Posts Tagged Allegheny River
Clear Water Powerfishing
Posted by Leo Cancilla in Tip of the Week on September 30, 2009
In clear water conditions such as most of the finger lakes in New York, Presque Isle Bay or any of the northern section of the Allegheny River power fishing can be very productive. There are a couple things to remember though. First, you need to keep the lure moving at a moderate to fast pace. You don’t want the fish to get too good of a look at your spinnerbait, buzzbait, or crankbait. Second, is that color selection needs to be as natural as possible. Third, don’t be affraid to fish over deep water near the surface. The fish will come a long way to strike in clear water. Good fishing.
East Brady
Posted by Leo Cancilla in Cancilla's Fishing Blog on September 9, 2009
Sunday morning Jess and I went up to East Brady for the morning to chase some river smallmouth bass. This is probably my favorite stretch of river to fish in the Western part of the state. For those who are unfimiliar with East Brady it is located on the Allegheny River. There is a public boat launch just off of the main drag across from town. East Brady is know of its campers and pleasure boating, but the fishing can be unbelievable.
We got there around 7:00 am and fish until around noon. My first stop gave me too nice smallmouth. Both were over 15 inches long. I caught 1 on a white buzzbait and the other on a chartruse spinnerbait. The fish that I caught were very aggressive. Later in the morning I managed to catch another keeper (about 14″). I also lost a true monster on a popper. Their were a weird set of circumstances with the hit, but lets just say that she broke my line and heart on the initial hit. I got a good look at the fish because it jumped to throw my popper back to me. I am guessing that the smallmouth was in the 20″ range. The rest of the fish that I managed to catch were dinks, but still fun.
In a couple of weeks the fishing at East Brady will get increasingly better until november. Then the fishing will get difficult. I am looking forward to my next trip up there.
FLW Forrest Wood Cup!
Posted by Leo Cancilla in Fishing Articles on July 29, 2009
For the second time in our city’s history we are about to host a national championship in competitive bass fishing! In the summer of the 2005 Pittsburgh hosted the Bassmaster Classic. This week we will be hosting the Forrest Wood Cup! The Forrest Wood Cup is the national championship for the FLW Tour and Series. There will be 77 professional fisherman bidding to be the number 1 fisherman in the world and win the largest top prize to date. The winner will recieve a total of $1,000,000.00! Needless to say these guys are going to lay it all on the line this week.
HOW DO THEY QUALIFY?
There are several ways for professional fisherman to qualify to compete in this years Forrest Wood Cup. I would like to start by saying that there is no easy way to qualify for this tournament. No matter what path that the anglers took they had to compete against hundreds and sometimes thousands of competitors to get to this point. The most qualifying positions come from the FLW Tour. Based on the end of the year points standings 40 professional fisherman qualify for the tournament. There were also 20 anglers that qualified through the FLW Series BP Eastern. Another 10 anglers qualified through the FLW Series National Guard Western. The bulk of the qualifiers come from those 3 circuits. The top angler in each of the 5 Stren Series circuits also qualify. The 2 hardest was to qualify is by winning the BFL All-American and the TBF National Championship. Those 2 qualifiers have to compete against more anglers than any other qualifier to get into the Forrest Wood Cup.
WHERE ARE THEY FISHING?
They are fishing the 3 rivers of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. On the Allegheny River the competitors are allowed to head as far up river as the sixth lock. The sixth lock is located just above the in downtown Kittanning Pennsylvania. The locks are very time consuming and leave little time to fish so look for most guys to lock less than 3 times. As for the Ohio River the competitors are allowed down stream as far as the Montgomery Locks and Dam. The Monongahela River will open open to fishing up to and including the Youghiogheny River. Chances are that most competitors will fish multiple rivers during the competition.
FAMILY FUN ZONE
Located at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, the Family Fun Zone and Outdoor Show will offer something for everyone in your family at this event. For the kids there will be games, simulators, and a trout pond. That doesn’t mean that big kids can’t have fun doing those as well. Other features include: meeting professional anglers, demonstrations from vendors and the anglers, and food. This is a true family environment so please be curtious. For specific times and events, please check on the FLW Outdoors website (www.flwoutdoors.com).
LIVE WEIGH-INS!
If you have never experience a live weigh-in at any level you are in for a real treat. Even if you have never fished you will be impressed by the bags of fish that are brought to the scales (alive) and later released back to the rivers. Live weigh-ins will occur Thursday-Sunday at the Mellon Arena. Once again for more details please check out the FLW Outdoors Website and for specific times. If all of that isn’t enough to bring you out to all of the championship festivities then perhaps the free concert performed by Eric Church will help bring you to the final day weigh-in.
I would like to take a minute to wish all of the competitors the best of luck in this years Forrest Wood Cup. There are many talented professional all competing on multiple water ways that most are not conditioned to fish. Now I would like to wish our hometown professional angler Dave Lefebre a special good luck. This is as close as you can come to having home field advantage in this sport and I am sure that he plans to capitolize on his oppurtuning. Dave grew up fishing our local waters and still live in Western Pennsylvania with his family. Show your support and let him know that we are in his corner at the weigh-ins this week.
If you plan to follow the anglers in your boat remember a couple of things so that you don’t interfer with their chances of catching fish. First, give them enough room to make their casts. Second, stay behind them. Don’t get out infront of their boat trying to get a look at what they are doing or how they are doing it. Bring a set of binoculars to help you see instead. Another thing to remember is to shut your sonars, combustion engines, and radios off. Our rivers can be difficult enough to fish without adding other bad elements into the equation. Finally, ask them if you are in there way or what direction they are heading so they you aren’t in their way. They will appreciate that more than anything and after the days competition has concluded, will be more than happy to answer questions and sign autographs for you. This is the only sports which you can be in the field of play with the professional athletes, so let’s remember that we can have an impact on the outcome of the tournament. Now, go have fun and share a special memory with your family and friends.
Night Out on the Allegheny River
Posted by Jon Parker in Parker's Fishing Blog on May 2, 2009
My buddy BJ and I went out on the Springdale pool of the Allegheny river for a few hours Friday after work. BJ just purchased his first boat so we went out to check it out. Since we are already out on the water we decided to do a little fishing while we were out. We were only able to stay out for 2-2 ½ hours but ended up landing 8 bass (7 spotted and 1 smallmouth) as well as 4 rock bass. All the fish we caught came by working walls and pillars with crawfish style plastics, Texas rigged with a 1/8 bullet weight. Had to let the baits sit in place for a good 20-30 seconds to get them to take it. Here is BJ first fish on his new boat. Really nice looking spotted bass. I would say it was 15-16″ and really fat.
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