Will Ketchum

Why do boat fishermen cast towards the bank, and bank fishermen cast towards the middle of the lake? ?

I think it's just persistence and the amount of time on the water. There's still a lot of smaller ones no one talks about, but they do talk about the big ones.

I sold my boat when I reached "geezer-hood" and only bank fish now. The best part of bank fishing is shade on a hot day. Another is getting up close and personal with plants and critters.

I have a small digital camera that I take fishing. It has a place on the bottom to mount a tripod if needed. I screwed an eye bolt into it and attached a shoe lace through the eye bolt and put it around my neck. The camera goes in the shirt pocket. I learned this the hard way after another camera ended up in the river. Phones should come equipped with something similar.

I don't think the problem is so much what to use but in getting them out of them d**n weeds. I'm thinking heavy line and a stiff rod. Good luck.

They look like yellow jackets. Google them. I had a bunch of them here two years ago trying to build nests in my house. One place was at the front door, and the other was in the basement through a crack they found. They never came back after that year. They could be looking for a place to build a nest. I suggest killing them before they get too comfortable.

Ahhh! The good old worm and bobber combo. It never gets old and is effective.

All I remember from the little bit of night fishing I did was mosquitoes, a beaver who did a lot of what beavers do at night, and wishing I hadn't gone night fishing in the first place causing me to be overtired the next day,

It's probably your technique. I say this because when fishing with my brother with jigs, he invariably out fishes me. I guess I'm a cheapskate hating to lose a jig by getting stuck on the bottom, so I'm probably retrieving too fast. Watching him, he lets it sink to the bottom and sit, and then lifts the rod while turning the crank a few turns and waits again. He really doesn't get hung up that much.

Sadly that's nothing new. I lost count of the places off limits anymore.

When I read the word "quantum", I turn off immediately.

Carp aren't native to the U.S. and look how that turned out.

I live near the North Branch, and once you go north from the Wilkes-Barre area it gets more rural and scenic. Generally it's easier to get the bigger ones in the fall, and more smaller ones in the summer.

If you're pooped from the first day, you won't enjoy the second. It will seem like work (yuch!). When I've gone the next day because on the first they were biting like crazy, on the second day they weren't.

I unintentionally fell in once on a steep bank, but I was fishing a reservoir for drinking water so the water was pristine mostly.

All I can add is that if you are going to bounce a jig off the bottom, cast perpendicular to the current or you'll probably get hooked up.

If they are catching fish on a worm and a bobber, maybe that's enough. Success will keep them interested and failure will turn them off if you push them too far and too fast.

From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mossback "a large sluggish fish (such as a largemouth bass)"

After the contest is over, I wonder what the contestants do behind the scenes. They could force themselves to puke it all up. Yuch!

Pennsylvania Outdoor Life has been a local TV show here for 40 years. They feature hunting, fishing and pretty much any thing related to the outdoors even including picking mushrooms. If you have time on your hands, take a look. https://www.wnep.com/outdoor-life

That stretch from Pittston to Lynnwood is in the center of the Wyoming Valley and is highly populated. I know because I live there. It is plagued by municipal outflows, and although there are treatment plants, nothing's perfect. The Lackawanna River also empties just above Pittston and is another drainage of a highly populated area, I would recommend upriver which is rural. There's are launches in Tunkhannock, Falls and one a few miles upriver from Pittston called Apple Tree access. You would have to figure out if the float distances are right for you. There is a kayak rental business in Falls also that takes groups down to Apple Tree access. River height in Wilkes Barre: https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=bgm&gage=wbrp1 The lowest it usually gets is about 1.5 feet. The river is a mix of rifts and pools with no dangerous rapids. Some useful links : https://pfbc.pa.gov/watertrails/susq_northbranch/nbranch_sec2.pdf https://pfbc.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=ef4db86320d24c0d8e05e4569b30c06c

On my right cheek I have sun sensitive spot that will turn red; form a pimple and then bleed after a while if I don't protect it. I'll use SPF 50 sun screen, and if I'm going to spend a real long time outdoors like mowing the lawn, I'll put a band-aid over it to keep it shaded. I also bought a very broad billed billed crusher hat for those times. All from 80 years of never worrying about the sun.

A thinner and more limp line gives more casting distance. Casting accuracy outweighs distance.

When hiking through brush I carry a walking stick and swing it back and forth to knock any ticks off their game before I pass. Try that with your paddle.

How many golf balls do you think are in that big, fat belly?