From West to East...

With a slight heat wave in the middle of winter the rivers have started to ramp up with good numbers of fish.  Recently I fished the west side with the OSD crew and we managed to elude the crowds and put a few fresh fish in the net.  It's good to get out with your buddies, most anglers speak of solitude, and trust me I know all about fishing by yourself and it's all good, but there is definitely something to be said about being on the river with your buddies.  It is a tough thing to do sometimes considering most of us work regular jobs with the regular 9-5 hours, which makes it tough to hook up, but when you get the chance take it and enjoy the experience together.

Colored up Bucker

Boom!!

O starting off the OSD outing!

The day ended around dark and with a good amount of hook ups and laughs the day was a successful trip!!

The next day me and another buddy Ohio Fish (Tim) hit the west side again with hopes of having the same success as O and I had the day previous, needless to say that sure as hell wasn't the case.  We fished all day and managed 0 fish, we made the tough call of traveling back to the east side around 3 with hopes of putting a few fish on the bank and missing rush hour traffic, we managed to do both!!

3rd drift Tim's hooked up

This dude is a machine!!

Swinging doesn't always produce the most fish but they sure are fun!!

Check the tail, awesome!!

Blood Clot?

Couldn't believe the color!!

We ended up being the last 2 on the river this night, but goes to show that if your willing to move around and put some time in you can succeed at catching these fish!!

The next day me and Tim decided to hit the water again and to be honest I wasn't feeling my enthusiastic self about fishing after spending 20 hours or so the previous 2 days on the water.  Well to the enthusiasm was quick to return, with the air temps of 49 degrees and the water on a good drop, the fish were on the move and feeding, had constant action with good sized fresh fish.  Days like these in the winter don't normally happen so when they do you need to capitalize on them, we did!!  

 This big buck engulfed my swung bunny leech!!

 Big Fish!!

 Fishing is literally an addiction for me!

 Tim with a good 1

 Boom!

Been trying some photo editing!

Mike with success after a few straightened hooks!

This was one of those days where you have constant action and the weather was very nice to be on the water again for another 10+ hours.  With this cold front moving in the fishing may slow down, but here's to hoping the rivers don't freeze over to bad!! I need to fish more :)

The past couple weeks from East to West!!

Haven't posted in a while, but there has been some solid fishing when I have been able to venture out.  Last week me and a buddy headed east for some PA steel, it was colder than cold, chap sticking our lines and walking to find active fish was the theme of the day.  The only problem with that was when its 10 degrees outside very few fish are active at all.  On the plus side even fewer fisherman are active.  We managed 4 fish total on this day, conditions were tough to say the least but sometimes you just hafta fish you know!!

B with a colored up hen!!

My only fish that day

A few days later all the OH tribs were pretty much back to normal fishing flows, so me and a buddy headed west, it was my friends first time to this particular river.  I rarely fish this river considering the traffic and lack of knowledge of the river after Hurricane Sandy.  We took a shot and fished a couple "winter holding" areas and were lucky enough to land a few and lose a few!

My little shark!!

Jeff's 1st west side fish!! Not to shabby!

To conclude my last couple weeks of steelheading I headed out yesterday with a few of my buddies that fish with the pin, so I wasn't expecting to get all the action this outing.  With this warm up we figured we could find a few actively feeding fish.  Well when we arrived at the river I was shocked to see so much slush considering the last couple nights hadn't been nearly as cold, well we decided to beat feet to some areas of the river that narrow with hopes of the slush being burned off.  Well our plan worked and within the 1st few minutes we had our first fish of the day!

1st Pig I mean fish of the day!!

2nd Piggy!

My friend Tim seems to have a knack for catching BIG fish!  I was lucky enough to steal some of his action and land the last fish of the day.  It was not nearly the size of Tim's fish, but did rip off 30 feet of line 3 times, always thankful for the opportunity to catch these awesome fish!!

Love that black n white

In living color

Close up!!