Mon from clairton to kennywood

I used to fish the warm water discharge at irvin works for years, a good portion of my life but haven't fished it but once in the last several years. Plus lemme mention, i fished it from shore. But i know yrs back you used to be able to do quite well right around the warm water discharge itself. We use to toss fatheads & shiners either on pencil-bobbers or split shot rigs and work em right along the edge of the current. Use to nail quite a few nice gamefish (and other species as well) using this technique. Also used to fish below the lock in braddock which is right downstream from kennywood yrs ago as well, always did well there also using pretty much the same technique, seemed to do better there earlier in the morning, use to catch quite a few nice smallys & hybrids either in the shallows or not to far out from shore.

cool, is there any other close public launch besides elizabeth?

in front of the clairton works is real good for cats where the creek come out of the wall drive up to where it get shallow park the in like 2-3 ft and throw into the current

i never fished it i hear its good fishin for any species... i have a 09 tracker pro team 170 mod v with a 20 4 stroke, i luv it i was so surprised how well it handles rough water been on pymie when its been real rough and im sure lots of guys know what im talkin about and it handled it good.

should beable to look on commission web site under public boat launches and find one. however some of those dont exsist anymore i found that out the hard way.

Personally, would NEVER leave my truck at the Braddock ramp. Too much vandalism!

the PFBC put in nice docks and launches at South Side and on the allegheny in Sharpsburgh (and im sure elsewhere) why cant we update the elizabeth launch to have a dock and maybe fix up the launch a bit?? its the only decent place in that pool to launch and i hate going through the locks!!

the PFBC put in nice docks and launches at South Side

Sucks-they should of left it as is

Often launched at 10th ward on the Yough  in Mc Keesport and ran up to the Lock at Elizabeth.  Got as close to the bubbles as possible and caught lots of bass. Came back well after dark one night and interrupted a "party" at the ramp. Detected a little attitude problem.  12 of them and 2 of us.  Dropped partner and backed off the bank.  Partner had his .45 and cracked off 2 or 3 rounds and yelled back that he winged a big sewer rat and that he was reloading. Totally different attitude when he backed in.  They even offered to help us load