Cannonsburg Lake

I might have a few hours on Sunday to sneak away from the wife and get some fishing in, Anyhow Cannonsburg is probably the closest lake to me.
Anyone fishing it? doing any good? ...thought about taking the waders and hitting the outflow area and if no luck trying the lake for crappie and gils
 
Thanks,
 
Jeff

olgerman

Don't forget about Little Chartiers Creek. Fished there about a month ago---there are still left over trout eager to eat.

Little Chartiers Runs from the out flow behind the dam to Chartiers Creek correct?

Thanks, hopefully there is some action this weekend. It'll just be nice to get out.

The creek through Lindenwood is Linden Creek. Canonsburg Lake was stocked recently and the creek below it( Little Chartiers Creek) got some too as did Miller's Run in Cecil. It's a good time to catch a big bass at Canonsburg with a big chub freelined to swim hooked in the lips(real fresh) or hooked through the tail if they spent a few hours in the bucket. Everybody is all grown up now, don't be shy use a big chub for a big bass. It's worth the time trust me

I thought Cannonsburg would be a waste of time a few weeks back.  So opted for Cross Creek, which turned out to be the waste of time...  I have been rather disgusted by Cannonsburg the last few times too.  It kind of feels like fishing the rivers.  I guess if they are stocking trout, the water quality is fine?

My last time, was below the dam.  The smell and foam floating in the water was very similar to that of the rivers.  There was a bunch of garbage in the stream too.  I have only heard of the water quality being bad, dating back to when I was a kid.  I can't say that I have ever seen anything in a report though.  I always figured, the PFBC would stop stocking with trout, if it was really bad.  I don't think crappie would be much of an issue.  They are kind of mid level on the food chain, so I would imagine they don't have as much toxins in them as bass, catfish or other larger predators.

it smells like all heII
the silt from the development up stream is horrible
i'll go there once a year and swear I'll never do it again... until i forget the next year

 
I'm still confused. Listed below are the PFBC stocking directions for Little Chartiers. If you google map these--it appears to be above the lake.
Little Chartiers Creek 2 PA 519 BRIDGE: Lat: 40.217039, Long: -80.139419 1ST BRG ON 1023 DST OF LINDEN: Lat: 40.236979, Long: -80.138349
DateWeek OfBrkBrnRbowMeeting PlaceTimeHatchery   04/23/12   X X     Pleasant Gap   04/30/12   X X     Pleasant Gap   10/01/12     X     Pleasant Gap 03/20/12     X X Park & Ride SR519 North approx. 3 Mi. off of Exit 25 I-70 1:15 PM Pleasant Gap
Commonwealth Inland Waters

i used to love that lake and outflow. if ever a body of water needed dredged its canonsburg. over the last 30 years the lake and outflow has silted so badly its like fishung a swamp.
what a shame.

Little Chartiers flows into Canonsburg Lake and out the other side. Just downstream of the lake it flows into Chartiers Creek, which goes on to flow into the Ohio.
 
I think the confusion comes from the fact that before it flows into the lake, Little Chartiers runs alongside Linden Creek Rd.
 
When in doubt, the map at http://fishandboat.com/county.htm is pretty useful.

Jeff there are musky in there, at least below the spill way. Go there after a light rain and stand on the wall and look up against the dam. I have seen a few there.

The guy I spoke to said he believes there is well over 150 still in the lake, how true that is who knows. Here's the recent Biologist report, gizzard shad are becoming a problem here as well. Explains all the small crappie I've been catching. http://fishandboat.com/images/reports/2012bio/8x06_29canon.pdf
~note~ no mention of musky...but with the increasing amount of gizzard shad, they may start stocking again.

There are no muskie there anymore the stocking quit because of no returns. They can't swim up little chartiers because of the dam in hiedelburg. in '76 and '81 we caught muskie and saw plenty more sunning. That slowly dwindled and it's been muskie free for years. Dutch Fork draining and fish rescue and relocation is a fine example of no muskie after years of stocking. The big tiger i caught over the spillway there years ago was an upstream runner from the ohio no doubt.
Fished Canonsburg spillway Sunday caught a few nice bass although the biggest (bout 18 inch, 3.5 lbs give or take) was caught on someone's bobber...line snapped hardware all over him i snagged the orange wooden bobber, eagle claw 4 snelled attached to a big brass swivel plastered with splitshot nice fish if you are reading this and lost him. He's back in there minus the hardware lol. Lake is silted bad, has been for years. Nice place to get a fish fix if you have the addiction and live close but still not on my list if favorites to fish after all these years. But there are some really big bass in there. The serious guys gave up on it but there are a few really big fish around. The only thing i'd eat outta here is the winter stocked trout.

Meatball

There are no muskie there anymore the stocking quit because of no returns. They can't swim up little chartiers because of the dam in hiedelburg. in '76 and '81 we caught muskie and saw plenty more sunning. That slowly dwindled and it's been muskie free for years. Dutch Fork draining and fish rescue and relocation is a fine example of no muskie after years of stocking. The big tiger i caught over the spillway there years ago was an upstream runner from the ohio no doubt.
Fished Canonsburg spillway Sunday caught a few nice bass although the biggest (bout 18 inch, 3.5 lbs give or take) was caught on someone's bobber...line snapped hardware all over him i snagged the orange wooden bobber, eagle claw 4 snelled attached to a big brass swivel plastered with splitshot nice fish if you are reading this and lost him. He's back in there minus the hardware lol. Lake is silted bad, has been for years. Nice place to get a fish fix if you have the addiction and live close but still not on my list if favorites to fish after all these years. But there are some really big bass in there. The serious guys gave up on it but there are a few really big fish around. The only thing i'd eat outta here is the winter stocked trout.

As far as NO MUSKY....I wouldn't say none, this guy I ran into fishing was telling me stories of catching them recently, ofcourse he could of been full of shiz, but he described a few places.
What time were you there Sunday, I fished the spillway for an hour or so around early afternoon. Nothing happening for me there. Missed something decent, looked like a catfish when it rolled over and The orange bobber wasn't mine lol, but walking around to different spots I prob found around 15 bobbers.
 
But I agree, I've only been fishing the lake because it's close, I live near Lebo it's a quick drive out 19. and I get my fix in. It's just fun to get out and fish.

TheBlueLagoon

Meatball

There are no muskie there anymore the stocking quit because of no returns. They can't swim up little chartiers because of the dam in hiedelburg. in '76 and '81 we caught muskie and saw plenty more sunning. That slowly dwindled and it's been muskie free for years. Dutch Fork draining and fish rescue and relocation is a fine example of no muskie after years of stocking. The big tiger i caught over the spillway there years ago was an upstream runner from the ohio no doubt.
Fished Canonsburg spillway Sunday caught a few nice bass although the biggest (bout 18 inch, 3.5 lbs give or take) was caught on someone's bobber...line snapped hardware all over him i snagged the orange wooden bobber, eagle claw 4 snelled attached to a big brass swivel plastered with splitshot nice fish if you are reading this and lost him. He's back in there minus the hardware lol. Lake is silted bad, has been for years. Nice place to get a fish fix if you have the addiction and live close but still not on my list if favorites to fish after all these years. But there are some really big bass in there. The serious guys gave up on it but there are a few really big fish around. The only thing i'd eat outta here is the winter stocked trout.

As far as NO MUSKY....I wouldn't say none, this guy I ran into fishing was telling me stories of catching them recently, ofcourse he could of been full of shiz, but he described a few places.
What time were you there Sunday, I fished the spillway for an hour or so around early afternoon. Nothing happening for me there. Missed something decent, looked like a catfish when it rolled over and The orange bobber wasn't mine lol, but walking around to different spots I prob found around 15 bobbers.

But I agree, I've only been fishing the lake because it's close, I live near Lebo it's a quick drive out 19. and I get my fix in. It's just fun to get out and fish.

I was there early morning...watched a great blue heron 30' from me nail a 9" largemouth in about 4 minutes after landing....and watched it wiggle in his throat as he swallowed it whole. Really cool being that close