Eastern PA Fishing Reports

[Feng Zheng]

Hey, I'm new to the whole fishing and I just recently got my fishing kit. Can anybody here show me some skills on how to fish ? or show me around some nice fishing spot ? I'm in the lehigh valley PA.

[Imbit]

Nice fish Yotone !   Bigger than anything I've got this year for sure.    Getting alot of smb in the Delaware, but no size...   

Sideline question ...  hopefully, what I'm about to ask isn't frowned upon akin to asking to dance with another guys wife ... another eastern PA fishing discussion board (EPFR.net) has been off the grid for over a month - I can't find any reference to whats going on anywhere on the web.    I know most of us die hard fishermen frequent other boards ... just curious if anybody has heard anything about whats going on with EPFR.net or if its DOA ?

 

I found this in my computer cache - just a reminder of what their web site used to look like ... thx for any intel

 

 

[tracker01]

Bassresource and EPFR were my must read sites. I also would like to know what’s up.

[Quarry Man]

haven't been able to fish in a while

[YoTone]

5 hours ago, Quarry Man said:

haven't been able to fish in a while

how did marsh treat you that time?

[Quarry Man]

didn't catch anything, marked fish in like 30' only stayed for a hour or two, few other boats, only guy I talk\ed to said they were there all day and caught one

[Megastink]

Quakertown here! Fish mostly Nockamixon and do fairly well there.also have a honey hole in Dingmans Ferry (where I grew up) and drag my boat up that way sometimes.

 

wife and I had our second baby in August, so fishing time has been about non-existent since then. Hopefully spring will be better!

[YoTone]

On 12/8/2019 at 8:46 PM, Megastink said:

Quakertown here! Fish mostly Nockamixon and do fairly well there.also have a honey hole in Dingmans Ferry (where I grew up) and drag my boat up that way sometimes.

 

wife and I had our second baby in August, so fishing time has been about non-existent since then. Hopefully spring will be better!

Nice. i plan on trying my luck on the nox this new season. i spent most of my time at marsh and i want to switch it up a little bit. hopefully the traffic isnt as crazy as marsh is.

[Quarry Man]

friend and I are going to marsh creek Monday. might go back with yo tone depending on how it goes

[YoTone]

first victim of 2020 while bank fussing with a spinner bait 

[YoTone]

On 3/7/2020 at 11:17 PM, Quarry Man said:

friend and I are going to marsh creek Monday. might go back with yo tone depending on how it goes

How were the conditions?

[Quarry Man]

On 3/10/2020 at 5:19 PM, YoTone said:

How were the conditions?

20+ bass boats. water temps 42* main lake, 44* by the dam. Did not make it up and secondary points or channels before battery died. one tote in 30 feet

[YoTone]

ugh already that many? i really hate the boat traffic.  maybe this year ima hit south jersey again. smaller waters but less people.

[YoTone]

Stayed local this weekend. Didn't plan on going out since my girls didn't have any plans. Then a gift from God, my daughters friend invited her over. Loaded my kayak and dropped her off and went straight to the waters. The chatter bait was basically all I tossed. 

[Quarry Man]

was this at a big lake or a pond? only reason I ask is because water temps at marsh creek were a bit cold for a chatterbait bite imo, granted I didn't try for it

[YoTone]

It was a very small Shallow pond and it was during the end of the day so I guess the water was warm enough for them to chase. Is Marsh open?

[Quarry Man]

2 hours ago, YoTone said:

It was a very small Shallow pond and it was during the end of the day so I guess the water was warm enough for them to chase. Is Marsh open?

open as in ice free? yes, water temps were 42* last week on that super warm day

 

as in the park due to the virus, not sure, word on the street is its closed, yet ive heard otherwise also. I will look into it soon

[YoTone]

Cabelas spinner bait on my lunch break.

[Adam Markley]

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[oysterk]

Marsh Creek still seems a little chilled @Quarry Man did you manage to catch anything that day? Haven't bothered to take the boat out yet, but got skunked from the bank, fishing that point at the mouth of carpenter's cove the other day.

[YoTone]

Wife said I had 30 minutes after work. Made the most of it with the chatterbait. Surprised about the snakes biting so early in the year.

[Adam Markley]

Nice job tone. Hoping this virus blows over quickly, and everything opens back up.

[Quarry Man]

3 hours ago, oysterk said:

Marsh Creek still seems a little chilled @Quarry Man did you manage to catch anything that day? Haven't bothered to take the boat out yet, but got skunked from the bank, fishing that point at the mouth of carpenter's cove the other day.

no luck, water temps were 42* I expect them to be around 45-48 currently but cannot tell for sure. I had to walk in because our batteries stopped working and went numb after 10 seconds. Turns out I was low on water. I ended up putting 1 gal of distilled water into two batteries. yikes.

[YoTone]

57 minutes ago, Adam Markley said:

Nice job tone. Hoping this virus blows over quickly, and everything opens back up.

for sure, luckily i live a block away from a small pond in south philly. This early spring like weather has really kick started the fishing for me. i was thinking about marsh this weekend but i really hate boat traffic.  im a kayaker so i when i pedal my way near the bridge and see so many spots being pounded its a wasted 40 minutes going there then back to the southern coves. 

 

btw maybe this thread needs to be opened up to other areas near us like south jersey or upper delaware. I feel like their reports can be good since its basically the same conditions.

[JediAmoeba]

Fishing sucks so bad in the Poconos right now.  I spent 6 hours today and 2 yesterday creeping jigs on the bottom, slow-rolling Dark Sleepers, throwing jerkbaits, hudd 68's, ned rigs of various styles and only one bite... which I missed.  The bass are just not ready I guess...