Reader photos: Large and unusual fish

Posted on: June 16, 2015 | Bob Frye | Comments

Local anglers have enjoyed some fine fishing in recent days, though sometimes not of the kind expected.

Take the case of Henri Claudon of Allison Park.

He’s a self-described “musky hunter” who was fishing the Allegheny River in the Harmarville area “on a hunch I had because of the weather.” He was fishing with an artificial bait.

He caught not a musky, but a 40-inch paddlefish. He didn’t get its weight, but it stretched more than 40 inches, he said.

Claudon

Henri Claudon with his paddlefish.

 

His is the second paddlefish to turn up in the last week or so. An angler named Matthew Wolfe was fishing for flatheads with cutbait on the Monongahela when he accidentally caught a paddlefish, too.

Wolfe paddlefish

Matthew Wolfe and his Monongahela River paddlefish.

 

A couple of other anglers did well on bass.

Ray Chu of Export was fishing Donegal Lake on Saturday, opening day of bass season across the state. He was on shore, tossing a nightcrawler.

The result was a 20 ¾-inch, 5-pound, 6-ounce largemouth.

Chu bass

This largemouth bass came from Donegal Lake, caught by Ray Chu of Export.

 

At Yough Dam, meanwhile, Tony Luciow of Herminie was fishing a 1/16-ounce jig tipped with a medium-sized minnow when he caught a smallmouth bass that went 18 inches and weighed about 3.5 pounds. He released it to be caught again.

Tony Luciow

This is a look at Tony Luciow’s Yough Dam smallmouth bass.

 

Bob Frye is the everybodyadventures.com editor. Reach him at 412-838-5148 or bfrye@535mediallc.com. See other stories, blogs, videos and more at everybodyadventures.com.

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