Thank goodness Pymy went to 20 hp some years back. Being such flat land in the area and a large shallow lake it can get a little rough quick. Hated being on a pontoon with a 9.9 and see a storm approaching.
 
 Got the branch on the right mostly cut up last week. Watched it fall 3 weeks ago but had to leave the next day. Pretty cool watching the storms roll in from a distance up that way.

 Well when I started cutting it up on Thursday the old lady got attacked by Bald Faced Hornets that had a nest in the branches . Her hand got pretty swollen. There are 3 more parts of it around the same size that are on their last leg/limb. One might wipe out 4 of my son's boats if he don't move them soon.
 
 The wife was picking up Walnuts from this tree in the front yard over 80 yards away. Dang power company replaced wires on the transformer in the yard on Saturday. Came up Weds. and the transformer was blown. Had to clean out the fridge/freezer. 
 
  Having the Amish cut everything over 40" in dia. Not as young as my brain thinks.
 
 Lost the last of the fish from this spring so gives me a incentive to get back to the lake.

 
 
 
 

hopefully it didn't turnover yet....tight lines and limits...

rippinlip
Fished Moraine 2 days ago. Ded Cee 

Good to see a report, but sums up Artie summer fishing. That lake seems to be that way for me from when it starts to get hot out until it cools down. I have done okay in the past, REALLY early morning or evenings into dusk, but no consistent pattern to it. Not worth getting up at 3AM, to hit a 2 hour window of possibly catching a fish or two. I pretty much refuse to sweat my rearend off midday summer fishing there. I do know where to find some small crappie with maybe 1-2 keepers mixed in. Things should pick up in the next month.

Summer has officially changed to smallmouth season for me. Not that I crush them, but at least feel a pull every 30 minutes or so. I made it out a few days ago on the Yough. Fished from my kayak as the family floated in tubes. Got 4 smallies and a bonus rainbow. Had another really nice fish on where I caught the rainbow. I saw a steelhead sized palomino in the same area too. But was down stream about 30 yards from where I had the one on, so definitely not the same fish.

Ya we didn't 🤣. Got to fish about an hour n half. Same area West of Trout, same depth ( out to 25FOW). We got 3 keepers and had tons of action in that short amount of time. We had surface temp of 73°. I'll be back for vengeance 😉.

Try wading in the heat. It makes 85 and humid feel comfortable. Stick with sections of a river/creek that aren’t super deep, unless pools that have edges that you can wade through.

I fished this way all of the time years back and did well. Then I bought a kayak and only wanted to use it. Then a boat and only wanted to use it. 15 years of basically “forcing” fish from a boat in the summer and sweating my rear off in the process. With extremely inconsistent catches.

A couple years back a buddy of mine invited me to wade with him. The catching was much more consistent and like mentioned about the heat. When wading, it is about an hour round trip, including packing and unpacking the car and on the water. I don’t think twice about going out if I have a 3 hour window. With my boat, I need a full day or 6 hour window minimum. I can’t find 6 hour windows in Aug-Sept for work anyway, with most weekends catching up on house/yard work. I have a hard time finding 3 hour windows. For years, I’d put in 12 hour days during the week to carve out a weekend day that I could get the boat out. Then sweat my rear off and have a bluegill or small crappie keep me from a skunking…. Trips like those had me wondering why I even went fishing.

It all changes in Oct-Dec though. Not that Dec is usually very good, but if stays warm, I will be out there trying. Then again from Mar-Jun. Almost all boat fishing in those seasons for me.

 I'd like to get the Radisson square stern out for Sept -- Nov. but to cheap to buy a launch permit for only 3 months. I know I would end up getting busted without one even though I haven't encountered a Fish Fuzz or Ranger in years. Maybe my son will take me out. I'd catch way more wading anyways so no big deal on the canoe or boat.

Porktown

rippinlip
Fished Moraine 2 days ago. Ded Cee 

Good to see a report, but sums up Artie summer fishing. That lake seems to be that way for me from when it starts to get hot out until it cools down. I have done okay in the past, REALLY early morning or evenings into dusk, but no consistent pattern to it. Not worth getting up at 3AM, to hit a 2 hour window of possibly catching a fish or two. I pretty much refuse to sweat my rearend off midday summer fishing there. I do know where to find some small crappie with maybe 1-2 keepers mixed in. Things should pick up in the next month.
Yea the Dog Days of Summer for sure. I noticed that the buoys were moved WAY into the Conservation Area or the storm blew them way in there. The Crappies were gorging on little 2 to 3 in skinny monnows. Probably this years spawning resukts.
Summer has officially changed to smallmouth season for me. Not that I crush them, but at least feel a pull every 30 minutes or so. I made it out a few days ago on the Yough. Fished from my kayak as the family floated in tubes. Got 4 smallies and a bonus rainbow. Had another really nice fish on where I caught the rainbow. I saw a steelhead sized palomino in the same area too. But was down stream about 30 yards from where I had the one on, so definitely not the same fish.

rippinlip

crappiefisher
 I'd like to get the Radisson square stern out for Sept -- Nov. but to cheap to buy a launch permit for only 3 months. I know I would end up getting busted without one even though I haven't encountered a Fish Fuzz or Ranger in years. Maybe my son will take me out. I'd catch way more wading anyways so no big deal on the canoe or boat.

Holler at me I'll take you out in the toon.

 
 Any time I fish with somebody from this forum we get skunked unless it was Dreamcatcher  

Speaking of Pork I'd like to take a road trip to Mchigan to see him.

MyWar

Porktown
Try wading in the heat. It makes 85 and humid feel comfortable. Stick with sections of a river/creek that aren’t super deep, unless pools that have edges that you can wade through.

This 100%

Wet wading in the summertime is glorious. Smallmouth bite stays hot all through July and August and September. Can’t beat it.

I got the boat running in the river too. I’ve taken it up to Fishermans cove and Parker a couple times now. But even with the boat Im mainly just looking for sections to hop out and pick it apart while wading. I kind of do the same thing when I am in the kayak too.

Me and the girlfriend took the boat up to kinzua on Sunday and camped at Morrison. First time I’ve been to that part of the lake. We had the lake to ourselves pretty much from Sunday evening until we got off the water at noon today (Tuesday).

I only got one fish but it was a new PB pike. He was about 30”, so not a giant but pretty big for me. I’ve only ever caught baby pike up there. Pretty great trip except the deer flies were RELENTLESS.

Yeah. I've always done well wet wading. 
My issue is a 40lb, curly haired lunatic who would rather swim than fish. Someday!

Nice Pike. Still have never caught on, caught almost everything else the Commonwealth has to offer. Pike still elude me. I hear they're in Arthur, maybe someday I'll find a dead one there and take a pic like I caught it. (Dead Sea joke there) 

I've considered it in the future. Interesting thoughts. I assume you speak from experience. Shame people ruin things like this, but it was like that even when I was a kid. 
I plan to hopefully be able to continue to support the little one the best I can, and enjoy the ages as they come.

I hit the stretch between perryopolis and van meter on Friday after work. I didn’t do all that well. Pretty slow until right around dusk then I got a couple in the last hour or so on the water. Nothing of any size tho.

I haven’t fished the area around Smithton yet this year. I probably should try it again. But the yough has been very hit or miss for me so far this season. I’ve definitely fished it under some less than ideal conditions, like high muddy water… and Friday was like a high pressure, super clear sky kinda day. I dont think I’ve had a really good day on the yough since June.

The Allegheny has been consistently good tho. I’m gonna try to get out tomorrow for a bit, and then I’ll be up at my buddy’s cabin around tionesta next weekend.