12/26/2014

Water Temp - 38 degrees
Air Temp - 48 degrees
Conditions - Sunny & Blue Bird Sky's & winds - 5-10 MPH

Christmas was exciting as usual - the kids woke up, unwrapped gifts, posed for pictures and were happy with what the FAT guy left under the tree.  My Christmas morning should have been December 26th.  Christmas is all about the kids and we wouldn't have it any other way.  However, the fishing GODS were offering a Merry Fishmas to me as well.

Ken Varilek and I met up at 6:00AM and headed for the main stem of the Susquehanna River.  The weather was perfect for late December.  Our only concern was reports of a local catching (1) fish just a week earlier.  You can't catch fish if you sit at home and read others' reports so we headed out to see how the smallies were feeling.

Let's just say the fish were willing to come on board and take a few pictures with us! Here is one of many BIG fish.  We landed 46 total smallies during today's trip.  This included Ken's 20th 20 inch fish of the year.  Ken landed 2 other 19's and I was able to pull in 3 19's myself.  The biggest coming in at 19.75.  There were 5 other boats on the water with us today.  Everyone seemed to be catching fish!  Not exactly sure how well the other guys did though.  We were too busy having a blast!

Sometimes pictures give away locations of fish being caught!  This place is no secret! However, you must still know what the fish are looking to feed on that day.  Today, fish were going for jerkbaits, tubes, spoons and swimbaits.

Early morning catch pictured above.  We knew it was going to be a good day!

Merry Christmas!

Happy New Year!

Notice Ken's celebratory cigar smoke! I do believe he lit this up after catching that 20 inch chunk!

This was the first fish brought in this morning.  It took about 5 minutes to catch a case of "stinky finger!" Hope you enjoyed today's post!  Wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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