Juniata River 4th of July

[SaltyBuckster]

Went out this morning to make sure that the boat was ready for the flounder trip tomorrow morning.This is a tribute to our fellow member Toadfrog's creations.1/8 oz. brown roundhead with an orange and brown paddletail made by Toadfrog.Put on some 8 lb. test on my Mitchell 300 and Ugley Stik combo and tied it on last night.1 paddletail = 1, 2 1/2 lb. smallmouth.Pretty good ratio there Toad.Was out for about 45 mins.

 

[Ron Don]

Great pics of the rail bridge. Great catch too!

 

[Jig Man]

With a catch like that we can assume the boat ran great......

 

[SaltyBuckster]

The boat ran like a 2011 model.

 

[JUNGLEJIM1]

Very nice smallie,it looks like there should be a ton of them in that stretch of river. Beautiful !!!!!!

 

[StumpHunter]

Great pics! Looks like you have a good place picked out to fish.

 

[Fatman]

Just watch out for that BIG log jam. Nice smallies.

 

[jjsjigs]

Love the Juniata River!! 'yakked it last year. I'm really addicted to fishing the Little J and the Frankstown Branch too!

 

[SaltyBuckster]

jjsjigs we have to plan a smallmouth trip one of these days.

 

[Pup]

Nice-looking river and nice catch AZ.

Great-looking bait TF. :jig: :icon14:

 

[AtticaFish]

Nice chunky SMB. That does look like a nice plastic bait too.

I have to agree with JJ1 - i could spend many hours JUST around those bidge pilings and logjam..... how deep was the area you had the boat in? Beautiful river!

 

[SaltyBuckster]

That part of the river was about 5 - 6 feet in the channel.Above the bridge.About 10 foot below the fish dam under the bridge.To go up over the fish dam above the bridge you would have needed a jet.But we did try,lol.

 

[papaperch]

AZslabber- my maternal side of the family hails from Huntingdon Pa. Which the Juniata runs close to. I fact as a kid I used to refer to it as the Juanita river. Fished it , Whipple Dam and several creeks for trout , bass , chain pickerel and about anything else a 12 yrd old boy could think of. That was more than 50 years ago which was well before Raystown was built.

Grandfather , David A. Price was a great trout fisherman in the 30s and 40s prior to moving to Ohio during WWII. He took great joy in showing how to use fly rod and to fish his favorite spots back home. He always refered to Huntington as back home and never did take Ohio to heart. LOL
By the way my first fly rod was given to me by him. It was won in a trout contest sometime in the 30's. Wished I still had it.

 

[SaltyBuckster]

Yea Hays, Huntington is just down the road from me.I have a trout creek right in front of me.Can't wait for the leaves to fall so I can get a good pic of it from my porch.Honey Creek it is.