Looking for rocky bottom (wadeable) bass streams in central or east PA

[PaScoGi]

Trout season is over, its just too hot.

Time for bass and pan fish.

I do not own a boat and really don't like fishing from a boat.

I like to wade and walk through a river.

Every bass location in books and research that I have went to have muddy streamsides that I sink in and get stuck if I try to wade.

Are there any streams (no lake recommendations please) that have rocky bottoms (similar to a typical trout stream) that hold bass or panfish? Preferably in the central or eastern side of the state.

Again, no muddy bottom streams please.

Thanks for any recommendations.

 

[Bamboozle]

Why not the Susquehanna...?

Also the Brandywine above Pocopson is easily waded, it's just tricky finding a place to park along Creek Road.

 

[CLSports]

Lehigh river

 

[dudemanspecial]

Why not the Susquehanna...?

I can't think of a single counterpoint here. Not hard to find easy wading and not hard to find some nice smallmouth. Plenty of water too.

 

[coyoterahn]

The smallmouths are hitting well right now on the Susquehanna.

 

[PaScoGi]

Why not the Susquehanna...?

Also the Brandywine above Pocopson is easily waded, it's just tricky finding a place to park along Creek Road.

Susquehanna is mostly mud bottom. Where can you safely wade it?

 

[Bamboozle]

Susquehanna is mostly mud bottom. Where can you safely wade it?

????

I don't know where you've fished it but you can wade ACROSS quite a few places from above Harrisburg to the mouth of the Juniata. It's pretty much ALL rocks with some the size of a Buick.

If the size of the river intimidates you, fish between one bank and an island which will make it seem like a much smaller river.

 

[6xAdams(Jones)]

My son just took a ride to Haldeman Island in Perry County, looking for a place to hike and hunt. It's a SGL on the Susquehanna with basically a canal between the island and shoreline. He would have tried out the canal if he had bothered to take his gear with him.