Good news on the Mon. fish populations...

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/outdoors/s_730684.html

Significant increase in overall #'s of fish and fish species b/w 2003 and 2010. Just hope we don't take any steps backwards in the near future.

You can pretty much find data out there to support any argument that you'd like just by using the Internet.  The problem is that the data represented only shows what the original poster (The Trib) wants the story to tell.

smallmouth might be down. but look how many spotted bass

I wish the trib was printed on softer paper, then it would have some sort of usefulness.

Gooooo Mon!
Gooooo Trib!

ORIGINAL: Porktown

ORIGINAL: Porktown

I wish the trib was printed on softer paper, then it would have some sort of usefulness.

Wild John should change his name to Porta John, then his responses would be much more useful...

Still don't like the Trib, and have the weekend subscription. Sports reporting is horrible, and anything politics is like Fox News in print.

Nothing wrong with that, nothing at all!

I've fished right up from it a few hundred yards from it on the opposite side of Kennywood.  You can get access by driving down a few of the roads over there that branch off of Braddock Ave.  You can actually drive right up to the river and park.
 
Personally I've not caught anything but mudcats and 1 what I think was a sheephead.  Friends of mine have caught bass, gar, and even a 35 inch walleye.  Happy fishing!
 
And yes I'm also glad that bridge is done being worked on.  Every time I get on it now I was to do 80 mph just to make up for all the lost time sitting in traffic over the last few years.

ORIGINAL: Porktown

ORIGINAL: Porktown

I wish the trib was printed on softer paper, then it would have some sort of usefulness.

Wild John should change his name to Porta John, then his responses would be much more useful...

Still don't like the Trib, and have the weekend subscription. Sports reporting is horrible, and anything politics is like Fox News in print.

And what pray tell is wrong with Fox News? Don't you like hearing stories that would never be covered by the "progressive" (and I use that term loosely) media outlets? Think the ACORN story would have even been covered if not for Fox News?

Back to topic...I had a boat docked on the river for over 5 years and inside the locks on the 3 rivers, I never had great success fishing the rivers. Once outside the locks (Emsworth specifically) we killed walleye and smallies but I don't see this fishery getting any better. Maybe it's just me but when the Bassmasters was here it was somewhat embarassing...the dinks that they caught were unbelievable. Not sure what the solution is but our 3 rivers should be one of the best fisheries in the state but it's still not...20 some years after the mills have stopped dumping into them.

I'm not sure if anyone here sat in on the discussion at the Monroeville sportsmans show recently that was lead by a gentlemen who used to wish on the walleye tour.  He had great information about fishing the 3 rivers and even considered it his favorite spot to walleye fish because of how much it's underfished.  People in the crowd asked questions and he answered every single one even including his favorites spots and baits.  But what he did say is that the majority of fisherman (pro's included) have no idea how to fish our 3 rivers.
 
To put this in perspective he said that he fished with Mike Iaconelli and took him to spots and showed him how to fish.  They each had their limit in an hour and a half.  Two weeks later was when Mike was doing his "City Limits" fishing show here in Pittsburgh and this gentlemen offered to be his guide.  Mike ended up going with another guide (just 2 weeks later) and didn't get his limit despite fishing a whole day.  This gentlemen even mentioned that they were in one of the exact spots that they fished but if Mike Ike had listened to him the first time around he would have known that wasn't a good day to fish there based on the current.
 
I wish I knew the gentlemens name because he was very informative and somehow very modest about his fishing abilities.  Bottom line is the 3 rivers are probably a great place to fish but most of us don't know how to fish them properly.

I would say that is the fellow from Dutch Fork Custom Lures, Keith Eshbaugh...

www.custompaintalure.com

heck of a nice guy and a great fisherman, we've fished many times with him on Kinzua and Erie

FLII, Does he guide?

The tourny was held at a really rough time to fish the 3 rivers (late summer).  They caught plenty of fish, just lots of dinks and short fish.
 
I don't really fish for bass, but last year while jigging for eyes we hit schools of smallies a couple times.  It was literally a fish every other cast with most of the fish in the 13-15" range and even a few up towards 20" and ~3.5-4#.  Granted this was in May, but years of fishing the three rivers have taught me that there are plentiful numbers of big bass around.

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ORIGINAL: Porktown

ORIGINAL: Porktown

Sports reporting is horrible, and anything politics is like Fox News in print.

Nothing wrong with that, nothing at all!

The Fox News part is fine to a point, knowing the PG is the opposite, and just about every news outlet has some sort of lean. It would be nice having an outlet that reported both sides and not writing in a way that portrays opinions as facts.

The sports coverage still sucks.

post edited by Porktown - 2011/04/08 13:39:04