Took my Army buddy out on Erie last weekend, put a few walleye in the boat Saturday. Sunday we only managed to catch one before we got chased off the lake by the NE wind. We were out in 65 FOW, running dipsys divers with harnesses down to about 25-35 feet in the water column. 

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I think a lot less roadkills happened, in general, in 2020, due to the pandemic and people staying put.  I know more people were out hunting but I think many less were taken out by vehicles.  That's my story and sticking to it!

Great points.  This might be a pretty dangerous year in terms of road kills and wrecks caused by deer.  Probably something to keep stored in the back of your head while driving in the next few months until hunters are able to thin the herds.
 
I was thinking about your second point of more hunting, which was definitely the case fishing, so assume hunting as well.  But it is much easier to fish than hunt.  Deer hunting isn't something that I think most can just casually pick up and have much success.  There are only so many deer in the public game lands too, which I would assume more new hunters are likely going to those public game lands.  I would imagine the new hunters of last year, likely didn't put too much of a dent in.  Many are likely done with it after spending hours in the woods with only seeing other hunters everywhere and likely having to take cover every hour or so when someone decides to shoot or 5 guys shooting at the same deer...

     This one in ditch this afternoon near camp  

Fished the Mon on my brothers pontoon on Sat. Aug.28. Caught a few bass on a bigger Hot-n-Tot. Downsized to a smaller Tot and caught a nice walleye.

Weather has not been cooperative. Tried to hit the river near whitsett on the kayaks today and we got poured on then got chased off the water by thunder and lightning. Only got 2 small bass.

I also floated cedar creek to west Newton Wednesday morning and it was a scorcher. Got a couple bass in some shady spots but there was just no escape from the sun. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky until like 2pm.

I’m also hoping September is better weather. I’m in the process of putting a casting deck, some hatches, and a floor on my 14’ tin V hull. I’ve been wanting to do something like this for years, and I finally have the right tools and some dry storage to make it work. I should be about done in another week or two and I’d like to get it in the water for some fishing in September and October, and maybe even hit one of those boat in campgrounds at Kinzua. We had a pretty good weekend camping up there last July.

I have a 9.9 prop motor for the boat. I don’t usually take it to the yough tho. I kayak or wade there. Although I also tried putting in at cedar creek once but I wasn’t really feeling it either. I really prefer fishing shallow rivers from a kayak

I usually take the boat to lakes- arthur, cross creek, wilhelm, kinzua… I haven’t taken it out much the last two summers because I’ve been way more into kayak fishing. But if I get it fixed up with the casting deck and whatnot, I’ll probably start using it more again.

I’ve actually been wanting to do this for a long time, but it was never really feasible because I stored it outside. Now that I keep it in a garage I can have a boat that’s more than just an aluminum hull and a few bench seats. I’m pretty stoked about it.

Fished below dam 3 on the Allegheny Saturday morning, caught 3 very small walleye and 1 small mouth. Called it a day at 9:30 because it was too **** hot.  

Got the bug today, took the kayak up to west Newton, put in right above the bridge and paddled up a mile or two. Got all the way to that fast, deep pool. Got 6 bass in a couple hours, nothing huge but it was a nice evening for it.

Anybody have any strategies for fishing those deeper, fast pools in small rivers like the yough? I tend to stick to shallower areas with current and lots of breaks. I usually throw weightless senkos and finesse jigs, and I do fairly well. But I know there are fish in those deeper pools and the lighter baits I like to throw don’t always get down to the bottom. I got a couple today by casting into the current, anchored right up along the bank, but I can’t help but think I’m still missing something.

Not gonna be doing much fishing for the next couple days At least not on any rivers. Looks like the heaviest rain will be to the south and east of the city.

A friend of mine was vacationing in NOLA. He flew in last Wednesday before they knew how bad it was gonna be. He almost got stranded there because he couldn’t get a flight or a rental car…. finally booked the last bus out of town to Atlanta so he could fly back to Pgh from there… sat in traffic on a packed bus for 9+ hours with no food, water or toilets… finally gets to the Atl airport which was a total zoo because of all the evacuees from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama… the flight back to Pgh was terrifying because of all the turbulence… he gets home and his car has a flat tire. pretty much the worst vacation ever.

Just read that wilmore dam is at capacity and homeowners are at risk.  scary.

I would go ahead with black or dark gray if you want to paint it. As you said, it gets hot already, though the painted surface may get as hot or slightly hotter. The upside is that if it is matte finish paint you won't have the reflective glare from it that you get from the bare aluminum. We used a roll on bed liner paint on the inside areas of a boat we redid (gray) and it worked well, especially on the floor areas we did, since it had a texture to it to reduce slipping.

No, the bed liner did fine.

In retrospect I probably should have looked at something like seadek or at least requested samples to see the color. But I think I can live with this color if I paint the rest of the hull black or dark gray.

Fisherlady- couple more questions: did you put the bed liner on a painted surface or bare aluminum? Did you brush any of it on as well as roll it? What brand did you use?

I have a vinyl floor in my boat. I would never have carpet again. Although it does get hot when that sun beats down on it. It's very easy to clean. Just pull the plug and get the power washer out. We tend to make a mess dragging those worms. Not to mention gillin em and killin em makes for quite the bloodbath somedays. Buddy has an 86 Rebel that needs a new floor. Think wer gonna do it as a winter project this year. I will have to check into SeaDek. 👍

Caught a bunch of bass and one walleye below dam 3 today.