I live a 20min drive from Kinzua, near the upper allegheny. Work just south of Erie.
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2023 Fishing Thread
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I live a 20min drive from Kinzua, near the upper allegheny. Work just south of Erie.
casts_by_fly
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We have a cabin outside of Emporium and used to go up that way a lot. We fished the allegany by Port Allegheny a good bit and some of the tributaries there. My dad used to fish Kinzua for walleye a bunch when I was young. Then we got into club bass tournaments and ended up fishing the I-79 corridor a bunch. I'm pretty familiar with your area there.
Awesome! I feel pretty fortunate to live where I do. Enough public to get lost almost like out west and near unlimited fishing opportunity.
Had a good weekend chasing panfish, went out for a few hours each night on a low pressure backwoods reservoir (hike in only, a little over a mile. Keeps people away). Caught 42 pumpkinseed (all but 8 were larger than 7"), a handful of bluegill including one 9-1/4" gill, (2) yellow perch, and 8 largemouth.
Kept the 12 biggest pumpkinseed and the 2 yellow perch.
Kept the 12 biggest pumpkinseed and the 2 yellow perch.
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You callin that shellcracker a punkinseed?
Yes? I thought thats what it was. Don't catch a ton of them. Please school me if needed.
Looks like a red ear to me or what we call a shellcracker. Pumpkinseeds for us are the little orange and blue perch. Shellcrackers get up pretty good size for perch. Dont remember ever catchin a pumpkinseed that would make 7". 5-6" would be a big one around here where shellcrackers will commonly run a pound or better. Question wasnt about schooling or correcting, thought maybe it was a regional thing.Yes? I thought thats what it was. Don't catch a ton of them. Please school me if needed.
I just did some research, pretty sure its a pumpkinseed. Might be a north/south slang thing. PA fish and boat is calling them pumpkinseed on the biologist report for this reservoir as well. They both have the little 'redear' thing. After googling shellcrackers, I don't think I have ever seen one up here.
That's 100% a pumpkinseed. We don't have many shellcrackers up north. They are more round, less oblong and their colors are similar but duller.
I need a some kinda trip soon. Work has been grinding me into a paste lately. I hate tax season. When work makes me grouchy my kids proportionally drive me 10x more nuts. It's either walleyes, lake trout, or turkeys not sure which.
I did sneak out Friday for a minute. It was intended to be more of a hiking/scouting type mission but I took along a spinning rod and it turned into my lifetime best native brookie pulled out of a beaver pond. I had one cast per spot because my partner's retrieving instincts.
I need a some kinda trip soon. Work has been grinding me into a paste lately. I hate tax season. When work makes me grouchy my kids proportionally drive me 10x more nuts. It's either walleyes, lake trout, or turkeys not sure which.
I did sneak out Friday for a minute. It was intended to be more of a hiking/scouting type mission but I took along a spinning rod and it turned into my lifetime best native brookie pulled out of a beaver pond. I had one cast per spot because my partner's retrieving instincts.
hokiehunter373
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Same here for me and I hate that it happens. My wife does to and is like yup, time to go get outside. 30 mins of fishing is usually all I need for a solid reset for the week. I try and do that a couple times a week when time allows and sunset is late. Got a new pup a month ago and hope to be able to take him like you did once he's a little better trained. Should make it even better. Congrats on the pretty trout and I hope you get your reset soon!
^^^that's because you caught a brown trout, lol. Still a pretty fish! Nothing like a few trout and a hike with man's best friend to give you a good "reset"
The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.
~John Gierach
You're probably right. Not gonna lie I was a bit thrown by it. It has brookie fins, but brown coloration. The person I consulted said go with the brookie fins. The pectoral fins looked just like any brookie I've ever seen which of course I failed to get in the pic. I've caught a lot of both and I'm still not 100% sure. At very first glance I thought it was a rare tiger trout, but it doesn't have any of the "stripes".
@7mmremmag this is what we call a pumpkinseed
No red on the ear and has lots of orange and blue. Got on the google image machine and see where a lot of pics of pumpkinseeds do look like the fish in your pic. Those versions look almost identical to shellcrackers. Congrats on the fishin trip!!
No red on the ear and has lots of orange and blue. Got on the google image machine and see where a lot of pics of pumpkinseeds do look like the fish in your pic. Those versions look almost identical to shellcrackers. Congrats on the fishin trip!!
Trying to catch a bass but this crappie was hongry
That is Lepomis megalotis.
Yours is Lepomis microlophus.
Sunfish are a mess. Too many interchangeable local names. Add in hybridization, spawn colors, differences in coloration between sex, etc and it just gets messier.
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It’s a whocaris justfishis-
Just enjoy the fishing! Beautiful colors!
Does that make them cousins or stepfishes? Thanks for the clarification.