Ohio River - What gives?

About 7 hours of fishing on Saturday evening, and 1 6" sauger for me...  Where the heck are the fish?  A few other guys with me caught a few small fish as well.  Biggest fish caught was a 12" sheepshead...  I was thinking the sudden drop in temps would get things moving, but didn't seem to do anything.  Hoping the continued fall weather, turns on the fall bite.
 
The bouys in the back channel have been moved back a little, but still 100+ yards from the dam.  Why are these still this far back?  Lock 2 & 3 on the Allegheny seem to be much closer.  Anyone know if the main channel bouys are as far back?

the rivers have been horrible all year, trust me

fished the ohio river last night, got a couple walleye 15-18", a couple small sauger, a 15" smallmouth, and some small largemouth all in an hour and a half.  looks like things might be getting better.

You are fishing in the wrong spots.  Ohio river has been great this year, and right now with the temp. dropping only getting better.  Will have pics to post hopefully tomorrow. 

Chicken livers have its ups an downs, it works very well but, if u whip it to try to cast far, it usually goes flyin halfway across the river, it will stay on tho pretty good if u ses a bigger hook and hook it as much as possible, as for cleaner, i'll bet the fish u catch on it are dirtier than the liver itself, if u really don't wanna use dirtier stuff, definatly don't use stink bait.
 
Ronnie

ORIGINAL: haemofish

You are fishing in the wrong spots.  Ohio river has been great this year, and right now with the temp. dropping only getting better.  Will have pics to post hopefully tomorrow. 

 
I guess that I am.  Fishing the Emsworth pool, mostly back channel.  Talking to others on the water, doesn't sound like much going on around there.  The mouth of Montour, which is usually packed at this time of year, has had 2-3 guys just about every time I pass it.
 
As for chicken livers, maybe try salting them.  This is what the bait shops in NJ do to their clams.  It stiffens them up, and helps keep them on the hook.  Not sure if it would work, but might be worth a shot.  I'm not sure how they do it.  I know that they are not covered in salt, so imagine it is salt water.  Maybe drain the liquid from the tub, and replace with a brine solution, and let sit for a day or two, to stiffen up.  Try following some of the egg curing recipes from the steelhead forum.  I'd imagine they would be a little cleaner to work with after, and definitely stay on the hook better.  They'd likely not smell as much, so who knows if they'd work as well.

The mouth of Montour is terrible. Fishing there two weeks ago, only caught a 10'' sm bass in two hours. No one else caught anything at that time.

ORIGINAL: Porktown

I guess that I am.  Fishing the Emsworth pool, mostly back channel.  Talking to others on the water, doesn't sound like much going on around there.  The mouth of Montour, which is usually packed at this time of year, has had 2-3 guys just about every time I pass it.

Two weeks ago a friend and I hit Emsworth and did pretty well considering the bite was slow. Biggest eye was 15" even, biggest sauger was around 19" lost at the boat, one decent hybrid around 4lbs. or so, one big white bass and a few smaller ones. The only other boat on the water untill 10 am nailed  an eye around 7-8 lbs. Nice fish. Joe Baker and I hit the Ohio a month and a half ago, give or take and he slammed afew nice sized hybrids. Post a pic joe, I don't know how to do that. The bite should be getting better, I'll post results from tomorrow.

How you been Dan??  Figured with the cold weather & work you'd be off the water - not so I see.  Haven't hit the rivers yet - maybe this week. Dave

Stingers.....never leave home without em.  Saved many a day for me with short hits. Glad to hear you racked em. Me & brother are gettin ready to terrorize the rivers if I can get him away from his traps.  Take care, Dave

Be careful if you are boating. Keep the outboard running in case you start to get sucked in. It happens quickly. I came real close to getting sucked in at Highland Park a few times when the lockmaster let me have at 'em. Don't be stupid. The fellows working on the back channel are real nice, probably just waiting for some entertainment from some dumas who gets too close. Be nice, be careful, don't ruin it by way of stupidity. And you really don't have to get that close now.