Otter Creek - Mercer PA, off of E. Cornell Road

Anyone ever fish in otter creek, off of rt 19 just North of mercer? Ive been hearing of guys catching 45in pike in there, but trying to figure out the right holes to fish in.

The creek doesnt look like much, but ive heard from more than one place guys have been pulling legit fish out of there.

Anyone have any info? Thanks.

ORIGINAL: Mikastorm

I,ve duck hunted there. Seen some carp and small cats, but never fished it.
Very mucky and don,t step out of the canoe.

My buddy and i fished there yesterday for an hour or so, caught a 16in largemouth and a small cat, so ya those are in there haha. Thanks for the input.

ORIGINAL: Pork

Never fished it myself....
But FWIW, just asked a guy at work from Mercer &
he said he caught his first & only northern in there.
22"er.

Thanks pork, i had a feeling you would have some info in it :D

ORIGINAL: outasync

ive fished parts of it in the past and caught a few small pike. no matter how shallow the water is cast along the shore looking for deep pockets.

What bait? I was thinking either chubs or throwing spoons.

fished in otter for all my life. There are lots of pike and yellow buulheads. Was north of rattlesnake a few weeks back landed 7 missed 1 the biggest was around 15. The biggest I ever got there was 29 but they average under 18.

caught a  bullhead and a largemouth the other night would like to know where these pike are being caught seems pretty ****ed up around corrnelll...if anyone knows this creek well hit me up id gladdy go with you fishing sometime :)

ORIGINAL: Ernie_420

went to otter creek last night. caught 1 small 1 off of tait road. fished there all and i mean all my life and never caught 1 bigger than 36 in there. i'm not saying there isn't a bigger 1 in there, but nobody i know has seen one that big. do you know how big a 45 in pike is?

You were there last night tooo? haha. See a silver toyota pickup around?

Me and my buddy caught a few fish each, went around to 3 or four spots. Ya man i know a 45in pike is a old girl, but ya did i see the pics.

Good local info guys thanks. 

i have got two forty inchers out of thear but most i get are around 20 inches i fish by the tubes mostly

haha ya i saw a pic of a guy who caught a 36 and 45 inch out of there recently i dont see how they get that big in there its dawmned up in multiple places

i fish coolspring 30 days a year and have never seen a pike caught.maybe there are some in the sections it is not stocked heavily w/ trout. i know they are in neshannock and otter. there would have to be a few in coolspring,you would think.

I have never caught a pike in Coolspring, but I have seen a couple in the delayed harvest area. I took the kids to the Neshannock last year for trout fishing. It was on the afternoon of the first in-season stocking. There was a pike hanging around in front of us for awhile. He was pretty big- 36+". He would leave for awhile but then would come back and hang out some more. We were in an area that the stock truck could have easily backed right up to the creek that morning- if you know what I mean. I couldn't help but think that pike ate pretty good that day! I have caught many pike in Otter creek, but never anything over 24". I caught a rainbow trout up by "the tubes" last year which I thought was kinda odd. I guess if the pike can go far downstream then the trout can go far upstream.

Bigben7 that is one of them. How to tell when the big pike are in there is there will be 5 or 6 cars parked on the road. Once the word gets out that some are in that hole people fish it 24/7 until they're caught. Another hole is near the bridge on scrubgrass road.