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Gene Winger (Oil City); filed 4/4: “After the ice moved out, fishing was a little slow. But
over the past couple weeks the bite has improved dramatically. The challenge has been
fighting the high winds and changing water temperatures. When the water temperature
was hanging around 40 degrees, the smallmouths were deep and taking small finesse
baits. Now that the water temperatures are hitting 50 degrees, the bass have spread out
into faster moving water and smaller back eddies. The best baits have been Winco’s CW
Smallies Delight Jigs and Winco’s Tastee Tube Supreme and Baby Tastee Tube. On our
best day, we caught a boat load of bass, most over 15 inches with the largest weighing
4.5 lbs. and measuring 21.5 inches.” See photos in Livewell

Steve Udick (Oil City); filed 4/3: “On Friday April 1, I got out late afternoon to fish the
Sage Run pool. Wind was whipping up river. I only managed to land two
smallies, one on a tube and one on a Firetiger Floating Rapala. On Sat-
urday, I attempted to fish with Seth Harrelson in the Siverly Eddy. Winds
were just too strong. We each missed fish on tubes. I managed to get
this 18 incher in the pic on a Firetiger Shad Rap SR07. It was the only
catch of the day. Firetiger has been the best color for all my fishing bud-
dies this winter/spring.”

Pete Cartwright @ Smallies on the Yough

- 3/26: “The Allegheny was low and clear at 48 degrees. Smallies were hitting close

to the bank. We used 412ubes and skirted jigs with Small Craw Trailer from 412

Bait Company. The bite was slow at first but as the sun heated up the river, the

bass began to hit hard. We moved into some current and caught some nice fish

swimming the jig just off the bottom. The fish were very healthy, and biggest was

20 inches.”

- 3/30: “The Allegheny was stained and up a bit, but temp

dropped to 46 degree. I was guiding Steelers OT Alejandro Vil-

lanueva for the day. The bite had slowed down from the last

time due to the rain staining the water. We managed to catch

fish on and off using 412ubes with a dead stick presentation. It

was his first time on the Allegheny River and he was happy with

fish caught, landing about 25 with the biggest one 18 inches. GO Alejandro’s 18 “ SM

STEELERS!”

- 4/1: We fished the evening on the Allegheny; water was dirty and it rained off and

on. We caught some fairly aggressive fish not far off the bank using a swim jig and

412 Bait Co. Small Jaw Craw. The thumping action of the lure help produced two

20-inch smallmouth and a few smaller ones.”