| Eastern Allegheny County
Glade Run Lake (Butler County) was stocked on with trout on February 18, 2010. Everyone that has been fishing there has had great success. Over 60 anglers, families and friends came out to enjoy the sun and fish on Sunday alone.
A reminder to all anglers that trout season ends Sunday, February 28, 2010, except in select lakes and waters. Knowing where you are and where you are fishing is your responsibility. Please consult your 2010 Fishing Summary book or the trout fishing regulations section of the PFBC website for further information.
Southern Armstrong, Southern Indiana, and Northern Westmoreland Counties
Other than a steady group of ice anglers fishing primarily after stocked rainbow trout, there is little fishing activity in the district. Unfortunately, anglers that target "last minute holdovers" in local approved trout waters are probably not going to get much of an opportunity this year. Accumulated snow and ice will likely not be gone before those waters close to all angling at midnight, February 28th.
Eastern Armstrong and Indiana Counties
Ice anglers are catching good numbers of northern pike at Yellow Creek Lake, but most are in the 20 to 24-inch range.
Anglers are also catching northern pike at Hemlock Lake but they are small as well. Good numbers of trout are being caught at Hemlock Lake and there are only a few anglers there.
Not many bass seemed to have been caught through the ice in the past few weeks.
Greene County
A few anglers are starting to fish the Cheat River from the fishing pier at Lake Lynn. They are having some success catching walleye and sauger in the 15 to 17-inch range. The anglers lucky enough to be able to obtain live minnows to use for bait are having all the luck.
The Monongahela River had been full of ice, then it was high and muddy and it is finally gotten to the fishable stage.
Dunlap Lake has about 5 inches of ice covering it except for an open hole of water approximately 5 by 5-foot large at the pipes near Stoney Point Road. There have been a few anglers fishing the open hole and they are doing fair catching trout in the 10 to 11-inch range. Most of the catches have been on scented artificial bait. There has been very few anglers ice fishing the lake, perhaps because there was quite a bit of snow covering the ice. The few that have been ice fishing are doing fair, catching trout in the 10 to 11-inch range. Two anglers had fished from about 10:00 am until 2:00 pm and caught four. They reported catching them on mealworms.
Washington County
Anglers are ice fishing on Canonsburg Lakeand Cross Creek Lake.
Ice anglers are catching trout stocked at Canonsburg Lake on February 17, 2010.
Southern Westmoreland County
Donegal Lake, Mammoth Lake, and the Upper and Lower Twin Lakes were stocked last week with some fantastic trout.
The ice at Donegal Lake was not very solid and there was nobody fishing there.
Mammoth Lake appeared to have fishable ice and anglers have been doing well over the past week.
Twin Lakes had a good share of anglers recently. On February 18th, the day of stocking, several anglers were doing quite well on the upper lake and appeared to be taking a well deserved break from their day jobs.
Be careful and check ice conditions before going out. |