Unlike past trips on the Delaware when the water is clear, we couldnt find many smallmouth in the slower stretches but occasionally did pull one out from a slow moving bank like under some structure. The key was hitting the fast water, moving the canoe into the eddies or onto shore and casting into the fast runs. Or at the tails of runs floating down and hitting the banks where there was still some flow and nice rock structure.
Most of my fish came off topwater. They would even hit in in the fast runs that looked like striped bass water!! The fish were super aggressive once you found them.
Fishing was great and exciting in these fast runs, but pretty tame and often a straight paddle past the slower stretches. Others tried for muskie in these slow stretches. We only managed one small one just over 20 inches with a boomerange shaped body.
We saw a few adult American Shad especially around wallpack bend. probably could have seen more if we had better water clarity. I think we also saw a bunch of YOY shad around a 2-3 inches long.
Plenty of bald eagles!
Our one friend hooked up with a schoolie striper in slower water but wasnt able to land it. popped at the canoe
some guy was putting canoes on a 6-canoe trailer (the tall racks) and he fell off and landed on his back right onto the cement. He must have broke his fall somehow and protected his head but dam! idk how he was walking around after. Bit of an older gent too. nutty.
