Well we have been giving it our all the past week on the Susquehanna Flats.  As with every year, each day has been an adventure.  Amazingly enough, we have been blessed this year with good water conditions througout early April.  Even with recent rains, water clarity and temperature have remained excellent and in the perfect range for catching striped bass.

Water clarity was 4 feet plus in many areas of the flats this week, and temps range from 50 to as much as 58 degrees in some locations.  Fishing has been fay to day, and truly unpredictable.   We had a good bunch of  schoolie size stripers around much of the last two weeks ranging from 15 inches to 10 lbs or so.  A couple days we saw plenty of teenagers  in the 12to 20 lb range , and of course there are some real hawgs around in the mix too if you can get lucky enough to catch one.

While some days we have struggled to cartch, the days the bite is on the fishing has been quite good.  Fish have been readily taking  flies on deep lines, our favorite of course as you see me post constantly is the chartreuse and white half and half.  We have not seen much of a topwater bite yet, but I do not imagine it will be long.  Soft bodied jigs like BKD”s have worked good in 7 and 10 inch on conventional tackle.  Chartreuse and Purple glitter have been good colors.    Suspending  swimming plugs also have taken their share of good fish.

This week should bring some good fishing after the rain and wind get out of here.  I don’t believe we have seen the best of it yet.