Captain Ahab
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Jake, Mike and myself left early Saturday morning (and by early - I mean 3 a.m. early) to drive to a spot on the Susquehanna below Harrisburg, PA. This area is a warm water discharge from the Brunner Island Coal Power Plant. Essentially, they use river water to fire the steam turbines and then run the super heated water back into the river. As a result, you get a three mile or so stretch of river that is a wintertime tropical wonderland. The water temperatures range from over 90* at the point the power plant release the water down to 50* or so as the water hits the main river again.
We arrive at the island just before sunrise and sit huddled in the van waiting for the sky to lighten. It is super cold out, maybe 20* and we can see huge clouds of steam rising from the river. As soon as morning twilight begins we are out and into the cold air to don waders, hats, gloves and layers and layers of clothes. I get one last gulp of hot coffee and make the short trek down the river bank to the spot where we thought looked likely. Mike and I work an area near a feeder stream and Jake heads up river about 50 yards. Just after I get into the water and began casting I hear Jake yell something. Mike says - he has a fish already!
Mike and I scramble back to the bank and head to where Jake is fishing around some brush and debris - there is Jake holding a nice fat smallmouth bass and almost, just almost, smiling.
Jake has that photo on his camera so no pics.
Mike and I invade Jake's spot and Mike pulls out a nice size walleye a few casts later. Again - that picture in on Jake's camera.
I then get a real nice Smallie and it is one - we are getting hits on almost ever cast.
Mike and I team up for a few double headers of Smallies:
The bite dies of fin this area after about an hour with all of us landing some real nice, and very hard fighting fish!
We make a short move and, while the action was never again as fast and furious as it was at sunrise we start to find some larger fish:
This one ate Mikes giant rainbow bomber intended for muskie!
Look Jake can smile ( I forced him to by making stupid jokes while Mike took the photo)
Here Piggy, piggy, piggy Sooo Weee!
Jake puts on a huge x-rap and catches the fish of the day! What was this baby catfish thing?
Oh yeah - when Jake sends me his pics I have a bunch of them with my go to bait of the day - a JDBaits 4" Senko in green / black!
AWESOME JOB JDBAITS
We arrive at the island just before sunrise and sit huddled in the van waiting for the sky to lighten. It is super cold out, maybe 20* and we can see huge clouds of steam rising from the river. As soon as morning twilight begins we are out and into the cold air to don waders, hats, gloves and layers and layers of clothes. I get one last gulp of hot coffee and make the short trek down the river bank to the spot where we thought looked likely. Mike and I work an area near a feeder stream and Jake heads up river about 50 yards. Just after I get into the water and began casting I hear Jake yell something. Mike says - he has a fish already!
Mike and I scramble back to the bank and head to where Jake is fishing around some brush and debris - there is Jake holding a nice fat smallmouth bass and almost, just almost, smiling.
Jake has that photo on his camera so no pics.
Mike and I invade Jake's spot and Mike pulls out a nice size walleye a few casts later. Again - that picture in on Jake's camera.
I then get a real nice Smallie and it is one - we are getting hits on almost ever cast.
Mike and I team up for a few double headers of Smallies:
The bite dies of fin this area after about an hour with all of us landing some real nice, and very hard fighting fish!
We make a short move and, while the action was never again as fast and furious as it was at sunrise we start to find some larger fish:
This one ate Mikes giant rainbow bomber intended for muskie!
Look Jake can smile ( I forced him to by making stupid jokes while Mike took the photo)
Here Piggy, piggy, piggy Sooo Weee!
Jake puts on a huge x-rap and catches the fish of the day! What was this baby catfish thing?
Oh yeah - when Jake sends me his pics I have a bunch of them with my go to bait of the day - a JDBaits 4" Senko in green / black!
AWESOME JOB JDBAITS
