Mrs. Matstone

Great post pics and fish too! Looks like you guys had a great time and it really looks like a good spot you have to fish there. Congrats to you.. ;D ;D

Thanks guys the trip yesterday was great.. I found a new favorite bait to add to my river arsenal and catching that cat was something else. Those things hit like a freight train. I am going to be adding him to my fishing scrapbook for sure. ;D I am still hurting from crashing and burning yesterday but I have to rest up because I am taking a guide trip on Thursday. Last April I took one and we caught 117 fish and that is gonna be tough to beat but I am sure gonna try. ;D ;D

Holy cow! What a fat fish.. Congrats to you! ;D

Welcome to the site, were glad to have you with us. ;D

Yesterday in the late afternoon and early evening my I hit the river for a little bit. The bite was real tough but I still managed to catch some fish. We only got about 10 fish total. Nothing real big caught today but it was still fun. I fished the lizard which is quickly becoming my new favorite bait on the river for sure. Today I rigged it on a 1/8 ounce jig head. It has such a great wiggle when it is rigged like this. ;D Since the sun was setting quickly I decided to call it a day and head up river. Arrived back at the truck and we decided to go and do some night time 4 wheeling since I had no kids for the night it was a blast! Something I had not done in a long time and did not realize how much I missed it. I did not take alot of pics today but here is one of the fish I caught. This morning I got up and my husband was already working so I begged and pleaded with him to go fishing with me and guess what??? I won! Sometimes I can be very persuasive. ;D Again we headed out to the Delaware and I was armed with my lizard once again. The fish were quite a bit more active today once I located them. I found most of them in the currant seams and shallower water adjacent to steep drop offs. I caught quite a few fish before the head on my lizard was just not staying on the jighead anymore. The fish were brutal today. I looked in my pack and low and behold I had no more lizards. Well then I decided I was just gonna bite the head of the lizard and fish it with just a body. I caught and lost quite a few more fish with it just like this before I had to retire the lizard for good. Here is one of the fish that I caught on the headless lizard. Here is an up close pic of my headless lizard. After having to retire the lizard I dug around in my pack and had to come up with something else to use. I remembered that someone on here ( I don't remember who) was talking about using just the chunk on a jig head so that is what I did. Then I hiked up the shoreline a little further and it is not easy hiking this section of river at all. I crashed and burned big time! :'( Man did it hurt, however I did manage to save my rod from going in the drink and that is exactly what I was yelling to my husband when I popped back up because I knew I was gonna be in trouble for going in again. I repositioned myself on the slippery rocks and casted out with that chunk on a jighead and let me tell you it is the perfect little compact river bait. I casted only a few times and all the sudden BAM! I had on what I thought must have been the biggest smallie ever! It was taking drag and I was a grinnin from ear to ear. When I finally got it closer to shore where I could see it I noticed it was silver and white and I had no idea what it was so I did what every woman would do and started yelling for my husband to come and help me. He heard my drag going and was already heading up the shoreline. I ended up with this big catfish. I do not know what kind of catfish it was but it was the biggest that I ever caught. What an awesome experience. ;D Here is an up close pic of my catfish caught on a rage chunk. I only had 1 claw left on the thing after this cat but I fished it anyway and got a few more smallies and a rock bass to on it. It was an awesome day and I have another favorite new bait for the river. Well I am tired I hiked about 1/2 mile upstream today and back down again so I am headed to bed early tonight. I hope you all had the chance to get out and do some fishing today too.

Welcome home! It is good to have you back with us.

Happy Birthday! ;D ;D

Happy Birthday LBH! I hope you have a great one and my favorite color is gun metal too.

Congrats to you, sounds like a great day in the slop and nice fish too! ;D

That is awesome rondef. Congrats on your new PB smallie! ;D

As a topwater bait in the slop they are by far the best. I have had a blast with these things. Good luck to you. ;D

Very nice fish. Congrats. ;D

I love catching pickerel. They grab that bait and run. What a blast. Congrats to you. ;D

Avid definitely said it best. Congrats to you and your family for some time well spent on the water. Thanks for sharing. Great post.

Thanks everyone. I had lots of fun out there. Went out for a bit yesterday too and caught a few more. I hope you all did too. I will try to remember that. It certainly sounds better than my oh so technical description of "creature thingy" lol ;D

I happen to think that's great. ;D Congratulations to your girlfriend and Congrats to you for taking her. ;D

I was thinking the same thing. ;D Maybe it is the rest of us that are off.

That is amazing and that is one talented fish or you are one talented fisherman. ;D I bet you could not do that again if you tried. lol

Nice fish and great pics! Glad to see that you found a new bait you like so much. Thanks for sharing.

Well I have caught a catfish on one before too and also a frog and a bat. Although the bat was not in the water when I got it just afterwords.

Thanks for the kind commments guys. I have been having a blast out there. It it cool to have people to share it with too. ;D I fish from shore alot so I find it best to travel light and keep things simple. I do have another rod which I love too but I find that if I have too much stuff along it just complicates things, I end up getting frustrated and it takes all the fun out of it.

Well since I have not fished in days except for a few hours yesterday I was whispering in my husbands ear at 5am " The fish are biting ". He was not so willing to go out that early so I finished up some work that I had to do around the house and we finally headed out around 2pm. We arrived at the lake and naturally I decided to hit the slop again with the shad. I ended up with this one... After catching a few more on the shad I switched over to the toad. Rondef had me wanting to try it so bad with his posts that I could not wait any longer. First few casts out and I had one on and it was a nice one too! I got him almost to shore and he came unbuttoned. UGH! > I was a little disappointed and after a few not so nice words I was now more determined. I moved up the shoreline a little and continued casting, varying my rate of retrieve a little just trying to get used to this new bait. It was not long and I had one on.. This one was proving hard to get the hook out and I was getting a little frustrated! I casted out again and then I ended up with this guy.. He made up for the good one that I lost in the beginning. ;D Then I tried the lizard and got this guy! Ain't he cute! Then I tried the creature bait thingy. I did not know how to fish this but I caught a fish on it anyway. Last but not least this is what I did with the big guy. Sent him back... I do this with all my fish.. ;D All that and I am tired.. getting old I guess. lol At the end of the day I had an awesome day and had a great time fishing with all my new stuff. I cannot wait to go out and try it all over again another day.. Just not tomorrow. I have to mow and I now have my arm wrapped up again. I hope you all had the chance to get out and fish too. ;D Also before I forget again. I got my FIRST EVER WALLEYE! I got it at the river the other day and man do those suckers have teeth! ;D I got it on the lizard thing and I did REAL WELL with this bait for smallies at the river. ;D My first ever walleye!

Awesome smallies. Congrats to you and I too love the markings on that second fish. Beautiful! ;D

That is awesome! Congrats to all of you. ;D

Great pic and nice fish too. Congratulations to her and Congratulations to you on some time well spent! ;D