Mike Iaconelli, the 2003 Citgo Bassmaster Classic champion, will be at Dick's Sporting Goods in Robinson Towne Center from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday to promote the Classic, which will be in Pittsburgh next year.

Iaconelli will trade fishing tips with local fishermen. He grew up fishing the Delaware River and lives in Voorhees, N.J., 15 minutes from Philadelphia.

Catch of the Week

Rick Jackson of Ellwood City boated a 48-inch muskie on a 10-inch Jones bait in a sucker pattern on French Creek.

Weekly report

Erie: Scattered late-night and pre-dawn catches of steelhead are reported from the tributaries, though the Walnut Creek wall is getting crowded. Walleye fishing is starting to slow. Perch angling continues hot and heavy, especially 50 to 65 feet north and west of Walnut. Fish are being boated from the Ohio to the New York lines.

Allegheny River: Except for catfish, angling on the lower river is slow. Carl Aldridge of Curtisville landed a 36-inch flathead on a crawler in the back channel in Harmar. The Venture Outdoors Downtown TriAnglers landed a freshwater drum and a channel cat at the Point yesterday. Drum and white bass are reported in Sharpsburg. The middle Allegheny from Tiodioute to Tionesta has been fishing at its peak for bass.

Tionesta Creek/East Hickory (Forest County): Holdover stocked trout are being landed on streamers, zonkers and wooly buggers. East Hickory has been fishing well on terrestrials.

North Park Lake (Allegheny County): Jim Patterson of Cranberry Township released a 29-inch channel cat and three largemouth bass, 13 to 18 inches, on shiners Labor Day.

Ohio River: One angler landed an 8-pound walleye recently at Dashields dam but the fishing is slow.

Hereford Manor Lake (Beaver Lake): Nice catches of bass and good night-time catfishing are reported.

Pymatuning (Crawford County): Walleye have picked up. Anglers are jigging sonars in 18 feet in Snodgrass and Jamestown. Crappie are coming in the weedlines and around fallen trees.

Youghiogheny River: Bass up to 18 inches and nice numbers of trout to 16 inches are reported at Ohiopyle. A 19-inch brown was landed at Cucumber Falls.

Lake Arthur (Butler County): Hybrid striper are turning on. Anglers are picking up walleye, up to 25 inches. Largemouth are coming in the weedbeds and smallmouth off the stony points.

Lake Wilhelm (Mercer County): Holly Huff of Oil City caught a 34-inch tiger muskie on a crawler harness. A good crappie bite is reported in the main lake near the log boom and around I-79. Perch up to 12 inches are being taken in the bays. Skip Feigert of Hermitage boated a 21-inch largemouth on a hot n tot.

Glendale Lake (Cambria County): Brian Kline of Carrolltown and Mark Westrick of Hollidaysburg won the Patton Volunteer Fire Company tournament Sunday with a 12.5-pound, five-fish limit. Bill Lidwell of Altoona boated the 3.15-pound lunker largemouth. Matt Penatzer, 12, of Summerhill landed smallmouth up to 16 1/2 inches in Crooked Run Branch. Crappie, averaging 8 to 10 inches, are being caught in 15 to 18 feet. Perch are running 7 to 9 inches. One angler released a 48-inch muskie fishing the weedline between Prince Gallitzin Marina launch and Muskrat Beach. Walleye action is slow.

Clarion River (Clarion County): The lower reaches through Cooksburg are fishing well for bass. Try leeches, wooly buggers and topwaters in the evening.

Raystown Lake (Huntingdon County): Big plastic stickbaits are taking smallmouth bass up to 7-plus pounds. Striper are hitting up to 20 pounds just outside Snyders Run and around markers four and five in 20 to 35 feet on alewives and shiners.

Distant casts

Brothers Jim, Jack and Bob Roche and Joe Bohorich, all of Glenshaw, boated hundreds of bass, many more than 20 inches, walleye up to 18 inches, northern pike up to 38 to 40 inches and channel catfish 15 to 21 inches on the French River in Ontario last month.