When it comes to exploring new fishing locations, everything is pretty much a gamble! Sometimes you find some gems; other times you find absolutely nothing! In this video, I explore an unnamed Creek in Bucks County that is connected to a golf course pond, in hopes of finding some _"monsters"_ that may lurk in it! Should I go back to this spot?! Let me know what you think!
I would go back and use 2 rods. Rig one with worms for any bottom rovers(bullhead,suckers) and the other rod active fish with lures for bass, perch, panfish.
Leo, I get that you are interested primarily in pure species, but I love hybrids. That said, I am 95% sure the ones you were catching were BluegillXGreen sunfish hybrids. I say that because I have caught a bunch that look just like them right down to the checkering in Alabama and Louisiana and, of course, we don't have Pumpkinseeds. Also, you didn't catch any Pumpkinseeds in the creek, but you did catch a bunch of Greenies and a few Bluegill. That seems like a perfect setup for hybrids in a small system like that. I have photos of the ones down here if you'd like to see them to compare to yours.
Hey leo - just helping hand. Copper/brown lenses are a lot better most of the time for creeks and rivers, in almost any weather. It brings out the differences in colors on the bottom, since you can see it, unlike a large body of water like a lake or the ocean, which your current lenses are better equipped for. just my two cents!
Powerbait Maxscent Flatnose Minnows are a great bait for many species. I catch a lot of carp on them. Bass and trout love them too, of course. If you use a #1 offset worm hook, the smaller sunfish won't be able to get it. I've caught 5" rainbows and brookies on that setup though.
Same i catch nothing but rock bass at my fishing spot. Occasionally every couple weeks I'll catch 1 big small mouth bass. but i still love it because its a great spot to teach my niece's and nephews to fish
As a biologist I can tell you that waterfowl move fish eggs from one body of water to another. In particular, ducks are especially adept at doing this. Fertilized eggs stick to their feathers and get carried to new eating grounds.
I've caught a hybrid like that in a pond. Had the most vibrant orange highlights. Here I am in Tennessee, and I felt like I caught a cichlid in the Everglades!
Leo those hybrids might be from that little creek. Where I live I have a little creek even smaller than that and it has the most species of fish in one place that I’ve ever seen. There at tons of hybrids in there and it’s crazy. Fish breed anywhere bro
True, , but the original species might have come from the golf course. When pond stocking, most places like that don't care about 'native species' to the area. Even PA Fish and Boat in PA doesn't care either. For example, they stock pure muskie, they stock the hardier Musky version, a sterile hybrid of pike/musky called Tiger Musky.
Apparently the green sunfish loves to lay her eggs in other peoples (fish people that is!) nests, creating some interesting hybrids. Here in Florida I have been told that they sometimes mix with Warmouth Bass (sunfish).
I caught this fish in my private lake which has tannic stained water. I'm in SE Georgia (Bulloch County), and I think I'm south of where you typically get pumpkinseed. I've never seen one around here, and I do a lot of fishing. I don't think there are any pumpkinseed in our lake. However, I did catch a strange looking fish in the attached photo this spring which I interpreted as a strange looking shellcracker (red ear), but after seeing the fish in your video, I'm realizing that it might be a pumpkinseed or a pumpkinseed hybrid. I've never seen a green sunfish in our lake either, but the lake has almost as many warmouth as bluegill and some shellcracker. I would love to know what you think this fish is. If its a pumpkinseed, that will be quite a surprise and good to know that we have some in the pond. Here's the link to the photo: facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1045585668930492&set=a.120942921394776&type=3
Beautiful fish i looked at your post and the comments the one on the post kinda looks lile a redear and green hybrid but the other ones lighter colored could be redbreast pumpkinseed hybrids
I sent the photos to a nearby fish hatchery to see what the folks there thought. They said they think it's a redear (shellcracker) hybrid with another sunfish. My guess is that it's with warmouth. I'm basing that on the biggish mouths, thick girth, and in the case of the male, the markings on his side which are a little warmouth like and the right shade of brown for male warmouth in this pond in breeding colors. I'm thinking I know how this happened. Most of the shellcracker in our lake were stocked in October of 2016. My understanding it that it takes two seasons for them to become sexually mature. Last spring I put a freaking huge female shellcracker in the lake that I had caught in the Ogeechee River. My thought was that such a big fish would bring good genes to the lake if the babies ever get big enough relative to her to not be scared of her. As I've been researching hybridization, it seems that when you have a female sunfish wanting badly to relieve herself of her eggs, she do so in the nest of closely related species resulting in hybrids if the eggs get fertilized. I've been interacting with another fisheries guy who claims that shellcracker and warmouth are really prone to hybridize with each other easily. The little fish looks like they are about a year old so their size and apparent ages are right to explain their genesis. The fish we stocked should be about three inches bigger than these guys by when they were caught. I have never, ever seen a pumpkin seed or green sunfish in the lake. Unless they came with the hatchery fish, its hard to explain where a hybrid with either of these species would have come from. The lake is full of warmouth, a very few of them are in a size range to have spawned with such a big redear.
You are right, these were both lovely fish, especially the male. I put them back, and hopefully if I'm right about where they came from, there are more in the lake. I'm curious to see what these fish look like when they are truly grown. Shellcrackers are a fair bit bigger than bluegill, and while warmouth are not exactly huge, they are a lot thicker than most sunfish. I suspect that these are eventually going to eventually make really big fish for sunfish, especially since they are in an 85 acre lake that getting a new start and the populations are still kind of sparse with very few large fish.
I'm willing to bet you bring some 3 to 4 inch shiners or some lure that imitates a minnow there's probably some solid 2lb+ bass in that creek and that's a solid creek bass
So how’s the new ultra light set up coming along ? It looks like so far it’s holding up to creek fishing Check in the little bait container I sent , there’s two tiny surprise that can help you in places like this .
Do you have any lakes around that have mostly huge carp an koi. The lake I fish all I caught were over 33 inches an we supposedly have super rare mirror carp in their.
I beleive your hypothesis is true. I also learned that birds eat fish eggs from one body of water and can poop them out in another. Good video thanks for sharing
I live in Northampton county north of u, i am looking for some really close good fishing spots. i am 16 yrs old and its hard to find a good trout spot. Im curious if you have any knowledge of a specific area.
At some point, even the golf course bass will make that creek home and start reproducing in it. I think that first bass was the offspring of viable adult bass established in the creek. Unless the golf course pond is new of course........
I wouldn't be so sure that there's no natural reproduction happening. I have no idea about the stocking habits of Pennsylvania golf courses but my guess is that the bass in the pond are reproducing and those dinks are their fry that have moved into the creek; probably to get away from their cousins and grandparents. So. They might not be native but they might not be stockers that are simply falling from the pond either. The various sunfish are definitely reproducing and creating all those cool hybrids. Cheers!
They might be spawning in the creek. They might be spawning in the pond. They might be spawning in the pond and the creek. But? They are, obviously, spawning somewhere! And? The different species spawning, wherever they are spawning, are creating some lovely fish. I have had at least one aquarium for about 40 years and I have been toying with moving away from saltwater to a freshwater tank with native species. Alas. I am forced to decide between choosing the native species I can buy and the native species I can illegally harvest.
its for the health of the pond. The bass are there so that there arent too many bugs, weeds, frogs, and other things. Plus an incentive to secretly fish the pond
Something to note because a lot of people don’t realize - Largemouth are invasive in EVERY body of water (that they occur in) in the Philadelphia area. Something I always keep in mind when it comes to the Snakehead drama. People wanna cry about Northern Snakeheads being invasive.... yeah, well, your precious Largemouth aren’t supposed to be here either. They may be “naturalized,” but they’ve impacted the natural ecology of our local waterways all the same.
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When it comes to exploring new fishing locations, everything is pretty much a gamble! Sometimes you find some gems; other times you find absolutely nothing! In this video, I explore an unnamed Creek in Bucks County that is connected to a golf course pond, in hopes of finding some _"monsters"_ that may lurk in it! Should I go back to this spot?! Let me know what you think!
Extreme Philly Fishing yes
Hey Leo have you ever seen any ginseng plant around the creek area?
I upload my first montage in a while, and EPF uploads his first episode in a little while.
Definitely go back. Some big swimbaits with colors similar to those hybrids might be a good idea.
I would go back and use 2 rods. Rig one with worms for any bottom rovers(bullhead,suckers) and the other rod active fish with lures for bass, perch, panfish.
Leo when wading in a creek or in a river, always walk against the current so the fish can’t hear you coming
Also so they have their eye's facing away from you and also so you don't stir up the bottom and spook them.
Very cool Congratulations, beautiful *video.*
Have a good week!
Hugs and good fishing.
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I love your videos makes me explore around me and fish random spots some are hits or misses but worth the time thank you 🙏
Haven’t been to your channel is a while but I’m glad I’m back missed the content.
Leo, I get that you are interested primarily in pure species, but I love hybrids. That said, I am 95% sure the ones you were catching were BluegillXGreen sunfish hybrids. I say that because I have caught a bunch that look just like them right down to the checkering in Alabama and Louisiana and, of course, we don't have Pumpkinseeds. Also, you didn't catch any Pumpkinseeds in the creek, but you did catch a bunch of Greenies and a few Bluegill. That seems like a perfect setup for hybrids in a small system like that. I have photos of the ones down here if you'd like to see them to compare to yours.
bravohuey I agree
Boy im in greece now, pretty drunk and watchin Ur Videos in the bed still my wife is next to me pr.etty Mad cause im so drunk....
Leo, your intro reminded me why you always tell your viewers to be safe while wading. You just never know! haha
I liked your introductions & talking style. Enjoyable fishing video.
Lookin forward to seeing you go back with some bass lures/senkos
Hey leo - just helping hand. Copper/brown lenses are a lot better most of the time for creeks and rivers, in almost any weather. It brings out the differences in colors on the bottom, since you can see it, unlike a large body of water like a lake or the ocean, which your current lenses are better equipped for. just my two cents!
Powerbait Maxscent Flatnose Minnows are a great bait for many species. I catch a lot of carp on them. Bass and trout love them too, of course. If you use a #1 offset worm hook, the smaller sunfish won't be able to get it. I've caught 5" rainbows and brookies on that setup though.
Leo ! Friend of mine caught an 8 lb. Flounder and a HUGE sheephead about 30 inches, in North Wildwood, today. FYI. Tight lines !
Leo apologizes for not posting a video in 3 days. Meanwhile, 1rod1reel post a video every 2-3 months with no excuse and apology.
1rod has some bigger issues than posting videos
@@deanfirnatine7814 like what? I hope he works things out whatever his problems are.
Family and probably his gf and a lot of other things
Always fun to watch these videos!
Same i catch nothing but rock bass at my fishing spot. Occasionally every couple weeks I'll catch 1 big small mouth bass. but i still love it because its a great spot to teach my niece's and nephews to fish
sweet adventure Leo.
Had a blast watching this awesome UA-cam fishing video
Keep up the hard work bro
As a biologist I can tell you that waterfowl move fish eggs from one body of water to another. In particular, ducks are especially adept at doing this. Fertilized eggs stick to their feathers and get carried to new eating grounds.
I've caught a hybrid like that in a pond. Had the most vibrant orange highlights. Here I am in Tennessee, and I felt like I caught a cichlid in the Everglades!
Great video. Much more interesting to explore new water with a theory and have it proved, thanks for uploading.
Leo I've been wondering, how come you aren't a teacher in middle school or something.
Great fishing Leo, you definitely need to bring a senko and try there. I caught a 4.6lb bass out of a creek that size this year on one. Fish on sir
bullshit
Chad Mulligan dam jealousy will get you no where. If you send me contact info I can send you some pics
Love you videos man. Keep up the great work.
nice job leo thank for sharing
Extreme Philly Fishing I was fishing the Tunkhannock Creekand I caught some huge carp and 2 Red Breast sunfish!
Leo those hybrids might be from that little creek. Where I live I have a little creek even smaller than that and it has the most species of fish in one place that I’ve ever seen. There at tons of hybrids in there and it’s crazy. Fish breed anywhere bro
True, , but the original species might have come from the golf course. When pond stocking, most places like that don't care about 'native species' to the area. Even PA Fish and Boat in PA doesn't care either. For example, they stock pure muskie, they stock the hardier Musky version, a sterile hybrid of pike/musky called Tiger Musky.
I love you and I love you fishing vids I love fishing
Great Vid Leo. Keep up the good work Mate.
Apparently the green sunfish loves to lay her eggs in other peoples (fish people that is!) nests, creating some interesting hybrids. Here in Florida I have been told that they sometimes mix with Warmouth Bass (sunfish).
What a video mate keep it up
🤣 that bass at 15:25 was soo small it almost died choking down that lil pink ANISOPTERA bug 🐜
Yes! EARLY SQUAD WHERE U AT. LOVE THIS CHANNEL😆
Hey leooo! First man I’m the guy who told you about my Pb on your stream. Love you bro.
Nice video, Leo! What about some more fly fishing? Um forte abraço!
I caught this fish in my private lake which has tannic stained water. I'm in SE Georgia (Bulloch County), and I think I'm south of where you typically get pumpkinseed. I've never seen one around here, and I do a lot of fishing. I don't think there are any pumpkinseed in our lake. However, I did catch a strange looking fish in the attached photo this spring which I interpreted as a strange looking shellcracker (red ear), but after seeing the fish in your video, I'm realizing that it might be a pumpkinseed or a pumpkinseed hybrid. I've never seen a green sunfish in our lake either, but the lake has almost as many warmouth as bluegill and some shellcracker. I would love to know what you think this fish is. If its a pumpkinseed, that will be quite a surprise and good to know that we have some in the pond. Here's the link to the photo: facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1045585668930492&set=a.120942921394776&type=3
Beautiful fish i looked at your post and the comments the one on the post kinda looks lile a redear and green hybrid but the other ones lighter colored could be redbreast pumpkinseed hybrids
Either way the ones in the comments are absolutely beautiful something id put in a nice aquarium just because of the coloring on them
Also could be a pumpkin seed green hybrid
I sent the photos to a nearby fish hatchery to see what the folks there thought. They said they think it's a redear (shellcracker) hybrid with another sunfish. My guess is that it's with warmouth. I'm basing that on the biggish mouths, thick girth, and in the case of the male, the markings on his side which are a little warmouth like and the right shade of brown for male warmouth in this pond in breeding colors. I'm thinking I know how this happened. Most of the shellcracker in our lake were stocked in October of 2016. My understanding it that it takes two seasons for them to become sexually mature. Last spring I put a freaking huge female shellcracker in the lake that I had caught in the Ogeechee River. My thought was that such a big fish would bring good genes to the lake if the babies ever get big enough relative to her to not be scared of her. As I've been researching hybridization, it seems that when you have a female sunfish wanting badly to relieve herself of her eggs, she do so in the nest of closely related species resulting in hybrids if the eggs get fertilized. I've been interacting with another fisheries guy who claims that shellcracker and warmouth are really prone to hybridize with each other easily. The little fish looks like they are about a year old so their size and apparent ages are right to explain their genesis. The fish we stocked should be about three inches bigger than these guys by when they were caught. I have never, ever seen a pumpkin seed or green sunfish in the lake. Unless they came with the hatchery fish, its hard to explain where a hybrid with either of these species would have come from. The lake is full of warmouth, a very few of them are in a size range to have spawned with such a big redear.
You are right, these were both lovely fish, especially the male. I put them back, and hopefully if I'm right about where they came from, there are more in the lake. I'm curious to see what these fish look like when they are truly grown. Shellcrackers are a fair bit bigger than bluegill, and while warmouth are not exactly huge, they are a lot thicker than most sunfish. I suspect that these are eventually going to eventually make really big fish for sunfish, especially since they are in an 85 acre lake that getting a new start and the populations are still kind of sparse with very few large fish.
Awesome video. Your funny in a Jeff Dunham's Peanut type of way...lol Keep casting
Love the vids
@11:34 there was a fish jumping when he said” who knows there might me a 5 pounder in here”
I'm curious how many jigs you lost? I always get so many snags when I creek fish.
Those are some very healthy fish
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Another great day of fishing. Just going out and having fun is all that matters. How do you find these places?
I'm willing to bet you bring some 3 to 4 inch shiners or some lure that imitates a minnow there's probably some solid 2lb+ bass in that creek and that's a solid creek bass
Great video!
So how’s the new ultra light set up coming along ? It looks like so far it’s holding up to creek fishing
Check in the little bait container I sent , there’s two tiny surprise that can help you in places like this .
Hey Leo i was curious if you have ever fish the Susquehanna River in PA? That is my favorite place to fish and explore
Some big catfish out of there i know that lol
Flair would of loved those small fish
My son and I landed our first Bowfins. Down here in FL. I saw your live stream but had poor cell service. Top catch my son's 5 lb 25 inch Bowfin.
come to scranton pa
You killed it at that creek brother
Dang those hybrids near the end are eating size 😲
Speaking of hybrids, ever heard of Georgia Giants? I'm lucky enough to have caught a few
That's a cool crick
No hate just love
Sucks to not be a patreon. Was wanting to see it
You should relocate those hybrids to your own private pond.
Dam sssssooooonnnn
Cool vid!
Do you have any lakes around that have mostly huge carp an koi. The lake I fish all I caught were over 33 inches an we supposedly have super rare mirror carp in their.
Wow you found my secret fishing spot.
I caught a 4 pounder back there
Jack Mcelwee I just went there and fished for largemouth with my buddies. 6 keepers, including one at 4.1lbs!
You're a beast man
What do you do to prevent bug bites?
The Indiana Jones intro 😂
The area at 16:20 would be perfect for a small popper
H O U R L O N G I N T R O
Thanks
U should drop a little piece of cut bait there, see if any catfish or eels are hiding at the bottom.
I beleive your hypothesis is true. I also learned that birds eat fish eggs from one body of water and can poop them out in another. Good video thanks for sharing
I can't believe you don't catch more rock bass most places you fish near Philly seem perfect for them
I live in Northampton county north of u, i am looking for some really close good fishing spots. i am 16 yrs old and its hard to find a good trout spot. Im curious if you have any knowledge of a specific area.
leo usa um plug pra pegar bass
awesome upload leo come to cali
I not sure Been watching you for a while have you been to raystown yet my wife go every chance we get
We call those shellcrackers and as far as i know they're not hybrids.
nowhere near a shellcracker.
hey Leo is there any discount codes for eurotackle?
Hey that’s good bait
At some point, even the golf course bass will make that creek home and start reproducing in it. I think that first bass was the offspring of viable adult bass established in the creek. Unless the golf course pond is new of course........
I wouldn't be so sure that there's no natural reproduction happening. I have no idea about the stocking habits of Pennsylvania golf courses but my guess is that the bass in the pond are reproducing and those dinks are their fry that have moved into the creek; probably to get away from their cousins and grandparents. So. They might not be native but they might not be stockers that are simply falling from the pond either. The various sunfish are definitely reproducing and creating all those cool hybrids.
Cheers!
pete sampson I agree. All of those sunfish are probably the product of natural reproduction in the creek.
They might be spawning in the creek. They might be spawning in the pond. They might be spawning in the pond and the creek. But? They are, obviously, spawning somewhere! And? The different species spawning, wherever they are spawning, are creating some lovely fish.
I have had at least one aquarium for about 40 years and I have been toying with moving away from saltwater to a freshwater tank with native species. Alas. I am forced to decide between choosing the native species I can buy and the native species I can illegally harvest.
@@petesampson4273 yes, but it seems incredibly naive to me to assume that they fish had to have flushed from the pond.
I agree.
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All because of fishing lol
Name that tune... Indiana Jones
Dang!
Come to VA Beach!
Why do they stock the ponds if no one fishes them?
Most golf courses are private clubs with, so members are often able to fish. But the main reason to stock the ponds is to help control bugs.
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Thank you sir.
Marcus Toole ddg.
its for the health of the pond. The bass are there so that there arent too many bugs, weeds, frogs, and other things. Plus an incentive to secretly fish the pond
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Hi leooo I watched ur live stream u got some nice scissors there
Hey Leo come to the grand river in ohio
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Your second largy is average in my bass fishing spot
I was view 69 lol 😂
9:54 This guy has problems.
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Something to note because a lot of people don’t realize - Largemouth are invasive in EVERY body of water (that they occur in) in the Philadelphia area.
Something I always keep in mind when it comes to the Snakehead drama. People wanna cry about Northern Snakeheads being invasive.... yeah, well, your precious Largemouth aren’t supposed to be here either.
They may be “naturalized,” but they’ve impacted the natural ecology of our local waterways all the same.
Snakeheads are voracious eaters far worse the Bass
dean counts Not from the studies I’ve read. And until you can show me data that proves differently, nah.
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Leo almost died......life would be over lol jk
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Hey what's up youtuuuuuubbbbe!
Wade in the water
Wade in the water
Children wade, in the water
I bet at this point there are reproducing fish in that creek, enough get dumped out of that pond nature will take its course
10:05
U only catch 1lbs no joke