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Angler gets nice catfish
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Bob Frye covers the outdoors for the Tribune-Review. He can be reached via e-mail.
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It takes the right mix of skill and luck to catch one big fish a day. Getting two in the same afternoon is really something special.
Anglers fishing Glade Run Lake in Butler County reported nice catches of trout last weekend. Bass, meanwhile, were hitting for those using live bait.
At Lake Erie, boaters were picking up steelhead in 75 to 100 feet of water in the second trench northwest of Walnut Creek. There has been no action in the tributaries.
Fishing on the Monongahela River has been pretty slow, said D.R. Plants of Shadlure in West Elizabeth. He said he spent an hour jigging Friday and caught just three small bass. The Yough wasn't much better, having come up Thursday night.
There's not a lot going on at Greenlick or Donegal lakes either, said John Dressler of Red's Bait Shop. Anglers were catching some panfish and legal bass at Acme Dam, though, along with small channel catfish.
Anglers were buying minnows to try for trout in the outflow area at Yough Dam, but there hasn't been any word on how they did, said Kenny Morrison of Nicklow's Bait Shop. "They said the bass were biting pretty good on crabs" in the main lake, however, he added.
On the Ohio River, anglers fishing around Montour Creek and the Emsworth Dam were getting some fish with shiners, said Chuck Adkins of island Firearms.
Sam Petrill of Jeannette knows all about that.
Fishing Crooked Creek Lake in Armstrong County recently, Petrill hooked a 36-inch channel catfish. The fish was big enough to earn a catch-and-release citation from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission.
"We did not weigh it because we didn't want to keep it out of the water too long," Petrill said.
Petrill topped his day off by catching a 24-inch channel catfish about an hour later. Both fish hit a jig and minnow combination.
"I haven't heard anything of size, but I heard they're catching lots of stripers," Adkins said.
