The guy I work with is still nail'en them up on the lake, he always does good though.


Sorry, Predator fish, my term there for big fat honking long boney fish with teeth.

Muski, Tiger Muski, Nothern Pike.

Granted much easier to fish for up at the saint lawrence or some the lakesbut heck, I can grab my poles, hook up my boat, and be on water in 10 minutes. I'd rather spend more time fishing and not catching anything than traveling and not fishing.

The stateactually close a section of the susqie river right here for the walliesto spawn, that helps all species.

There are a lot of people that have no idea how big some fish are right here in central southern tier. Right behind enjoy golf coarse in endicottis a really big deep spot that can produce some big fish. Boat launch right there too that can still be used carefully when it gets low like it is now. Pulled a 6 to 7 pound smallmouth outta there and plenty of northerns and wallies. Not so great an area if you don't know the habitats tho and this springs flood changed the sand mud barsa lot and exposed some new rocks and buried some old rocks. theres a lot of little spots that if you didn't know to cast there you would go right on by but cast four orfivetimes into the nook and whamo, fish on every time you pass.

I know that section of river from johnson city to owego from 25 years of fishing it better than my favorite set of bar stools.

Me and my fishing buddy have hooked into some 60 plus inch fish 30 plus pounds right here in town on the susquehana. There isn't a lot in concentration of big fish and they are very very teritorial. Once you find one it's just a matter of beat the water till you finally hit his appetite button. All we fish for is big predatory fish and sometimes we find the wallies.

When you hook into a smallmouth on a 6 inch mepp's muski killer spinner, you know your in for a good time and it's definitely a keeper.

My buddy hookeda big(assumed muskie)using just a little medium minnow right next to shore from shore, he managed to pull the fish to surface before it broke the line. It seriously had to be pushing 50 pounds and pushing 70 inches. I still have trouble believing it andI even saw it happen. It had solid verticle stripes like a zebra top to bottom and each stripe was atleast 1 inch thick if not 1.5 inches thick. Quick little shimmy and flick of the 12 inch wide tail and it was gone. we saw about 12 inches tall of the side of the fish for about the last 3 feet and never saw the white belly as it rolled. I named him aquagator. To my knowledge no such fish that size has ever been caught around here. Ever.

We were wadinganothertime near there about 20 feet from each other and had a 48 inch northern swim right between us waste deep at the surface. Gulping algee at surface real slow moving. it had half inch teeth and bigger than quarter sized eyes. Awesom to see that swimming along in the same water as you waist deep. Water was crystal clear that day too.

we've never landed any of the big big ones, just bad luck right timing. Some we've never even seen other than nessy pulling at the other end of line. biggest landed by us has been a northern about 39 inches.

28 to about 36 is the norm both species and when you find one that size you usually find another. the big ones hide.

we are not 100% sure but think we might have seen something hit some ducklings this year and they were not new ones just hatched. there was this hugh splash right where they were and they all went right up onto shore and the mother just sat there quacking and quacking like she was looking for something.

I need me a duckling lure for trolling.

gotta luv that river, panfish, large and smallmouth bass, perch coming back, walleyes, northerns, muskies, tiger muskies, 20 pound cats, 3 foot carp. It's just good dang fun fishing.