together with PA again.
I did catch 1 smallie on a suspended jerk. The catching part of today was pretty slow, but what a perfect day to be out on the river.
Here's my first fish of the day
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Here's PA with one of his catches:
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and PA also saying hello to everyone out there in Ultimate Bass Land:
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On, a side note: Here's a really nice hawg my old man caught up above Duncannon two weeks ago:
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You better get on the stick Mike or your dad is going to give you a whuppin this year ;D
yeah, no kidd'in. The old man hasn't outfished me in a long time! This just might be his year, who knows.
Nice pics I got to get over to the susky this year.