Rocky River, OH Fishing Report

 So this one is kinda heavy. Please, if you enjoy a good jam while hitting the river I want you to press play and work through some of the shots below. I love to fish, and coinciding with that, is making sure that there are some hot jams setting the stage for the day.

 Richard below set some high standards for us this week and that half smurk/grin can sum up an emtion of, wow did that fish just grace me with its presence. Yes it did Richard, and what a fantastic fish it was.  

 We were also fortunate enough to catch up with a couple guys who besides being from the Pits#$%5g area were pretty classy guys. It was a great day with some awesome weather and some nice fish brought to the net. Mike shown below has spent many of days chasing wild PA trout, but after a couple days chasing Steelhead, I think a new 7wt rod may be in his near future.

Well we wanted rain and we got it. Hurricane Sandy blew up the eastern seaboard and dump a whole bunch of rain on Ohio.  


 Flooding out most of NE Ohio's rivers, Sandy forever changed them. When the river's get such a forceful blow much of the river can change. Your old reliable fishing hole may be a thing of the past or that piece of water you hardly ever fish, may have turned into something special.

In the past week, I was fortunate to meet and fish with some great people.

We had some people hook, hold, and release their first steelhead this week. It is always fun watching someone's eyes open up and for them to step into the passion of Steelhead fly fishing. Here's to the young men I met this past week, Charlie, Chase, and Keegan.

The rivers are low and clear with some fish left in them. Fishing has been ok, nothing great, but still plenty of reason to get out on the water.

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The water has dropped and the sun is out but there are a good number of fish that have moved into the river system. Swinging and stripping big streamers will be your best bet.  See you on the water.

Water is getting ,warm and low. Most game fish have dropped out of the system.

Water is getting ,warm and low. Most game fish have dropped out of the system.

Water has dropped and has nice color. You will find plenty of smallmouth, bluegill, as well as warm water species.

River is low but full of a variety of fish. Bluegill, catfish and smallmouth seem to be every ware. Now is the time to get out up coming rains may spoil things for a few days.

Water has dropped and fishing is good. Smallmouth bass, catfish,crappies have all moved into the river.

Mass floods and high winds are making conditions not only bad for fishing but dangerous as well.

Mass floods and high winds are making conditions not only bad for fishing but dangerous as well.

With major storms river has been left unfishable.

Water is poor and at flood stage.

River is looking good with plenty of smallmouth in the system.

The rivers are on the drop and will still give up a few steelhead.  Other than that, it's time to bust out the warm water gear and get ready for a great push of smallmouth.

Water is dropping and smallmouth fishing is heating up. They are loving minnow and small leach patterns in the low end of the river. Smallmouth well over 20" are common.

Guys and Gals with the rain giving us a break the Rocky dropped into great shaped.  There are a few fresh fish as well as some drop backs in the system.  Swinging big nasties to bead heads and egg patterns should do the trick. See you out there.