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I have wanted to fish with Dave Shindler, owner of JST Fishin' Guide Service, for a while and Bob Forbes and I got to do it today. Dave had posted (on Facebook) that he had a last minute cancellation for today so we jumped on it.  He then emailed me back and said the river was still high, the water was still too chilly and that we could change the day for another one later in the month. Both Bob and I decided that we wanted to fish so we told Dave to expect us at 8 AM....we wanted to fish!

It was about 50 degrees when we put in.....



....and motored to our 1st spot. While this looked good, we did not land any fish although we had 2 bites.



Dave then went out to the main stem and we drifted while throwing spinner baits (he made me do it too). It did not take long for Bob to hook up and get into a fight.......



......with this nice and fat 19 inch smallie!



Lots of power plants on this river!





While I am washing lures, Bob hooks up again, this time on a walleye!



And then another one (along with several more smallies)....



While Bob caught fish, I practiced my casting. I was really doing  well dropping my baits where Dave wanted me to. So well, that on a blind, sideways cast I managed to get snagged on this RR spike....



What was it doing there? Bob didn't care as he hooked in to this nice FAT 16 incher....



These fish are big up here in PA...I may need to go back a few more times.

Dave and Bob were now mocking me.......     





.....but I finally managed my 1st smallie.....



and walleye.....



For the day, I caught 4 smallies and 1 walleye, Dave caught 3-4 smallies (he did not fish much) and Bob caught 6 smallies and 3 walleye. Most of teh fish were caught on spinnerbaits except that i caught 1 smallie and 1 walleye on a fat tube. I also threw a case fluke for a bit of teh day to no avail.

I HIGHLY recommend Dave Shindler if you ever want to fish the Susky. He worked hard to make a decent day out of tough conditions. Bob and I put the pressure on by wanting to fish a fast river and Dave did a nice job on getting us some nice chances. I will be back!!

I love them red eyes!