Musky fishing in Tionesta Lake Outflow

ive fished the outflow a few times.  as far as lures, just throw your regular 6" lures, gliders, jerk baits, bulldawgs, grandma. perch, sucker, or black are good.  i've seen guys catch them on live bluegills.  the biggest muskie i hooked was when I was fishing for crappies at the outflow, and it just tore up my 6# test.  you can also hit the holes down the creek all the way to the river.

That outflow is probably not even a mile long, and mostly shallow, trout-friendly water, and difficult access from the banks because of the thick weeds with the exception of a few small areas. Where it goes into the river, some sort of weird little dam blocks the river musky access to the trout snacks in the outflow.

There are a bunch of muskellunge in the deep lake, from one end to the other. Plenty of areas to fish on foot too with access to very deep water just a cast out. 
 
Where the outflow creek mini dam spills into the main river, you could fish around that whole island on foot. There's some deep holes near the tip too that you got a real good chance of getting lucky at.

I've fished all those areas by boat, and what I could of the outflow creek by foot, by far for me, the outflow creek was the least productive.

Thanks guys!  Much appreciated.  I currently don't own any Musky gear but I've been thinking about getting some.  Do you use wire leaders?

You're better off fishing where noone else does . Try tionesta ck up stream from the lake if you must fish those waters . Before or after trout season at that time there's too much forage LOL. Plugs work but the locals swear by using chubs in the deeper holes in mid summer . I personally like to fish for smallies & let the muskies mix in with my fishing . I run a 6" wire leader threaded into a 7" rubber worm with the hook set as far back into the worm as feasible in july - september . You wont catch alot but the opportunity exists . Landed a few lungs . Better yet fish the allegheny from franklin - emlenton my catch ratio is 3X higher there.