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2014/05/25 17:37:14 (permalink)

Good to know bottom feeders aren't the only big fish in city rivers...

Went down to the park today, not expecting much with all the boating going on, river muddy as all hell. Second cast with my Yum tube got a nibble. Hooked up and rod goes rainbow. I figured it was another bottom feeder because Wednesday a ~8lb. sheephead ate my tube. But this guy wasn't fightin like a bottom feeder, he wasn't fightin like a smallie either. I thought...could it be??! Haven't caught one all year. He kept stayin on the bottom, figured maybe still it was just an aggressive cat. Fought him for a bit but just tryin to get him up to the surface to see....and finally I saw color. Hello wally! Thankfully used my heavy rod with 12lb. mono because some cheapo stren 8lb. fluoro I thru on my other rod has been snappin off like no other; likely would have lost him had I used that rod. Prior to this biggest non-bottom feeder fish I've caught in a city river was a 17" smallie. This guy was pushin 24". Totally made my day, but now there's going to be even more people in my spot as there were witnesses .
 
 

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    Fisherlady2
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    Re: Good to know bottom feeders aren't the only big fish in city rivers... 2014/05/25 22:18:02 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby skeelol 2014/05/26 04:11:59
    Great river catch!! Congrats!  Glad you got out today to enjoy some water therapy!
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    Re: Good to know bottom feeders aren't the only big fish in city rivers... 2014/05/26 17:05:52 (permalink)
    Nice fish for sure...but...as for the bottom feeder myths locally...the state did a study several years ago with results showing twice as much PCBs and other bad stuff in the Walleye specimens than in the catfish caught in the Ohio and Allegheny Rivers....
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    Re: Good to know bottom feeders aren't the only big fish in city rivers... 2014/05/27 09:03:20 (permalink)
    That's impressive, had no idea walleyes were lurking around that "spot" .... cool stuff skeelol

    Got Walleye???
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    Re: Good to know bottom feeders aren't the only big fish in city rivers... 2014/05/27 09:55:31 (permalink)
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    Nice fish for sure...but...as for the bottom feeder myths locally...the state did a study several years ago with results showing twice as much PCBs and other bad stuff in the Walleye specimens than in the catfish caught in the Ohio and Allegheny Rivers....




    Link to study please.  I'd be interested in reading it.
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    Re: Good to know bottom feeders aren't the only big fish in city rivers... 2014/05/27 10:19:50 (permalink)
    skeelol
    Totally made my day, but now there's going to be even more people in my spot as there were witnesses .


    It's not too late to do a quick edit to your photo & erase the stuff in the background if you are worried about spot burning yourself...  That said, I've fished that exact spot many times when it was in walking/biking distance to my old house, and never seen as nice of a fish caught.  Hopefully noone is mistaking it for a walleye hotspot from one report.
     
    Very nice fish regardless of where caught.  Might be the nicest fish ever caught from that spot...  Too bad the PFBC stopped the wiper stocking in the rivers, they'd show up there every so often too, I never saw any over 18" in that general vacinity.
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    Re: Good to know bottom feeders aren't the only big fish in city rivers... 2014/05/27 15:06:31 (permalink)
    My son and I were catching WALLEYE and Saugeye in "hubcap creek", known on the PFBC Stock list as Pike Run.  Grew up in that area, and 50 years worth, have never caught an Eye that far up hubcap creek.  Guess they look to spawn ? 
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    Re: Good to know bottom feeders aren't the only big fish in city rivers... 2014/05/28 02:17:46 (permalink)
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    It's not too late to do a quick edit to your photo & erase the stuff in the background if you are worried about spot burning yourself...  That said, I've fished that exact spot many times when it was in walking/biking distance to my old house, and never seen as nice of a fish caught.  Hopefully noone is mistaking it for a walleye hotspot from one report.
     




    Tbh I can't say I'm that worried about it, let it be known that this is anything but a walleye hotspot as this is the only eye I've pulled out of there in the past 2 years of fishing there, and I can't say I've seen anyone else pull one out either. Furthermore I really can't say it's my own personal spot or anything special as it's right there when you enter the park. Traffic has been picking up a bit lately with the nice weather but it's really not an ideal spot to fish because all boat/ barge wakes muddying up the water 
    post edited by skeelol - 2014/05/28 04:18:19

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    Re: Good to know bottom feeders aren't the only big fish in city rivers... 2014/05/29 08:29:52 (permalink)
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    Nice fish for sure...but...as for the bottom feeder myths locally...the state did a study several years ago with results showing twice as much PCBs and other bad stuff in the Walleye specimens than in the catfish caught in the Ohio and Allegheny Rivers....




    Link to study please.  I'd be interested in reading it.


    Been searching everywhere for it....I saw it several years ago and remembered it clearly....At the time it was the first article on the list when I Googled the topic...will keep searching...
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