MY 2015 FISHING JOURNAL



APRIL FISHING
APRIL 29TH
Fished Toby Creek in Brockway for 2 hours and caught NOTHING. Weather was beautiful, fishing was NOT !!!

APRIL 30TH
Decided to fish closer to home between the rains. I fished for 1.5 hours and landed my first and second Brook Trout for this year. I also missed two bites. One on small piece of worm, the other on wax worms. Here's the first 2015 Trout....

MAY FISHING
MAY 3rd
I fished the Clarion River this morning for 2 hours above Portland Mills. The first 45 minutes had some action, after that NOTHING ... I did catch 3 Brook Trout, so it was good trip. Weather was nice and so was the river conditions.
MAY 6th
I fished above Portland Mills again this afternoon for a couple hours. Only landed one fish.. but it was a beauty... my 1st Smallmouth for 2015 and it was a great fish...

MAY 7th

I fished the Clarion at Belltown this morning for 2.5 hours. Landed 5 fish. 2 Brook Trout, 2 Suckers, and a baby Bullhead Catfish and several Creek Chubs ( no counting these ) ...... Wonderful morning
MAY 9th

I fished a couple spots from Hallton down to Belltown after work this evening. Only landed 4 fish total. 2 small Rock Bass and 2 nice Brook Trout. The trout were caught on wax worms, bass on worms..

MAY 11th

Fished at Portland Mills this morning, fishing was terribly slow. I ended up throwing lures and landed one trout, he hit the lure.... must have really been hungry....
MAY 24th


Spent a couple hours this evening fishing the Clarion River. The holiday "boaters" were everywhere at the launch, but I still managed some GOOD fishing. I landed 5 Brook Trout and 1 Smallmouth all on small pieces of nightcrawlers
Spotted a dozen whitetails on the way home at 7:45pm.

SUMMARY
Well 2015 will go down in my history as the absolute WORST year of fishing in my life.
In June in rained almost every single day and the days it did not rain, the creeks and the river were too muddy for fishing..
July was not much better. The beginning had rain on my days off and then the dry spell hit and the water levels got too low for fishing, spots on the Clarion were so low I could have walked across and not got my knees wet...

As mentioned a TERRIBLE year for fishing, what really upset me , is at my age I don't have a ton of fishing years left....
Hopefully next year will be my BEST ever !!!





2015 SEASON SUMMARY


FISHING TRIPS
Clarion River - 6
Toby Creek - 1
North Fork - 1


FISH CAUGHT

Trout - 15
Smallmouths - 2
Suckers - 2
Rock Bass - 2
Catfish -1