Lehigh River

Two beautiful kastmaster brownies out of the Pohopoco. With how much ice there is up here I was lucky enough to even find any open water to cast in.

OLD CATCH #3: About a month ago I took a trip to Beltzville Lake and was fortunate enough to be able to use my kayak. I started by kayaking up a long cove in hopes of finding some Smallmouth, however, I wasn’t able to hook into any. At the very end of the cove I managed to find a few pockets in the creek that held some sunfish and rock bass, which I couldn’t keep off my hook. After making my way back out into the main section of the lake, I decided to target some catfish, so I threw a live bluegill on the bottom, but unfortunately after about an hour and a half of no bites, I called it quits. While kayaking back I found a dead fish floating on the water, which turned out to be a striped bass that seemed to have just recently turned belly up. After the slow day on the kayak, I ventured down to the creek that flowed out of Beltzville Lake and fished below a small spillway for some trout. There I was able to land a nice brown and a rainbow. To better my chances of catching a fish, I climbed onto the top of the dam and tried sight casting some trout. I pretty quickly had a bite from a huge rainbow that easily could have been over 20 inches, but unfortunately I missed the hookset. I also stupidly sat down on a lure someone had snagged on top of the dam and got hooked past the barb. It took a while to rip it out but I was pretty much stuck to the dam for a solid five minutes. At least it was a nice Rapala that I got to keep lol.

Brown trought on a dry dropper rig. Para Adams and a nymph i found in a bush.

Spent some time this morning exploring Pohopoco Creek below the Beltzville Dam (app sees it as the Lehigh). Very pleasant piece of tailwater but flows were apparently a little low this morning. I managed two nice browns nymphing some deeper slots. #Catch23

Caught a fallfish on a rusty spinner. Hooked a red breast sunfish as well and wrapped around my leg and hooked my shoe. Beautiful to be outside.

San juan worm on a dropper rig. Saw this floating in the water.

Black wooly bugger