Episode-1342- Fishing Rivers and Streams
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Part of the Susquehanna I Fished Often in my Teens.
If I had a blue sky budget I would live on a small to mid sized river, that should tell you how I feel about this subject. Of all types of fishing I love fishing moving fresh water the best. Rivers come in many sizes. I grew up fishing the St. John’s River in Jacksonville Florida. While I have many fond memories of it, that is not the type of river I most enjoy fishing. The St. Johns where I fished it was over a mile wide, the water was brackish, tides could easily drown a swimmer, etc. Rivers like that I see more akin to bays and pier and surf fishing.
In 1985 when I was just hitting my teens we moved from Jacksonville, Florida to Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Soon I wash fishing trout streams from little trickles you could walk across in 2-4 steps all the way up to the mighty Susquehanna north of Harrisburg.
Now the Susquehanna where we fished it was wide, like the St. John’s almost a mile wide but in some areas you could almost walk across it! By wading you could find all sorts of formations, it was almost like finding mini creeks in the rivers. This is the type of river and stream fishing I will be talking about today. Bodies of water you can fish from shore, wading or with small boats. Water that you can “read” and actually understand what going on below the surface by how the water moves.
Join Me Today to Discuss…
- River, steam, brook, creek, crick, call it what you want it is all fun
- Choosing your gear for moving water
- Learning to “read” water
- Deep pools
- Edies
- Fast moving deep water
- Ledges
- Cut outs and deep banks
- There is a lot more, you learn to just see it
- Some of my favorite species to fish moving water for and how I do it
- Trout of any and all kind
- Small Mouth Bass – my favorite
- Catfish
- Fresh Water Drum – yes I am serious
- White Bass – like a micro salmon run
- How to find spots and access points
- Float fishing with canoes, how to reach spots others never go to
- Small boats on slow deep swamp like rivers
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Loving these shows. Can’t wait for the coastal surf one. If you ever make it down to gulf coast to do some fishing, count me in. Just up the coast a little ways
I’m in for the Coast fishing trip as well!
Can’t wait to listen to this one. My BOL is just a stones throw from the Susquehanna (North Branch).
I live on a small river with small schools of fish. Unfortunately there is a wastewater treatment plant upstream that puts algae in the water and have to pay for ramped up flood insurance because FEMA is bankrupt due to Sandy and Katrina. Great views though.
I went with my friends family to PA when I was about 14 to visit his grandmother. We went to some of the backwoods streams to fish. I still think about those PA streams a lot. Awesome times and great fishing with a good friend. Life gets no better than that!
Count me in for your show on herbs!
Love the fishing episodes !! Please do the cooking one
Awesome episode Jack! Brought back memories for me. In my neck of PA, we fished streams for trout from April to May, lakes for trout May to June and waded lakes at night for bass.
First day of trout fishing in PA prepared me for combat fishing for salmon on a trip to Alaska.
In Arkansas “Buffalo” fish is a good fish to eat that most call trash fish. There are a lot of those in Petit Jean river for example.
As far as resources for finding access points The Gazetteer for whatever state was an awesome resource.
Another very useful resource is the USGS stream flow data. http://waterdata.usgs.gov/usa/nwis/rt
It is very useful when you are getting ready to go fishing. You can predict water conditions before you get there. Nothings worse than driving an hour to your favorite stream/creek only to find it muddy due to a rain event. You can track rain events by the increases in flow rate and/or water level.
Great show Jack, but did you have to tell everyone the “small water” secret? 🙂
Wow – thank you SO much, Jack! It’s so funny how timing works in life. I’ve been getting fired up for fishing over the long winter; getting my licenses + info squared away etc etc. Basically doing everything to overcompensate for NOT being outside! I’ve been listening (and LIVING) your show for a while; your decision to do a fishing series just took it to another level.
Hi Jack,
I fished for native brook trout in mountains streams all through my late teens and 20’s using ultra light fly rod from an orvis kit that I assembled myself and tied my own wet flies. I also did fishing trips in the Canadian wilderness of Quebec
In my mid 30’s I took up surfing ..
Anyway, a friend of mine says has a daughter who is a biologist and tells me that fish in Maine are contaminated with mercury from acid rain. That is discouraging as otherwise I might consider fishing as a supplemental way to feed myself as I get older or during retirement. Any thoughts on that ? What about other parts of the USA or the world ?
hey jack
just thought id share a little story of my own. living in oregon i spend as much time chasing salmon and steelhead as i can but one week a year i take off for alaska to visit friends and go to a cabin my buddy owns. two years ago on lake creek fishing for coho (silvers) we were having a hell of a time trying to hook up using common salmon methods. i found a little rainbow color rooster tail in my buddys tackle box and said what the hell i might as well target trout. i started pitching it straight upstream only a foot or two from the bank and bam!!! 13 salmon landed for in 16 casts! that spinner was wrecked!!! it was epic. thank you for these shows they’re a nice change of pace and go right along with one of my biggest passions. keep up the great work