This is NOT a fish story !

This is a new record Northern Pike in Canada. It was caught it on Turtle Lake. Check this thing out. The man (in the photos below), was fishing, and caught a 36" Pike. As he was reeling it in, a 56" - 55 lb Pike tried to eat it!!!!! He landed them both in the same net. The last picture is unreal.

New show: North Branch of the Susquehanna River

Lance our guide and myself with a hard fighting smallmouthWe have been really busy at DVO shooting new shows for the fall and shooting footage for DVD's over the last two months. But we got a chance to go fishing with a good friend Lance Dunham from LD Guide Service. I love fishing the North Branch with Lance but I hate the long drive. It took my producer and I three and a half hours to make the three hour drive. I left my house at 4am to make it to my producer's home by 5am so we can take his van which was loaded with all of the video equipment we need to travel with to produce the shows but we failed to take into consideration that almost every road we traveled on had construction going on and slowed our travel progress down.

We arrived 30-minutes late and found our guide casting his baits on the ramp. Not a good sign but he reported that he caught 2 small fish right at the ramp. That's also not a good sign and could be the kiss of death and a omen to a day of catching no fish on the river. We loaded up the gear on the jet boat and off we go to the first spot. The river was heavily stainded from recent rains but water temp was 60 degrees in the main river but we had stoped at a small creek that we thought we could find some cleaner and clearer water.  I tied on a chartreuse spinner-bait and Lance tied on a black hair jig. 20 minutes later... no fish. "Those two fish Lance caught at the dock had jinks us and we were now in for a long day", flashed thru my mind. Lance pronounced "They're not here fellows, lets move!" and off we went jetting south to another spot.

This is where I would like to say we slayed them but 30-minutes later still no fish. Spot number three... here we come. On the inside of a small island Lanced hooked up and we had the show open on tape. A few minutes later and WHACK! its my turn. We managed to pick the river apart and we squeezed out about 20 fish throughout the next 6 hours. We made our way back upriver to the ramp skimming over some water that was only inches deep. The trip back took about a 20 minutes and it was good feeling the sunshine and wind hit my face as I took in the sights of a beautiful river with no other boats in sight. We did see several times throughout the day some bald eagles and that is a sight I will always remember. What a majestic, regal bird and it was a real treat to see it living his life on the river.

We did the tackle box after we pulled the jet-boat out at the ramp and we were back on the road by 3:15pm and I didn't make it home to 8pm. My work is done for this show but my producer has 3 more days of editing before the show is ready for viewing.

See you on the water...

Introduction to Coastal Striped Bass Fishing

We have been in pre-production on a new DVD called "Introduction to Coastal Striped Bass Fishing" but today we got a chance to shoot some video with Capt. Kris Black from Fish Stix Guide Service out of Belmar, NJ. It didn't take long to get to the spot to catch some bunker for bait. Just North of the inlet we found many schools of Bunker on our sonar. Large pods of thousands of Bunkers appear as if they were the bottom on our screen. We did some snag hooking the Bunker for bait and with a little help from one of the other guide services who happen to be netting the bunker, we soon had our bait live well full.

A quick run further North we came to 25 or 30 boats clustered around an area just off the shoreline. Action was hot and furiously for a hour of drifting with the boats. One large striper after another couldn't resist our Bunker. We had a lot of work to do for the new DVD and this time the fish were cooperating with us and biting on cue.

This DVD is just one of many we are working on right now. All will be available on our website and at the sport shows in the fall.

Special thanks to a great Captain, Kris Black from Fish Stix Guide Service for taking us out and putting us on big fish. If you are looking for a great guide and a good boat to going fishing with talk to Kris and he will put you on some nice Stripers.

Update on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 12:20PM by Michael Haney

In Photo: Bob Murray, Capt Kris Black and Steve Horvath with 38lb Striper

Fishing on Kentucky Lake

Randy Kuhens from Kick'n Bass Guide ServiceI'm in Kentucky for a fishing tournament and as I always recommend when you are on a strange lake we got a local fishing guide to take us out and do some fishing and get some fishing tips and reports. I got a chance to go out with Randy Kunhens from Kick'N Bass. Randy took us to Kentucky Lake and the weather was great but we didn't fish, we just went out on the lake and found good spots on our depth finder. Wish us luck on our two day tournament which starts Friday.

Kentucky LakeThis is a beautiful lake I'll try to post some photos. Here is my guide doing a video on Kentucky Lake.

Shad Fishing is alive and well on the Delaware River

Capt. Dieter Scheel and Bob Murray Shad fishing on the Delaware RiverI remember eagerly looking forward to Shad fishing on the Delaware every spring. It signified the start ot another season of fishing. But in recent years I've been getting reports that the "Shad fishing isn't what it use to be", and "there no more Shad in the river". Well I'm here to to you that just not true. I think we have lost a whole generation of anglers that have forgotten how to fish for Shad.

I just went out with Capt. Dieter Scheel of Big D River Guide Service and he has renewed my love for Shad fishing. Capt. Dieter specializes in fishing for Shad (as well as stripers & smallmouth bass). He has developed a system for fishing for Shad that is simply amazing. We just shot a new show for TV on Shad fishing; the last one we did was 14 years ago. Capt Dieter gave us lots of tips and shared his system for fishing for Shad. The show is in post production right now and I will post a video as soon as its done.