Walleye are out of season other than Pymy right now. In the past fished for Crappie and Pike this time of year at Arthur.
 
 I'm up Pymy now, son wanted to go out tomorrow but I told him maybe next time. We did pretty good on Crappy a few weeks back up this way. If after easier good eats can't beat Pymy or Erie right now.
 
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How far is Shenago Res for you? Tons of shore fishing this early. Jig under a float for Crappies. Trout season opens up next Saturday 🙄🤷‍♂️

It looks like shenango is about an hour and 15 min, which is about the same as wilhelm. A little too far to shoot up after work but if I felt like burning a day off it might be a good option.

I’ve never been to shenango. Don’t know a ton about it other than it got wipers (I think). Might be worth a look this spring tho. Unlimited hp right? I’m guessing it gets kinda crazy with pleasure boat traffic during the warmer months?

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Wow Trout opener already? 

Yeah, looks like the kids get a crappy opening day tomorrow, my local creek is looking pretty muddy. I'll probably get a line wet next weekend, I'm making jigs this weekend.  

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Might not be such a good opening day for those who fish trout streams. Quite a bit of rain in this area since mid morning on this day March 31.

Pine Creek is blown out in Allegheny County. Been insanely high all day today. Takes a while to come down. Maybe the fish will be spread out this year though.

The weather was pretty nice here in the city this morning. It wouldnt have been the worst morning to be on the water if you could get out of the wind and you could find water that didn’t look like chocolate milk.

The front is rolling in now. Conditions changed fast.

Yesterday was a bust on Deer Creek, today I had one on every other cast. PowerBait honey worms seemed to be their favorite. 

I went out to Blackwell, PA in the PA Grand Canyon on Pine Creek.  Water was up, but not blown out.  It looked like perfect steelhead color.  But didn't seem to translate to perfect trout fishing.  I saw a total of 2 fish caught all day on Saturday.  Got up on Sunday and was even more color to it, so decided to pack up and start the 4.5 hour drive home.  Stopped and crappie fished for about an hour.  Catching two and missing a few others.  Nice to wash the skunking off, but not enough to make it worth keeping, so I sent them back.  One had a nice scare on it's back end and ripped tail.  Guessing either musky/pike or osprey/eagle close call.  Lucky day for him to spare being eaten again.  Hopefully good karma for me the next time out.

The extended forecast is bonkers. Sunny and warm for like a week straight starting Saturday. Highs in the mid to upper 70s starting by mid week going until?. This is gonna be like June weather.

I’m gonna burn a vacation day Wednesday. Just gotta figure out where I want to go.

Might be able to get out Tuesday after work too. Or maybe Friday.

This is looking like it’s gonna be about the best stretch of spring weather you could hope for.

I hit Arthur yesterday from 2PM-6PM, so not the longest day and not the most productive either.  Crappie bite was slow where I was.  I was hoping they would have just turned on, but should have moved to other areas.  I landed 5, only one being a decent size, 4 others were borderline, not total dinks.  Had enough hits besides then to keep things somewhat entertaining.  Couldn't beat the weather.  But this time of year, I am sort of expecting to get at least a meal out of it. 
 
I spent a half hour playing around with my new side imaging too.  Another 50 hours of messing around with it and maybe I will figure out how to use it in a way that will help catch fish...  I swear, I watch videos and think that I am completely following it.  I get it running on my boat and it is like someone hits me in the head with a baseball bat, I turn into a complete idiot fumbling through the settings or can't seem to distinguish anything.  I need to move to lake front property and retire...  This whole working all week and barely getting on the water makes it hard to figure things out.  I'd probably still figure out how to not catch fish.

Thanks EMitch, makes me feel a little better.  I picked up the Garmin Echomap UHD 73sv in late November, while Christmas shopping...    The price was just too good to pass up.  $399, everywhere else was like $600-$900.  I have a Humminbird (I forget the numbers), but the model right before the Helix came out.  It looks identical to the non-touch screen Helix 7 models.  It is still in great shape, but I wanted the SI.  Thinking to put it on my trolling motor for up front.  My Garmin has the DI as well and the ability to hook up a Live Scope to it.  Which looks like cheating and also a bit too much for me to justify. Which had me figure that I could do the $400, since I am not going to do the $1500 (although I did see it on sale for $900)...  I tried to resist being Christmas time and should be buying for others, but the next week or so, I couldn't sleep thinking about it!  Some musky dude I was talking with at a launch about two years ago told me that hands down, his side imaging was his most important electronic.  So, like a good free market angler, I bit...  He is probably sponsored by Garmin/Sportsmans Warehouse and made $50 on my order.  He clearly figured out my email address somehow and was very calculated in waiting 1.5 years to send me an email advertisement that I couldn't pass up.  Well played sir!  
 
I installed it in December and got to use once late in the year, but barely got to mess around with it.  I must have hit something to mess with the settings.  It started to only show half of the side imaging, even going to that left, right, both setting.  Then I would have it set to 60' or 70', but would automatically go to how deep it is, with maybe 10' of side imagining, while still showing that it was set at 60'.  Like that is good for anything???  It took me a good 15 minutes of hitting buttons and threats to throw the unit across the lake for it to decide to listen to me!  Funny how electronics seem to understand threats.  Heck, my trolling motor mother board (which they don't make any longer) only responded to me hitting it with a hammer...  
 
I have been eyeing up an iPilot trolling motor next.  Just can't justify it until my old one decides the hammer will no longer fix it.  But they look pretty awesome for staying on structure and finding that structure again for you.  Oh yeah, forgot about that Live Scope too...  Not only can I justify the price, but if I had all of that and still couldn't catch fish, I am not sure if I could handle it mentally...

I was finally able to scroll down and stop staring at that...  I was debating to reach out to you and Jason yesterday, but didn't want to anger any wives on Easter though.  I kind of felt a little dirty just going fishing.  

I’m in the same boat with my fillet knife. I have torn my kitchen apart. The thing seems to have vanished. Good thing that I can’t catch enough to worry about. Last few times used was butchering some beef shoulder blade roasts into flat iron steaks.