Matt casting on our local tribs with CPX switch rod...

The Grand at Paine Creek...

Fisherman on lower Elk...

Smallmouth hookup Yesterday on Local Trib...


We got out yesterday to get a good luck at things and try a little fishing, not necessarily in that order. We started the morning on one of our local east side tribs swinging streamers with about 12 inches of vis and 58 degree water temps. We fished pretty hard for a few hours with 2 hard fighting smallmouth to show for our efforts. We wrapped up our fishing around 11am and began scouting around to let you know what to expect on our local tribs. Obviusly at this point everything is pretty blown out, but thats a good thing...more cold rain is falling today lowering river temps and more importantly flushing all the sedimant from the summers out of the system...I expect fishing on the East side to start gaining momentum mid-next week as fish have been staging for a few weeks and are ready to begin their annual migration. As always the East side tribs will be better earlier, that is Eastern Ohio and PA and with better fishing gradually working its way West.

The larger Ohio tribs should be fishable Tue-wed while the smaller Ohio and PA tribs will work Late Sunday, Monday depending on the amount of rainfall. For flies stick with your traditional patterns while keeping in mind that these fish have been in the Lake all summer eating large baitfish so....streamers and baitfish patterns will produce very aggressive strikes...

Good Luck and stay tuned as we will be reporting back every few days...Dan