The last few days

well,I've been trying a few different things the last couple days. After the biblical rains wednesday, my spot by the Troy dam was not in the best of shape for any kind of shore fishing.

(no sign of hookers there either)

Thursday a buddy of mine invited me down to fish a little pond in schenectady that has some carp, koi, perch and LUNKER bass!! He showed me a couple pictures he had of some bass they had caught down there, and they were definately in the 6-8 lb range. So i set up 1 pole for carp, and the other for LUNKER bass. well..... after about 45 minutes of my nightcrawlers being stolen i had a run on my carp pole.
Reeled it in, and in the middle of about 10 lbs of weeds was this little golden feller'

I landed a MONSTER goldfish. A new species for me and not something I was expecting to catch. So I brought him home and put him in my fishtank......

Friday I was Bored so i stopped by the Lock in Waterford on the Mohawk and Jigged off the wall for about an hour and pulled in a few of these guys


So today, with the Hudson still ragin from yesterday's biblical rains, I went back to "Mud Puppy Bay". My old faithful Carp/Catfish spot on the mohawk. After about 30-45 minutes I had my first fish take a run, this thing took off full steam and pulled drag out like a demon, got him 5 feet from shore and the hook pops out. A little while later, i get a second run on my other pole. This one pulled even harder and just would not stop.....that is until he managed to swim right into the dreaded "cabela's snag".
So for the next few hours I get to sit and watch my 3 other friends pulling in carp ranging from 12-16 lbs.
As well as another one of my friends pulling in a few of these little guys

Believe it or not, he was catching these little stripers on chicken livers.......who'd'a thunk it??

Finally after a couple more hours the fish finally found my poles, I ended up with 3 carp all around 14-16 lbs.

A strange couple days during a strange wet summer........

Very Nice!! I also had fun with them big crappies at lock 1 a few weeks ago!! The first one I thought was a smallies, the way it was fighting!! Just wish we could fry some!!

Pike:

Like my dad use to say about fish from Lake Michigan "I eat them until the glow in the dark bothers my wife when we go to bed!".

Eagle Ed

**** Pike-  thats a nice smorgasbord of river fish there.  You got em right in the canal park at the wall where they dock?  Or by the Peebles side?  LOL I never catch doodoo at that wall.  Good deal.

Right across from the building you see in the picture, there is a big sign that says "welcome to the Canal system" or something like that, right at the end of the wall in front of that sign is a sweet spot.

I see guys all the time out there, all up and down the wall catchin crappies with fathead minnows. I just use a TINY hook, a couple split shots, and little pieces of worm. I post some more pics at some point.

Jigs- Thanks, Catchin' them carp never gets old!!

backin'- luckily the spot we were fishing is pretty far off of the main current of the river, it doesn't really start movin until you get about 30 feet out or so, it's about as safe it's going to get with these crazy conditions

Nice fish, Pike! My PB crappie came right off that wall, but further down by the launch. When I was younger, my father and I would fish down there from the wall every single night for catfish in the summer. Its interesting, there is a good bite for different fish species every month of the year in that area.

got em- never ice fished there, but i saw tons of holes drilled out there during the winter. Still haven't gotten my tiger either......yet!!!!

deadfishred- last summer i fished for catfish down there up to 3 times a week, lot of fun. I definately picked up on the monthly patterns down there too. May is an awesome month off that wall for tons of catfish.

Jimmy- I think the great flood was sent too wash away the "hot pant harlots"

well.... i'm bored so i'm going to post a bunch of pics of fish I caught down there last year.......

My buddies LUNKER crappie


Redbreasterd Sunny


Big Sunny


Nice size Rock Bass


White bass???? I'm not sure...... but he REALLY wanted my crawdad!!!!



6 lb. Sheepshead


a couple 10+ lb cats



And finally a cool little mud puppy

Awsome PIKE! hey as much as you like the carp fishing, and I can see why with those bigguns you catch, you might wanna check the "long pole post" I just put up cause it is being used by carp busters a lot now days and gettin even more popular. 40 lbs of carp on 10" of line at the end of a 30 ft pole! could get wild!

The sheeps/drum are something i've been wanting to catch more of but haven't had the time.
I caught 2 last year (5 lbs and 6 lbs) both on crawfish.
At conroys in watervliet I heard someone recently pulled a 25 lber out of the hudson!!
Think it might be time to go for some.......

 
I have too thought about someday trying to target them in the Hudson. They are a fun fight and just as big as the Stripers i catch.
A guy i work with goes all the time from shore in Watervliet, they pull up fish in the mid teens regularly and a few exceeding 20lbs  !!
The run the same slider rig and gear as for Stripers but for bait the put 2 monster crayfish on the hook.
 
BB

sheephead are a blast on light tackle..we caught a few in oneida lk. over the last few years.. i remember posting here that people up there claim the fish meat tastes somewhat like lobster or similiar seafood. Anybody ever try sheephead ?

 
This slob was taken just last night locally
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

hey bb..was that drum caught in the hudson ???

ya hit the nail right on the head..thats where my bud got a striper yesterday...drum,cats,yeah there there..found a dead drum in the begining of the year a little south of the "filtration plant"...it measured 36"..gotta be bigger ones in the area,or I would think anywhere in the hudson...