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VENANGO COUNTY

Sugar Creek
Denny Beggs (Franklin); filed 4/16: Attached are photos
of my son Devin and I with trout caught and released on

Sugar Creek. We fished two hours on Sunday and caught
& released 27 rainbows, 1 brown. Devin was the leader
with 15 trout. Lots of fun! We were drifting salmon eggs.
(See photos)

Angler Al’s Diary
- April 15: From my perspective, the annual trout season opener in our region was the best
turn out in many years. The exceptionally nice weather may have been the leading factor,

but perhaps the interest in fishing has grown. Thanks Darl, because of what you have cre-
ated with the Fishing Thanks to the Report and other avenues,
you’re “watering” the seeds to further our sport. And that’s an
“angle” I’m happy to be part of. I took two friends to Sugar Creek.
We went to the last bridge the commission stocked. A yellow
Rooster Tail spinner, wax worms tipped with corn colored salmon
eggs or red fireball eggs, nightcrawlers and small fathead minnows

all worked to entice fish. Overall though, the bite wasn’t all that
great. (See photos on Trout Page)
- April 23: I slipped down during the last hour of evening daylight.
This place is one my favorite spots on Sugar Creek. I initially started
using corn colored salmon eggs tipped with wax worm which pro-
duced several stocked rainbow trout. Closer to dark I switched to a
large creek bait minnow. Something tapped it twice, so I decided to
downsize to a nightcrawler. Bam! A 22 inch brown trout slammed

it. Caught and released. (see photo) Al’s 22 inch Sugar Brown

Allegheny River
Pete Cartwright @ Smallies on the Yough Guide Service; filed 4/22: Cold and high water this
weekend (4/21 & 4/22) on the Allegheny had smallies sluggish but as the day went on they
turned on and my clients got some nice fish including both of them landing their PB – one 19

incher and one 20 incher. We used 412ubes from 412 Bait Company and Gamma Line to land
all our fish. (See photos on River Overflow next page)

Jeff Knapp @ Keystone Connection Guide Service; filed 4/22: Tremendous action on the Alle-
gheny though the weekend of April 14 and 15. Lots of brown bass, including some big brown
bass to 19 inches. Plus a few walleyes, northerns and small muskies, too. Mostly on Z-Man TRD
TubeZ, some on Rapala Husky Jerks and RipStop. Heavy rains washed out the river for few days.
Looks like it will be fine by April 25. (See photos on River Overflow next page)