2010 Ice Spots: Wysox Ice Shelf

You would be going across private land, respect the landowner and ask first. That trailer park has hostile locals in it. I fish that area a lot in open water it gets hammered because of the trailer park and a favorite place for the WCOs to patrol. It's a shallow cove maybe 5ft deep ave at the mouth soft bottom. The other side is 15ft deep and rock. That's where the walleyes are. There isn't a foot of the river in Bradford county that I haven't fished in the past 30 years as a guide.

Hey I know that cove!!! 
 
Also above that spot where the Wysox Creek spills in is good for flats carp fishing.

Rather than deal with hostiles, I would rather respectfully request permission to cross someones land.  Never like returning to my truck with flat tires, busted windows or stolen equipment just because I am fishing a certain hole.

Well.... guess I will have to swing by and see the landowners.

   The name of the place is Echo Beach, you can also get to it by walking in the upstream side above the trailer park and houses. That's a hike though.
Or you can ask the landowner below the trailer park.

Unless we get another prolonged deep freeze I wouldn't worry about it. In the last two days the river has come up two foot and still is climbing and the current has increased three fold. What ice? However when it calms down there might be a certain jet boat on the river by Feb.

I bet your watching those guages like a hawk aren't you?  LOL!

I'm hoping that by this weekend 90% of the ice chunks will be off the creeks.  I'm dying to scout out the DH-ALO on the Towanda Creek to see what holdovers are left.  It will be a slow nymphing game but it will be fun to flyfish locally in January.

I check them twice a day. Right now the river is very fast for the depth because of the ice has narrowed the flow. As soon as it's safe, I don't give a crap if I catch anything or not, I want to be on the boat. My big safe boat with the big safe motor that is. I wonder how long it will be before we hear of the first fatality connected to the river this year due to someone in a small boat that threw an anchor out to slow them down.

Every year they fish one or two out...

For awhile we had a lot of people throwing themselves off the Veterans bridge.  Thank god that stopped.  It disturbs my fishing!

I plucked a woman off the base of that bridge once after she neatly wrapped her aluminum canoe around it in the early spring. The dummy.

I was having this discussion on another site...  but it applies here as well.

Boats have to get a license, take a test, etc.  It give them a foundation of knowledge.

The PFBC does not do this with canoers and kayakers.  We paddle guys need to also get a basic foundation prior to getting out on the water.  Do's, dont's, etiquette when dealing with powered boats, anglers, etc.

Paddle guys have to get a "PA access" sticker to float on trips on any "approved PFBC waters".  I think at a basic level their should be some type of online course (?) for the non-powered boaters to receive some type of safety cert. or license before we can get our access sticker. 

Just my .02 cents...  I see a lot of 'yakkers whom are looking to die on the streams and rivers.

I second your motion.

I don't know why it is but, it doesn't seem to me, from the people that I talk to, that people have much respect for the river.  Both in terms of just how dangerous it can be or environmentally.  Several years ago I had the misfortune to attend a funeral of a co-worker who had taken his children to riverside park in the spring.  From what the invesigators had put together they were leaving and he (co-worker) was putting his youngest in the car when he looked back to put his five year old in he saw the boy going in the river.  He ran over and went in after him.  Neither made it.  At the funeral they were in the same casket.  Heartbreaking does not begin to describe it.  
It seems like some version of this plays out every year.  Makes me sad to think about it again.   But it keeps me on my toes when I'm around the water and especially the river.  I even make sure my kids wear pfd's and I talk to them about safety.

But doesn't the test thing only apply to boats 16 ft and up? I agree every boater or floater should take an etiquette test, when you see a gaggle of them coming they don't give a hoot what your doing or if the get in your way. One business makes a good BUCK on the river and should at least do that for those fishermen who spend alot of time on the water, but i guess not.

Anybody can take the safe boating course if they want to, but only certain people have to. Everyone that operates any kind of boat should be made to just to get some basic knowledge.  As for boat etiquette, don't get me started. I think that every boater and wader/swimmer that goes on the North Branch in Bradford County should be made to take a safety and etiquette course in the winter from ME! Because I put up with them everyday!

Buck-Buck-Buck, yeah I got it