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VENANGO COUNTY

Angler Al’s Venango Journal…
- 7-14: My brother and I took my friend’s Kelli’s son, Mikey Galkowski, to
Justus Lake. With largemouth bass plentiful, it’s a great compound for
him to practice his fishing skills. The weedline around the back of the
swimming zone is one of the better areas. Nightcrawlers and live shiners

slowly drifted or trolled is our usual technique, but Steve dropped-shot
a black & purple worm to catch some bass, too. (See photo)
- 7-19: Off to the Allegheny River for cats. Mikey’s first time on the river.
We launched from Oil City Marian ramp at 9 pm and stayed until 2 am. Justus Lake
Total was 3 channel cats, one flathead cat and a big snapping turtle.
And we missed five other runs. (See photo)

- 7-22: Sugar Creek trout fishing is still going strong. Drifting crawlers
resulted in 8 rainbows and 2 browns in an hour. As I write this re-
port, the rain is again going to foul the streams!
Kahle Lake
Bill Logan (Pleasantville); filed 7-22: I hit Kahle Lake this week, boating 9
largemouth bass on a Booyah Skirted Jig I won on the Fishing Report.

Allegheny River Mikey on the Allegheny

Gene Winger (Oil City); filed 7-24: I’ve been on the river several times
over the past two weeks. Fishing has been slow with the exception of some really good late
evening topwater bites. I am picking up lots of small bass in riffles and shallow water, and few
bigger bass in deep pools using Winco 3.5” Tubes and River Darter Swim Bait. The evening bite
(45 minutes before dark) is heating up; my best evening was landing 4 nice bass and 4 walleyes
in the tail waters of larger pools, all on Winco Precision Poppers. Now that water levels have
dropped to normal summer levels, I’m expecting the action to pick up over the next week or

so.
Bill Logan; filed 7-22: I fished the river today. I took five smallmouths on a swim jig. The small-
mouth came from fast water and flats averaging 4 feet deep.

Steve Udick (Oil City); filed 7-22: There is nothing better than having kids on the boat catching
fish! I love teaching the next generation how to catch bass when they are eager to learn. The
weather finally broke, and we got our four grandkids and friends out to camp and fish for four
days. My 11-year old granddaughter, Addison Knight, lead the way by catching 14” and 15”

smallmouths. She was very happy to out-catch Papa. Drew Knight, 8 yrs. old, landed plump
bass of 11 inches and Luke Johnson, age 5, caught a 9 incher. All bass came on Mizmo 4-inch
Tubes. Weedless hooked tubes are safe for kids to throw on a boat. Jim Allen or I could not
connect with fish that Saturday – too busy helping others. However, I had a nice float on Friday,
catching two bass and two walleyes using a black Bandit 100. (See photos in Livewell Overflow)