2010 Fishing Journal

Date	Species	Location	Caught	Weather	Highlights	Lowlights	Media/Comments
7/9	Bass & Walleye	Allegheny River	4 Smallmouth 1 Walleye	cloudy, a couple showers, upper-70s, water temp 83°!	Found only one walleye, but really tried everything I could think of.	Alone, humid, some rain.	Fished Kennerdell... stayed in the rapids above the tunnel all morning, trying to catch walleye. Caught one on a clown rapala. Water is too hot, I think
7/5	Bass and anything	Allegheny River	11 Smallmouth 1 Walleye	hazy, humid, low-90s, water temp 82°	19 inch walleye, 19 inch bass	Very hot and humid, lots of floating crud.	Fished Kennerdell... found the walleye by accident in the deeper fast water above the tunnel. Caught on a dinger. Also had one follow my lure in the fast water below the Kennerdell bridge.
7/1	Bass and Pike	Allegheny River	4 Smallmouth Bass 1 Pike	don't recall	none, really.	tough bite, not sure why I can't catch them.	struggle to find fish that would bite... think the water temp is sending them deep or to faster water with oxygen.
6/26	Bass and Pike	Allegheny River	6 Smallmouth Bass	partly cloudy, low-80s, water temp 75°.	Fished with Dave. Saw some nice smallies below the OC bridges.	Saw a bunch of smallies, couldn't figure out how to get them to bite.	Fished from about 7am - 11am. Saw plenty of bass, but they don't seem interested... maybe the water is too clear. Lost a Musky on the topwater frog... need bigger hooks... He looked to be a good 36".
6/21	Bass and Pike	Allegheny River	6 Smallmouth Bass, 1 Pike	partly cloudy, low-70s, water temp 76°.	Found some nice smallies at the IA Eddy.	River is low and I'm still scared to run the river.	Learned about the IA Eddy... lots of big rocks. Caught 3 on spinner bait and 3 on Dinger. River is pretty shallow most of the way up. Stay to the right most of the way, but stay in the center near the eddy. Big rocks on the right side going up to the eddy. SCARY!
6/20	Panfish	Kahle Lake	18 Bluegills	partly cloudy, low-70s, breezy, water temp 77°.	Great evening for Father's Day with Corey and Kyle	Lots of dinks.	Bigger bluegills were tough to find. Wish Shawn could have joined us, but he had to work.
6/18	Bass and Pike	Allegheny River	1 Musky, 1 Smallmouth Bass, 3 Pike	partly cloudy, low-70s, water temp 74°.	Caught a 42"+ Musky!!!! Very thrilling!!!!	Smallies are tough to find.	Caught the big musky by the sewage plant. Dave helped me land it, couldn't have done it alone. Released to catch again!
6/15	Bass and Pike	Allegheny River	3 Smallmouth Bass	partly cloudy, low-70s, water temp 69°.	Pretty much had the entire river to myself	Alone and a tough bite.	Bass don't seem to be in the shallows, must be in post-spawn. Not many bites. Pike weren't very active, but the river is still a little muddy.
6/11	Bass and Panfish	Kahle Lake	5 Largemouth Bass 25 Bluegills	partly cloudy, low-60s to upper 70s, water temp 70°.	Found more nice bluegills	Alone.	Discovered many more beds in deeper water.... in between deep weed edges and shallow weeds, across from the north-side launch.
6/9	Bass and Panfish	Kahle Lake	11 Largemouth Bass 5 Bluegills	dreary then cloudy, low-60s, water temp 70°.	Enjoyable evening with Dave.	Couldn't find anything with good size.	Strike King mini-spin worked really well on bass.
6/7	Bass and Panfish	Kahle Lake	8 Largemouth Bass 20 Bluegills	partly cloudy, upper-70s, water temp 70°.	Found some nice bluegills	Difficult to find them.	Beds were tough to find with a breeze and the low water level. A little dicey putting the boat in and taking it out. Weedy as always. Silver Ghost small X-Rap worked really well on the bass.
6/2	Bass and Pike	Allegheny River	4 Smallmouth Bass	cloudy, upper-70s, water temp 70°.	Not a bad time for only a couple hours.	Storms threatening, packed up early.	Fished with Dave. Water temps to high for this time of year, Bass are already pretty much done, weeds already out of control.
6/1	Bass and Panfish	Kahle Lake	5 Largemouth Bass 5 Panfish	mostly cloudy, mid-70s.	Kayak and fishing.	Late start due to storms.	Kayaked to the dam, then fished the shore, mostly for panfish. Found some beds, but tough to see them from the kayak. Lake is very low and would be a challenge to launch a boat.
5/29	Trout	East Branch of Sugar Creek	13 Trout	mostly sunny, upper-70s.	Fished with Len for about 4 hours.	Time went too fast.	Still plenty of trout in that stream. It's getting low and the water temp is probably getting high, so their days may be numbered. Fished "Pines" to the "Blauser Bridge" and the "Steep Bank."
5/27	Bass & Pike	Allegheny River	6 Smallmouth Bass 2 Pike	mostly sunny, upper-70s. water temp 72°.	First smallies of the year. Pike on the surface.	Alone.	Fished from 5:30pm - 8:00pm. Smallies are trying to spawn, but the water is really warm. Weeds are close and pike are there.
5/23	Trout	East Branch Sugar Creek	18 Trout	partly sunny, upper-60s	Fishing with Dave, tons of fish in the stream.	Could have fished all day.	The stream was stocked, but has been too high to fish since then. There are tons of fish still left in the stream.
5/19	Trout	East Branch Tionesta	6 Trout	partly sunny, upper-60s	Minnow fishing with Corey.	Only 1 native brown.	Corey's first time on the East Branch of Tionesta. He caught 4. I caught a 16" native brown.
5/10	Bass & Panfish	Kahle Lake	5 Largemouth Bass 1 keeper Panfish	Sunny, mid-50s.	Just killing time, fishing from shore	Diabetes day.	Due to a leak in the dam, Kahle is drawn way down, too low to launch the bass boat. May try the kayak soon.
5/6	Bass & Panfish	Kahle Lake	6 Largemouth Bass 1 Crappie 4 keeper Panfish	Breezy, cloudy, low-60s.	Fishing from shore with flyrod, then rapala.	too breezy for flyrod.	Walking on shore very difficult due to mud and draw-down.
5/6	Trout	East Branch Sugar Creek	5 Trout	Cloudy, mid-50s	Fishing for browns with a rapala.	Creek a little high.	fished from hole below hi-banks to road hole... raised a bunch of stockies and caught 5, but no big browns.... a big palomino lives in the big hole below hi-banks.
5/4	Trout	Sugar Creek	12 Trout	Breezy, mid-60s.	Plenty of fish, trying to fish with bait today.	Alone.	Tons of fish still in this creek, although there's no moe stocking.
4/30	Trout	Sugar Creek	18 Trout	Breezy, mid-60s.	Great fun, fishing with dry-flies and woolybugger.		Great fun, using smallest Adams I own. Olive bugger works well, too.
4/27	Trout	Sugar Creek	14 Trout
4/24	Trout	Sugar Creek	15 Trout	breezy, mid-60s.	Flyfishing with David.		Caught a nice big sucker on a wooly bugger!
4/22	Trout	Upper Two Mile	14 Trout				Recently stocked.
4/20	Trout	Upper Two Mile	8 Trout				Just stocked, but very spooked, very low, and lots of people.
4/17	First Day of Trout	East Branch Sugar Creek	9 Trout	cloudy, mid 40s.	Best first day in a LONG time.		Boys had their best first day in a LONG time, maybe ever.
3/31	Trout	North Fork of Redbank	9	cloudy, mid-50s.	First time fishing here, just stocked the day before.		Fished just the first couple pools by the parking area, under the I-80 bridges. All fish were brook trout!
3/28	Bass & Pike	Allegheny River	0	windy, mid-50s, water temp 45°.	Fished with Dave.	VERY windy.	Unable to figure out anything.... only a couple bites.
3/27	Trout	Oil Creek	2 Trout	cloudy, mid-40s	Early Fly fishing.		Not great fishing, little patience.
3/22	Bass & Pike	Allegheny River	0	sunny, mid-60s.	First time in the boat this year!!!	no bites....	First time out, so no confidence, but everything worked in the boat except the Lowrance.
3/19	Trout	Little Sandy Creek	5 Trout	Cloudy, low-40s.	FIRST Trout fishing of the year!!!!		Fly rod worked well with woolybuggers.... lots of fish, but very spooked. Other folks fishing, too.