The Susquehanna river is an amazing shallow rocky cold water river the spans 492 miles from New York to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. It has to branches as well the west and the north branch that link to the main branch in central Pennsylvania where I live.
There are an amazing array of freshwater species from musky, walleye, smallmouth bass to the smallest of marginal madtoms and Tesselated Darters which I have on display in the current aquarium.
The river will stay at a pretty steady flow most of the year leaving most spawning activity to slacker pools or tributaries that shoot off of the river. Generally spawning takes place in the spring when the water reaches around 60° or so depending on the species. The Susquehanna is truly an amazing river not only for game fish but just the amount of small aquatic life throughout its echo system. The different bivalves and eels that help filter the river are also a really cool biodiversity it brings.
- GPS
- 40.8329353, -76.8348770
- Geographical region
- Northern America
- Drainage Basin
- Chesapeake Bay
- River catchment
- Susquehanna river
- Water body type
- River
- Water body name
- Susquehanna river
- Water body part
- Pool
- Water body course
- Middle course
- Water body: tributary of
- River
- Tributary name
- Susquehanna river
Videos above and below water
