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Fishing report 10-5-14

By Steve Ferris sferris@heraldstandard.Com 3 min read

Last week’s trout stocking by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission drew anglers to streams and lakes in the area.

“They put a nice bunch of fish in. They were nice and chunky nice sized,” Al Packan of Cap’n Al and Sons at Dunlap Creek Lake in Menallen Township. “There’s plenty of fish in there.”

A lot of anglers were catching trout on Thursday, the day the lake was stock, but only a few people were fishing on Friday, Packan said.

He said most were casting spinner baits such as Joe’s Flies and a few were jigging with trout worms.

“Spin fishing seems to work well after a stocking,” Packan said. “They weren’t using a whole lot of live bait. They were mostly using lures.”

Meadow Run in Ohiopyle was stocked on Thursday and some anglers went there on Friday, but Scott Gates of S&S Bait and Tackle in Wharton Township said he hadn’t heard if the fish were biting.

The Youghiogheny River hasn’t been stocked since Aug. 28, but anglers are still catching trout there.

“The river is doing well. Trout fishing is still good,” Gates said.

Bait fishermen are using night crawlers and eggs, fly fishers are using woolly buggers and people using small casting spoons colored in chrome and green and chrome and blue are catching trout in the river, he said.

Some anglers went to High Point Lake, which hasn’t been stocked, in Somerset County on Friday, but Gates said he hasn’t heard any reports from them.

Walleye are biting in deep water in Deep Creek Lake in Maryland, he said.

“Deep Creek is still fishing well. They’re catching a lot of walleye there. The fish are deep in a fall pattern and they’re likely to remain that way until spring,” Gates said.

He said reports from Lake Erie indicate that steelhead are stacking in the mouths of the tributary streams, but water was too low for them to enter the streams last week.

Smallmouth bass are biting in the lower end of the Casselman River, said Lynn Murral of Woodlands World in Uniontown.

“People are catching a good many smallmouth there,” Murral said.

Spin fishermen have been using jigs and twister tails, fly fishermen are using Clouser minnows, large woolly buggers and sculpin streamer patterns, he said.

The Yough River in the trophy trout/Ramcat Hollow area is giving up some pretty nice sized brown trout, but not in abundance. Nice size, bit not a lot. Typical middle Yough fishing this time of year,” Murral said.

He said any hole or likely holding area is worth exploring with a large streamer.

Anglers have begun buying gear for steelhead fishing around Lake Erie, but only a few fish have entered the low, clear water of the tributaries, Murral said.

Fishermen willing to travel to target salmon and brown trout should consider the Lake Ontario tributaries in western New York, he said. Runs of both fish are “respectable,” he said.

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