Headed back out on Tuesday the 5th with my brother-inlaw around 4pm.  We were at the place we call hot waters, I was fishing for walleye my brother-inlaw was fishing for catfish.  I fished for walleye for about an hour and a half and caught nothing, I was using plastic jigs.  I went and joined Harry at our favorite spot for catfish.  He already caught 3 and 1 of a nice size.  The bait the catfish was enjoying was cut bait, let me tell you the fish just slammed the bait hard.  We had a very good night catching a lot of cats and bring home 6 of good size to eat.  Harry and I finally had a good night of fishing and we really enjoyed it.

Where should I start, a few days ago we had a lot of rain over 2 inches, which is a lot at one time for this area.  Since the rivers were over flowing my Brother-inlaw and I decided to go to this on fishing spot which has a river flowing into the Susquehanna River.  That would make a great back wash and most of the time the walleye would be hanging in the back wash waiting for the bait fish.  When we arrived at the fishing spot we could hear the river roaring into the Susquehanna, we were excited.  When we checked the spot, the ice was all piled up on the bank and there was no way for us to fish.  So since we were out we went to check on other spots but no luck.

 

On Sunday the 3rd my Brother-inlaw went to this place we call the hot waters.  Which means there is a company that pumps hot water and the fish move up into this area for feed.  He did very well catching catfish on cut bait.  So, today the 4th we got up at 6am, we got there about 7am and started fishing.  The fishing was very slow Harry caught a real nice catfish I caught a sucker.  Since the fishing was slow we moved down the river where walleye were known to be caught.  There was a few fishermen and they were not catching anything.  I figured what the heck, I put on a plastic jig and actually caught one walleye which was 6 inches long.  That was all, I was glad to catch one.  This has been a rough winter for walleye fishermen.  I sure hope the spring will be better.