Piney Reservoir Clarion

Fished Piney on Friday for 10 hours. First visit. (Stupid fish)!! Wow! Judging by all the camps and homes docks or dock anchors, the Clarion is down at least 5 feet. It's so low that two enterprising owners literally mowed the underwater weed beds on their frontage makin' it look like a golf course. We pulled harness', a short time with bait rigs, but the majority of the time spent jigging. 3 channel cats, 3 walleyes, (barely legal but very fat), 1 little 5" perch caught on the stinger behind a harness, and one little small mouth. Beautiful lake, though. Crooked as a dog's hind leg and infested with tackle stealing snags, but I plan to hit it once more this fall.
BTW, almost every fallen underwater log has some type of big growths on them. I call them globules. Does anybody know what they are? I checked through hundreds of pics on Wikipedia, but didn't see anything that matched.
EMitch

E-Mitch I took my first boat ride on the waters of Piney Reservoir back in 1955 and remember like it was yesterday, seeing my dad water ski behind the boat and the big family cook-out on her banks.  I recall boarding the boat, owned by family friends, at a dock which was located on a dirt lane to the right at the Clarion end of the rt 322 bridge.  I believe then, as does now, the lane led to cottages along the banks on the lake but access to that lane is a bit different today.  I've returned on several occasions, this time launching my own boat at the two public launch sights and I have to say it was a bit of an experience.
 
If you have not already been there, you should return in the fall when the leaves are in full color....  absolutely beautiful.
 
As for the water depth, that is because of construction/repair to the gates of the dam.

Piney is a favorite with the "old shirtless hairy guys" strutting around in big boats running and gunning their big motors pulling screaming kids on a rubber replica of a rubber ducky but, that does keep them off of, Shenango River Lake.  
 
Summer fun time, not a good time to find a parking spot for vehicle and trailer either.  Tobys' launch on Fireman's Rd off of N. 5th Ave. in Clarion has limited parking and one dock but the road is in good shape to an from Clarion.  Mill Creek Launch out of Strattonville has one dock with a bit more parking but the trip down the mountain on Mill Creek Dr. (unless improved) might leave you with a trip down memory lane.
 
I've been on all of my area lakes but when the leaves are in full color, I've not found any quite as beautiful as being in the valley on the water of Piney Reservoir, it really is a time when one can forget about the stupid fish. 
 
A second plus with fishing Piney in the fall, less worry of getting run over with a rubber ducky.
 
 
Just this past Thursday, the wife and I passed over Piney on I-80 as we returned from a trip to Shanksville.  We both looked to take in what we could see which turned our conversation about the last time we fished between the hills.
 
Maybe see you there this fall.
 
 

Ok, BTDT. If I'm there with my boys, look for a blue Lund with a 90 and a 9.9 Merc on the back. If I'm there by myself, I'll be in a blue and gray Sylvan Backtroller with a Classic 50 Merc tiller on it. I'll look for ya.
I've got a week of vacation scheduled for the 3rd week in October, so the plan is to hit Piney and Shenango in that week, plus a little action on the Allegheny around the house here.