[Delawareriver]

Excellent post dakota and I agree 95%. As far as the two states, Pennsylvania is tough because they are native to western pa and it was hard to get some anglers to understand that they are invasive to the delaware, Schuylkill, and susquehanna rivers but need to bed managed in the western rivers. After several years of promoting removing them from the susquehanna and Schuylkill rivers the population kept growing at a tremendous speed both the quality and quantity of fish. So the pa fish commission knowing it was a lost cause have now started to state since there is no removing or even slowing them down that it would be more beneficial to manage them as gamefish. Keep a few if you wish to eat them (they are delicious) and release the rest. Now for what ever reason the delaware river is different as the population is growing but not nearly at the same rate as the other rivers. I know they are reproducing just fine as I see quite a few small flatheads while bowfishing but rarely see the flatheads above 5-10lbs. Which brings me to the only part i disagree with you as bowfishing I get to see a lot of fish native fish, gamefish, and invasive fish and the habitats they prefer and I can say a good majority of the flatheads we see up shallow are in faster moving water. Typically we see the most flatheads come late summer so I believe spring and early summer you may be better off targeting the slow deeper holes but come late summer shallow riffles and flats with moderate current can be excellent areas to target