L.D.

Big eddies are easy to spot like the guys have already said. The still or swirl water will give them away.Don't overlook the small ones that are only a couple foot wide. Those fish are in that calm water resting or close to the current edge waiting for a meal to come down river, the faster the water the more they concentrate in and along the eddie. As I recall you are on foot wadeing so aproach from down river and cast up, they are usually faceing the current. L.D.

Wading so I guess it's not too deep. I'd use a tube jig with the lightest weight I can get away with and still keep contact on the bottom without getting hung up too often. Cast upriver and bring it down while twitching your wrist and takeing up the slack line on the reel. When in doubt, set the hook. L.D.

Welcome Swamp_Fox I spend all season on theSusquehanna River here in Pa. March to Dec. Any questions, give a yell, If I don't know the answer, someone here will. L.D.

Very nice fish! I have several Dads bring their sons or daughters on my boat. I always make a point of congradulateing them on a job well done in the Dad department. More dads should take the time and take their kids fishing. L.D.

Yeah, I know you all are waiting. But I'm not going to say it this time. L.D. (who doesn't troll for bass)

We have pretty good fishing here on the North Branch of the Susquehanna, but it seems nothing in comparison to you guys. 2004 was one of my slowest seasons due to all the floods we had, but we still managed to boat 4161 smallmouths for the season. My average is 5600 per season. Even though I fish five to six days a week, I seldom get more than one five pounder a week. But we get pretty constant action which keeps my clients happy. L.D.

Well I'm 15 plus another 35. It's good to see so many young men intrested to this degree in fishing. They are the future to our sport. I am surprised to see so many 15 to 18 year olds. At that age I was much more intrested in girls and cars than fish. L.D.

I guide the North Branch of the Susquehanna River. A far as rivers go the North Branch is relativley clean, but still some polutants exsist. Not so much from Industry up here as much as farm runoff polution. The fish commission has a warnning for the entire state to eat fish only once or twice a month from any water in the state. I personally will eat a walleye about twice a month out of the river. I have one client that keeps one walleye a week and eats it from the river. He's 80 years old now and has been fishing with me for 24 years, every Friday. (retired attorny)

Welcome aboard, if you come here often enough, you're bound to pick up a little bit of bass wisdom that you haven't thought of before. There are several things I want to try when open water comes gets here in PA. L.D.

Never got the same fish twice the same day, probibly because the way we float the river. But I have caught the same fish (with the big knotch in it's tail), three days in a row in the same spot with the same lure. L.D.

I use a lead head tube jig dipped in smelly jelly pushed up inside the tube with the bare hook showing. In the river, cast upriver most times, twitch your wrist for action and let the current push it downriver and pick up the slack with your reel and tick the rocks as you go. L.D.

Around here, it's the walleye I like to eat when I get a chance. If I catch any durring a charter I offer it to the client. They are seldom refused. I have often gone out by myself after a charter to get a couple for supper. My version of stopping at the store on the way home. L.D.

Yep, Earthworm has it right. In the river here we have what is called a Stone Cat. It's a small catfish that grows to about three inches long and has blue eyes. The bass, especially the bigger bass love them. Case Plastics makes a good imitation called the Mad Tom. L.D.

I like to go fishing for any fish, but enjoy the smallmouth most of all. They never give up the fight no matter what size they are. L.D.

Looks like non of us have fished that river. So I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd get my sneakers or boots on and get in that river and start to turn over some rocks to see what the food base is. If I would find crayfish or helgramites (the bugs from hell) . I would feel comfortable useing a tube jig or a Senko on a lead head. If you are only finding minnows and the river is that shallow, try a Rapala floater or a Husky Jerk about the same size. L.D.

It bothers me to see the big breeders kept. It's mostly done by anglers that don't get to fish often and just don't know how many years it takes to grow a big fish. I age fish as a hobby and when I see someone keeping a big bass, I tell them about how old it is. Most of the time they have no idea.

1) A 3" tube in the color of the day. 2) A Senko, rigged wrong with a lead head jig 3) A topwater Chug Bug, fished in a Spit and Pause fashion. L.D.

I use guide shirts and find them cool and comfortable. I buy the ones made by Columbia and are sold in Gander Mountain and Cabellas. I usually buy them in late August when they go on sale for $19.95. About half price. L.D.

Thanks Guys, when I go to Cabellas to buy their Guide Wear I'll see about buying some of the products you mentioned for my old Gore-Tex. L.D.

I've had a good set of Gore-Tex rainwear for close to 15 years now. I only clean them when even the fish can't stand me, then it's in a mild machine wash cycle and then put in the dryer. I paid about $250.00 for the set back then. The first five years they were great, never got wet. Now the bibs slowly seep through the butt and top of legs and the jacket seeps through the front and shoulders, in a heavy rain. There are no holes anywhere. Any old rain vets out there ever wear out Gortex? Can they be restored? How?

Sorry Glass-man The devil made me do it, I couldn't resist.

Depending on your situation( depth, current,wind, ect.) I'd use a big tube(for me thats 3 1/2") and the lightest jig weight to go in it and still touch the rocks, so I could work it slow around the rocks and not get hung up as quick. L.D.

Now I'm just teasing and I don't want to offend anyone, but on the North Branch of the Susquehanna River there is a saying amongst the locals. "Those who can't fish troll"

To pick one color only Green Pumpkin

Sounds to me you know what the cause is. Time to reduce those big fish down to two. If you don't want to eat them, find a neighbor or two that has a pond with too many small bass and needs them thinned out. I have a spring fed pond that had too many small bass in it. I put in a bunch of walleyes in it to control the bass. When the bass got down in population and the bass got bigger, I started to take out the walleye and eat them. Not a perfect check and balance but it worked ok.