Delaware River Talk

Ill talk to you George ... I dont bite ... lol

i havent fished the Delaware ... but my dad and my uncles used to fish for eels in a town called Equinoc ... (i think) thats how its spelled ... but that was years ago

any how ... most of the fishing I do is Pond or bank fishing ... thou i got my largest channel in a fram pond on July the 9th this year .... the one in my profile pic ....

My nephew caught one on the 26th of July but his was weird looking .... it had black spots all over it ... it looked like it rolled around in ink .... they were not mud patches .... it was actuall spots .... do you know what this might have been ... is it something we should not eat ... i skinned him out and put him in the freezer .... but i have never seen anything like it in all the years I have been fishing ... the fish was caught in a farm pond ... he seemed healthy ... by this i mean he was 6.1 lbs 25 inches long .... maybe some one out there knows what these spots were ...

thanks for the help

mike

there are no feilds that have run off into the pond George ...

I dont have a picture of the fish to show you a closer look

like i said i have never seen this before ... but he looked healthy
for all purposes .... it was kinda like he landed in a well of ink
and he had a good time wallowing around in it ... it wasnt a
couple of spots he was plastered with spots .... the meat dont
look any different than normal ... but it got me thinking what could
it be ?

I thoguht maybe that he might be picking up a color of the dirt
or gravel in the pond .... i dint ask the farmer what kind it had in
the bottom ... but this pond is regualry fished by local people and
the farmers family of course .... it just puzzled me i geuss

thanks for the help

mike

Many August Nights on The Delaware if you listen very carefully you can actually hear Big George a singin of in the distance...


I'm so lonesome I could cry...







If you ask me, I think he's trying to serenade one of them she devil Channell's!
Sides The Big Guy has he and himself to deal with! LOL

did you guys hear about the pollution spill up my way just north of easton? well i guess the ppl power plant had a problem and it was dumping sludge into the river! this was in the set of river that i fish in! but they have the sludge going down over 25 miles now. well in this sludge is lead, mercury, and aresnic so i would not be eating any fish or swimming in the delaware for some time now! its a shame what happened but aperently there have been no fish kills yet and i can say the same thing because while a set of people were cleaning up sludge on the beach it came from i was fishing about 15 yards away and catching a bunch of smallies. there was a big school of shad in the area and the smallies were gorging themselves where i was, when i was catching them i could see the baby shad in the mouths that there stomach was so full. i caught over 25 smallies off that beach with the biggest being about 17 inchs. the trick was using a small spinner or spoon that look like the shad and casting where the current met the slack water. bam nailed 4 nice smallies on my 1st drift on the 25 yard beach. i was in a kayack with an ultra lite so i did take a minute or 2 to land a fish so you can tell the bite was hot! im going up all weekend and trying some catfishing and more smallmouth. ill try to get a link to that story with the sludge