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Allegheny River
Steve Udick (Oil City); filed 9-25: We had a good time fishing Jitterbugs on
the river during the day this past week. Jim Allen’s biggest bass came on a
black Jitterbug. I landed a lamprey attached to a 19 inch smallie while fishing
near Rockmere. I had a little streak of four bass of 18 inches or longer in a
row. But when we went out on my birthday on 9-20, all we caught were 10

to 12 inchers. That’s fishing!

Gene Winger (Oil City); filed 9-25: I’ve been on the river almost every day dur-

ing the past two weeks, excluding last weekend’s dirty water event. The small-
mouth bite is really heating up – catching a lot of average size bass and few
over 16 inches. Floating weeds are a problem so I’ve pretty much stuck to
bottom crawling baits using smaller Winco Tubes and drop-shot rigged
swimbaits. Fishing 4 to 6 feet of water in the tail section of pools, we hit pock-
ets where larger bass were stacked up…game over!
This past Saturday, I had the privilege of taking my three-year old grandson out
for his first ever fishing trip. He’s still talking about the “monster fishes” he

helped his Dad Jeremy and I catch. I think we have a future river rat in the making! (See Cover
photo, photo here and in Livewell)

Pete @ Smalliesontheyough.com; filed 9-23: Foggy start but fish were
eating as fog burned off. But with blazing sun, the bite stopped. My clients
were first time wade fishermen as well as first time river fishermen. They

did great and caught some fish in tough conditions. River was loaded with
floating weeds, and we had to clean off lure on every cast.

Angler Al (Franklin) filed 9-18: One evening 9-year old Mikey Galkowski and I
decided to go catfishing. When we arrived at Oil City Marina, we discovered
how tough the conditions could be. The river was up a few feet, chocolate
stained and loaded with floating weeds. We headed out anyway. Just prior to

dark and ready to quit, we had a run on one rod…and Mikey won the battle!
See photo.