Me and some buddies are headed up there next weekend to go camping on the river right above Harrisburg. Any tips on what's biting and what lures we should be using ? It's all of our first time fishing the Susquehanna.

Smallies! I throw spinnerbaits and small

Plastics on jig heads. Tubes/grubs. Have fun!

Thanks! I can't wait. We will be fishing pretty well all weekend. Hopefully they are biting good

Haven't fished there lately but my usual baits this time of year are crankbaits, topwaters and flukes.  The trick is finding where they are staging based on water levels and temps.  usually the water is pretty warm by now so the more oxygenated and deeper waters produce.  Also don't hesitate to thrwo topwaters all day long as they will come fro ma long ways away to hit a bait.

 

Good luck and let us know how you do

Will do. I'm hoping to do well. I'll take some pics

Just got back and for some reason can't upload pics but we caught alot in .75-1.5 lb weigh limit and the biggest was 2.6 lbs.

ive been wantting to go up there.. i hear is smallie heaven

We stayed at ferry boat campgrounds right on the river and where we stayed it was shallow...we caught alot under 1 lbs. Then we went on the float with blue mountain outfitters and when it got to deeper water looked to be 10' plus we caught the bigger ones. I had alot of fun, first time fishing for smallies and I can't wait to go back. It's alot of fun fishing for them.