Shenango this friday

Rapalas and mepps should produce somethin.  The fishings been kinda slow though for just about everything.  A few cats, smallies, and a white bass here and there but nothing amazing. LIke I said in the other thread the white bass and stripers aren't biting as good as they were.  Caught a handful of carp fly fishing in the shallow riffles the other day which was a blast!  Also got a leftover trout too.  Might try it out Thursday again...

So true!!  I've put a quite a bit of money into that river lol.  I know now not to use lures like $5 and up there. 

I have once, but the cats there seem to hit a lot of stuff.  I've caught them on Gulp minnows, jig + worms, live minnows and worms, and I know they are occasionally caught on different lures and flies.  I have seen liver containers left on teh shore though.  That place is a dump though as are a lot of popular spots, lots of garbage.  Very Sad. People are just flat-out dumb, trashy, or whatever you wanna call them. 

I use to use that nasty stuff not no more!

I will be down there most all day. Whereas the bridge at? Would you pass it on the way to the dam cuz i might do what you said

Ok thanks for the info

If you fish the blow down trees there full of some nice northerns thats my goal for tonight

Let me know how you make out tonight

No pike,call me a Sally but i did see couple of the biggest spiders iv ever seen.........my buddy got nailed by a brown recluse last week not a fan of the 8 legged guys

We're you fishing on the bottom with the minnows or did you have them under a float?

How deeP is it right by the dam?

I was just curious cuz I'm going to start out fishing right by the dam and wondered how deep to rig my slip float

I usually have my float maybe 3 feet above my bait, sometimes 4, but never really measured it.  I do like using slip floats there, but I find my self using the ones with the springs on them more since you can take them off without having to take apart your whole rig.  I think just freelineing it with a few split shot is more effective, but thats just my opinion.
 
There was only 1 gate open, so it's the lowest it will get.  I don't see that changing by tomorrow.  For fishing below the dam I found 2, 3, or 4 gates open to be better, but believe it or not my best ever day there(about 20-30 walleye and white bass with some other stuff mixed in) there was only 1 gate open.  For fishing downstream areas though I found just 1 and sometimes 2 gates open to be ideal.  

To fish rigt by the dam do you have to fish off the wall?

Attached is a pic of what it looks like(oh and it's not normally that crowded, in fact my brother and I had the whole place to ourselves today).  You can either fish off one of the walls or wade.  Fishing off the wall gives you access to deeper water I guess, and I seem to get most of my hybrids off of the walls, but I still catch tons of fish(of all kinds) wading.  So just whatever you prefer. The only disadvantage to fishing off the wall is if you hook into a bigger fish you have to walk it down, and there's usually other people you have to deal with, so if I see people on the walls I usually wade.  Usually there's people at the wall on the parking lot side of the river(not pictured), but I usually wade across and fish the opposite wall which usually has nobody on it.  Again though wading can be just as productive. 
 
I highly doubt I'll be able to fish tomorrow, that's why I went today, but if I do I'll stop by.  Good Luck