Fished Kittanning this morning, the ramp and dock are pretty janky.  Caught 2 walleye, several smallmouth, and a ton white perch. I got off the water before the rain came down but the boat got soaked during the drive home. 

Fished the Templeton area this morning, that stretch of the river is beautiful. Nothing was biting at the dam, tried trolling the deeper areas but no action. Managed to catch one walleye jigging near the bridge near the mouth of Mahoning Creek. 

Fished Kittanning yesterday morning, I did pretty well for early September. 7 Walleye(four were legal length), and three smallmouth all before 9:30.  

Nice. I’d be happy with a day like that in prime fall/spring season!

CTKsnowman
Fished the Templeton area this morning, that stretch of the river is beautiful. Nothing was biting at the dam, tried trolling the deeper areas but no action. Managed to catch one walleye jigging near the bridge near the mouth of Mahoning Creek. 

Honestly never see much action near there. Always end up with carp/cat/buffalo type deals. 
It is beautiful though

Fished Tarentum this morning, caught 5 smallmouth, 2 walleyes, and a catfish. Water temp was 70 degrees.   

Got caught in that crazy storm yesterday while fishing on tionesta creek along jug handle road. I had walked the creek from Ross run, so I was probably about a mile upstream from where I parked, and I had to haul @ss back to the car. Then the drive along Nebraska road from German hill to rt 36 was even scarier than the walk to the car.

I had probably the hottest bite I’ve had all year for about a 1/2 hr before that storm blew in. Getting bit every cast, back to back to back fish, get bit and miss one then immediately get bit again… And most were pretty good size fish for the creek too. I don’t know if they were just stacked up in the pool I found or if it was the change in weather, or maybe both? It was pretty hard pulling myself off the water.

I have had that happen before a few times. See the storm getting closer and the fish go nuts. Makes it impossible for us addicts to do the right thing and go to safety. Come to think of it, I usually overextend for storms, even if they aren’t biting. Just assuming that bite will happen and don’t want to miss it…

Yea I’ve experienced that hot bite on stormy days before as well. I’m pretty glad I bailed yesterday when I did tho.

On the drive up jug handle road out of the creek valley, it was dead calm and the sky was just flickering constantly like a dying fluorescent light bulb. I don’t think I’ve ever seen lightning like that before.

When I got to the top of the hill and picked up a data signal my phone immediately blew up with a tornado warning, then the wind picks up all of a sudden and trees are bent over and I’m driving through debris flying everywhere.

By the time I got to rt 36 I was out of the storm but I could see a huge dark black wall of a cloud behind me.

It was wild. I’ve been caught outside in thunderstorms before, but nothing like this.

Launched the boat at Brady’s Bend. First time on this stretch of river. I know lock 9 is a couple miles downriver so I wanted to see how far I could motor upstream with a prop.

I went out yesterday and struck out. Got one dink. Decided to go for round 2 today.

First 4 hours on the water I got one 18” bass. Decent fish. Nothing to brag about tho. I was definitely struggling. I spend a lot of time on the river on a kayak but fishing it by boat is different, and the floating eel grass is really really bad right now.

Around 4pm I guess I found a school because for the next 2 1/2 hrs it was non stop action. Boated around 15 or so, all between 16” - 18.5”.

I went through a whole pack of flukes so I switched to senkos and they just kept hitting them too. I think they would have hit anything I threw in the water they were so aggressive.

I actually lost count of how many 18s I landed, at one point I think I caught 6 in a row. They were still splashing and chasing bait on the surface when I had to head back to the launch because it was getting dark.

I’ve never had a group of big fish keep coming and coming like that. I stayed anchored up in like 2 ft of water a couple feet from shore the whole time and barely moved the boat.

I’ve always struggled to catch fish in October when they transition out of those summer patterns. Now I understand what people mean when talk about that “fall bite”.

This was probably my last trip out until the spring. Helluva way to end the season.