Keystone State Park Lake

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mr.crappie
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2014/08/25 15:25:34 (permalink)

Keystone State Park Lake

A friend of mine was there this week-end & saw a guy catch an approx.30"+ Musky on a plug. The guy was throwing large plugs for Musky,he said that he catches a few every year.  sam
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    Re: Keystone State Park Lake 2014/08/26 12:28:57 (permalink)
    Fishing from a boat i assume?

    I'M ON A MISSION
    IM GOING FISHING
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    Re: Keystone State Park Lake 2014/08/26 16:22:36 (permalink)
    Its hard to believe that there is enough room in KSP lake to have a thriving musky population.  How deep does it get around the channel?
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    Re: Keystone State Park Lake 2014/08/26 18:36:02 (permalink)
    It was stocked with over 3k tiger fingerlings in '03. It was also stocked in '02 (250), '11 (250), '12 (400) and '13 (400) all tiger fingerlings. The deepest channel I have found was roughly around 20-25' and ran parallel to the shore starting in front of the 'new' boat rental building up till the drain near the dam.
    post edited by Chris Johnson - 2014/08/26 18:41:27
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    Re: Keystone State Park Lake 2014/08/26 20:34:26 (permalink)
    There were a couple of spots that were close to 28-30' there also. A couple of years ago the Keystone volunteers & the state drew the lake down & cleaned it up while putting a ton of structure including cribs etc. along both sides of the lake. In the spring I have watched those Musky fingerlings patrolling the shore line for smaller fish,it was really cool because they looked exactly like the bigger ones & learned pretty quick what minnows are for. Unfortunately the bass also learned what little Musky are good for also. BTW Jug, the guy that caught that one this week-end was fishing from shore. sam
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    Re: Keystone State Park Lake 2014/08/26 21:39:28 (permalink)
    Has the crappie fishing picked up since the cribs/ etc? I think I may have read or heard that ultimately that was the goal, ... Better crappie fishing throughout the year. I have picked up quite a few trolling spinners around the beach area. The numbers seem to be there just not exactly slabs.

    Before I had a depth finder, my buddy and I tried to anchor in that channel and were shocked at how deep it was. I kept a canoe there for about seven years, but don't anymore and don't make it out there as often.
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    Re: Keystone State Park Lake 2014/10/02 20:12:14 (permalink)
    They were supposed to stock the lake today. Anyone fishing here? I'm gonna come up in the next few weeks and put a hurting on em like I usually do. Take my boy out. Good chance to catch a big one there eventually they put some hogs in every time I was there for a stocking.
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