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day for largemouth bass in 6 feet of water near the Marina on Wilhelm, he caught a
chunk 6 pound bass. It reacted to his presentation of a Firetiger square-bill crankbait. He
also boated numerous smaller largemouths while flipping a shad-colored jig with trailer.
Ail fish were released to do battle another day! (See photo)

Shenango River Lake
Drew @ 5 Points Country Store; filed 10-10: Customers are reporting that crappie fishing
is picking up using minnows as bait. We continue to carry live bait through the fall and
into the winter. Be sure to stop by.

Rick Como (Sharpsville); filed 10-10: The
cooling of the water seems to have trig-
gered more hybrid stripers to bite. They
have moved shallower, and I am catching
them on both live shad and on crankbaits.
The best time of day is later in the after-
noon, when they sometimes come up and
bust bait on the surface. Windy days are
not good. The other day my wife and I
caught three stripers and lost three – typi- Como says “Know the difference between species”
cal. Some schools of large white bass have
apparently moved further up the lake to around the Golden Run area. Schools of small
white bass are in the Celery Farm area. Both white bass and hybrid stripers are very good
to eat if you first remove all the dark red sections of the fillets.

Ken Smith (Sharon); filed 10-10: On October 3, 4 and 6, I fished Shenango Lake for crap-
pies, catching over 100 with many over 10 inches. The fish came from around 13 feet of
water near the shoreline. The top baits were Bobby Garland Baby Shads and Garland
Itty Bit Swimmers.

Kevin Austin (Farrell); filed 9-28: Mike Davis caught a 40 pound flat-
head catfish form Shenango Lake on September 26. He was fishing
under the Route 18 Bridge at Clark. He was using a yellow and green
jig, casting it out about 10 or 15 feet from shore when he hooked the
monster. It took 20 to 30 minutes to bring it in to the rocky shoreline.
He did not have a net, but he received help from a friend to land it.
We weighed the fish on my digital scales. (See photo at left)