kinzua report

fished the lake saturday.was 94 degrees the day before. started out with night crawlers just to get feel . and i never switched rock bass 4-8' bass 8-25' & a few nice white bass. big fish were rock 8" bass 16" white 16".   casting , trolling, deep jigging no wake bouy at mouths of coves.

I didn't use to fish the tailrace for many years, but would take one trip and year to try it out.  Then I heard people do good from the tailrace down to the bridge in Warren.  Past 3 years I've drifted in the boat from kinzua to the bridge and have did good for trout, but not too many bass.  The few bass you catch are nice.  Lot of smaller trout most 8-11 inches still fun to catch.  The one drift between the 3 people in the boat at least 35 of them.

going down friday and will give it another try. Looking for a walleye and a fun northern pike!

fished the lake for two days. fishing was tuff , lake water level was down and blue bird sky. did manage to catch some fish. mostly smallies,rock bass and some big perch. trolling with planer boards and casting lures & bait. fished east branch clarion lake on saturday for the first time. the lake is super clear and very deep saw depth of  118' plus the lake looked to be down 30 feet. caught some very nice bass on a silver bomber plug. saw some big fish chasing my lure. i could not make out what type of fish .

I just started using boards, and found them easy to us. i bought medium size boards . and use 10 - 20 lb braided line, which got my lures down 25 ft. plus.  I am going to try them on crappie in local waters.

Walleyes and silver bass with a few northern's is what is getting caught morning and evening.  Beautiful sight Kinzua is right now. Have fun

thanks for info. the weather forecast is cooler temps and rain showers. sounds like good fishing weather .

Well my first trip to Kinzua was a huge bust!  So much for for decent weather & some decent fishing.  It rained heavily pretty much all day Friday and Saturday, which wasn't the worst thing since the wind didn't slow much below 25 mph all weekend!  Fished Friday afternoon and Saturday afternoon for about 2 hours each day, or should say tried to fish-with the wind and rain it was about impossible to drift or fish with the electric, and anchoring wasn't much better.  Was shocked to find the lake down about 15 feet and no docks in place, which didn't make it fun unloading and loading the boat.  Needless to say, I didn't catch a **** thing!
Anyways, might be a sign that it's time to put the boat away for winter.  Just really wanted to get a few trips out on the new boat.  On the bright side, the new boat handled the choppy big water without much fuss.   I really need to get that kicker motor on it, as I found out the big Merc 150 idles alot too fast for trolling.  Was also lost as to where to fish on the lake, for it seemed like an endless flat across the lake without much structure.  Oh well, maybe next time I will have to get out earlier in the year and check the weather forecast more closely.