Animal Planet MEETS the Susquehanna River 5/4/13

Oh what a night  day!  :0  Even Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons couldn't have scripted this day any better.  I'm NOT that old but using this reference will make you wonder.  HaHa!  I set the alarm for 3:30AM and hit snooze until 4:00AM.  I was on the Pennsylvania Turnpike heading for the Susquehanna River at 4:30AM.  However, on this day there was a special guest - my 12 year old daughter, Olivia.

Yes, she slept most of the way to the water.  But that's okay ... she was saving her energy to do this:

Water temps this morning were 58 degrees.  By days end we noticed it climbed to 62 on the fish finder.  Blue birds sky prevailed for every minute of our fishing adventure.  However, it was nature that stole the show today.  

Not quite sure what kind of snake this is?  It was pretty big though.  He somehow became entangled in my tube bait.  It took a minute but this slithery fella was able to swim away without incident.  We were also lucky enough to witness an eagle carry a BIG small mouth bass to his lady and kids for lunch.  Pretty good day on Animal Planet meets the Susquehanna River.  

My daughter had an outstanding time watching the eagles, the turkeys, the turtles, the red tailed hawks, the herons and even the Muskie that attempted to railroad a smallmouth I was reeling in towards the boat.  I had an outstanding time just spending time with my little girl.  Almost forgot - we also did some bass fishing

  

40 bass total today!  1 walleye on opening day (Catch - Photo - Release).  Spending the day fishing with your daughter ..... PRICELESS!  

Hey, not even the JERK who did this could have ruined our day

steeler fishin'