A ton of people fishing. Most of the popular shore spots were filled on Friday night, with boats on just about all the open water. Fishing was pretty slow for us. The bait showed up around 11, fish didn't show up on the surface for an hour or so, and very far and few. They seemed to be on the South shore on Friday. I was on the North Shore, but could hear them across the lake...

Check yourself for ticks after you get home! They are out in full force this year.

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I have only been up twice and between me and my bro I would say our average wiper has been about 16".  We have mainly been using alewives though and only caught a few on plugs.  No eyes yet either.
 
I guess we are fishing the wrong spots

This last weekend was nuts. Friday every spot but under the 528 bridge was taken. Me and a buddy spent all day catching creek chubs. I landed a striper in about 10 minutes, and a channel cat about 10 minutes after that. Then my buddy caught a largemouth, no size, but still a good fight. He handed me his spare pool and went down to grab an extra minnow and he had a hit I set the hook and he turned to see and kicked all our bait into the bucket . We got his fish in and it was a walleye so we did hit the cycle in about 45 minutes. But for future scenarios, if this were to happen again, how is the general feeling, if a man asks you if you'd like to make $10 catching a dozen alewife for him?

Okay wondered if they're was a fine figured there was. But last year when people would leave they'd give me their alewife. Besides a couple little guys our average is probably 22+. Biggest being about 30 maybe 31. Our scale stops there. It was just tad bigger. Smallest was 14

Haven't been striper fishing yet this year, but the walleyes are nice so far this year. Although I did get a 25 incher that was as thin as a sauger. It was wierd. Not a fan of these sunny days. Gonna have to deal with surface lilly pads after dark now, I'm sure. Bombers and lilly pads don't get along.

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I normally hook my creek chubs behind the dorsal fin and toss em out deeper past the alewifes, unweighted. Other wise all the cats get em. I dont tighten my line to the chub, leave out slack so you know when your lines tightens and starts going in different directions its a gamefish.

Didn't get out until 1:00am Saturday night.  Saw a shore fisherman carrying two nice eyes when walking back from parking the trailer and thought things looked promising.  Talked to a guy bring his boat in while we were launching and he said that they were smacking and they were when we got to the little island.  The alewifes were active as I'll get out and indeed the stripers were feeding on the other side of the island from where we were.  The problem was that there were already three boats hitting that spot.  We motored to a couple of other spots with no baitfish action whatsoever.  When the other boats had vacated the island, we went back and the bite was totally over.  That was about 3:30.  Oh well, we'll get them in two weeks.

Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) is alerting anglers, boaters and the general public that it will completely draw down Butler County’s Glade Run Lake amid new concerns that a partial drawdown will create safety issues for anglers and may lead to a high rate of mortality among remaining fish.

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We did well Thursday and Saturday using flies. Tossing into the thick of the lily pads produced some nice Largemouths that must've been in there a while because they were much darker green than the LMs I caught in open water.

Your not kidding it was windy, it sucked I would rather fish in the rain than the wind. I also caught a couple nice LMB. Switched to trolling for eyes around noon had a nice eye on but lost it at the boat.

I saw a bunch of dead Alewives at the old 422 launch area, all about 4 - 5 inches in length.