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VENANGO COUNTY

Sugar Creek
Janice @ Griffin’s Bait; filed 5/22: We have customers who are catching lots of big trout from
Sugar Creek, including one 25-inch Brown Trout. Over at Sugar Lake they are catching crappies
and northern pike; many anglers upset with the large number of bowfin now present in the

lake

Angler Al (Franklin); filed 5/18: I spent the morning on Sugar Creek casting a yellow Roostertail
Spinner on freshly stocked waters. Numerous 9 to 11 inch rainbow and brown trout smashed
it. I returned for the late evening hour and tried a variety of small, live baits. Mealworms, wax
worms and pieces of nightcrawlers provided a tugging for my rod.

Allegheny River
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Gene Winger (Oil City; filed 5/22: The week of May 7 was another productive week on the riv-
er, catching lots of nice heavy smallmouths – some pushing
4.5 pounds plus an 8 pound walleye taken by Denny Watson.
On Wednesday the river levels took a dive due to a drastic
change of flow at Kinzua Dam that really slowed the bite
down. Even with tough fishing, Dennis Beggs and I managed
to catch a fair number of bass on tubes and river darters, plus

Dennis’ biggest pike ever. Most of the female bass were full
of eggs and hanging close to spawning areas; we were seeing
new beds. With the heavy rains over the past weekend, river
fishing has pretty much come to a standstill…I was out Thurs-
Denny Watson’s 8-pound walleye
day and Friday and only caught a few bass throwing spinner-
baits close to shoreline. (See photos here and Livewell)

Jeff Knapp @ Keystone Connection Guide Service; filed 5/22: River smallmouth bass had been

good until the river rose five feet. Walleye bite was good, too,
with ‘eyes coming from pocket water alongside riffle areas.
Most of the bass are near spawning areas – and now waiting
for river level to drop. Soft stickbaits and Z-Man Hula Stickz
had been catching bass; walleyes were taking Rapala Husky
Jerk and BPS Speed Shad Soft Swimbait. With the high river,
I’ve been successfully guiding on area lakes for smallmouth

and largemouths. (See Photos here & Livewell)

Mike Sriprasert—Knapp photo