Keystone Power Dam

went there in october drove from grove city and had to drive back home,water was really low couldn't put my 17 ft lund in.only small alum. boats could put in out on the on the piont.

The question is what is in there to catch....I never have an outstanding day there like I did when I was younger....hard place to figure out

ORIGINAL: slabdaddy

I used to fish this lake almost every weekend about 10 years ago. My friends and I pulled quite a few monster slabs outta there. We also caught some huge 'eyes. I found a stump field there and had a banner day on giant smallies too. However, it's been a long time since I've fished there so I'd like to see this thread continue so that I could get updates on what the lake is producing. For the last couple of years I've heard nothing but bad reports about Keystone. That's too bad because when I was fishing it, this lake was awesome.

I fished it a decent amount last summer, caught some Muskies, and smallmouth, but never got a walleye.


I went when I was younger and catching huge walleyes was easier than following a stock truck. I dunno what happened.

Loomis, that's strange. Maybe they don't reproduce there. Were the eyes stocked back then? I used to nail them off of the back side of the hump where it drops down to 40FOW. What about the crappie? Any slabs? I heard the muskie bite was on last year, but they were all little ones. Did you catch any legal ones? The finger/bay on the right side of the lake, right before the dam was always the place to catch the slabs.

I don't know anything about the smelt. I know it was full of shad though. They would boil the surface of the water in a 30ft diameter circle. I've never seen anything like it. There had to be millions of them in one school.

That sunken island is what we always called "the hump." That's where I always caught them. On Memorial Day last year, my friends caught a bunch of muskies there that were the same size as the ones you caught.

according to the fish comm. site, they are still stocking eye's at the power dam. 9500 fingerling and 750,000 fry in 2010
(http://pfbc.state.pa.us/pfbc_webgis/WWCWStockingDetails_historical.aspx)

we usually fish muskies from the launch to the shallow end.caught 2 around 36 and 38.seen 2 others follow all in one day ,only made it there 1 time last year the other day couldn't put boat in in october ' that sucks would like to fish it in october.