FYI: This weekend is the Moraine State Park Regatta, and K.B.B.C has a tournament at the Harmarville Launch on Saturday.

I'm thinking about going to Kinzua next weekend, anyone have any pointers or boat launch recommendations ? 

eyesandgillz
Hopefully I'll have a couple salty pics to share next week....leaving Sat. for Emerald Isle but only staying until Wednesday.  Hopefully the weather/wind cooperate and we can get some toothy critters on the beach.  My son REALLY wants to catch a shark from the beach.  

Best of luck! Post up a report when you get back if you could. I hope you guys get into the sharks. Not sure if I mentioned in the other post on HPA but we did pretty well at the Radio Island public access on small flounder and lizard fish on power grubs. That would be a great to take a kid fishing as you don't have the waves to deal with. 

CTKsnowman
FYI: This weekend is the Moraine State Park Regatta, and K.B.B.C has a tournament at the Harmarville Launch on Saturday.

I'm thinking about going to Kinzua next weekend, anyone have any pointers or boat launch recommendations ? 

THANK YOU for posting.  This is huge in planning out the weekend!

CTKsnowman
I'm thinking about going to Kinzua next weekend, anyone have any pointers or boat launch recommendations ? 

I’ve camped up there a bunch and I’ve pulled some walleye, smallmouth and pike out of the bays.

Willow Bay gets alot of traffic but there is a nice launch there.

I’ve had better luck fishing when we put in at roper hollow and camped at Handsome Lake, although the roper hollow launch is super primitive. I like to hit the bays in that part of the lake - sugar bay, cornplanter run… I’m pretty sure that there is a launch at sugar bay.

I’ve never been to the lower kinzua creek section. I believe there are more access points and more structure in generally shallower water in that part of the lake. As you go further north, the main lake is pretty deep and featureless. If I was going to kinzua just to fish, I might start down in that kinzua creek arm. I believe there is a nice launch at Elijah run and maybe kiasutha as well.

I’d like to check out the campground at Morrison run one of these days. I’m trying to get up there in September.

MyWar
I’m not sure about this weather. The local forecasts don’t look that bad but that accuweather story makes it sound like I need to build an ark. I think we’re gonna get some rain but Im not convinced that we’re gonna get pounded. I guess we’ll see what happens in the next 24 hours. The river gauges all look great right now.

Looking at the radar, it does not look good for SWPA.  There is a huge storm stretching from Memphis, TN to Columbus, OH.  The entire thing looks to be heading directly at Pittsburgh.  Obviously, that could change with other upper level winds and other stuff that I have no idea how to read/predict.  But looking at it's current path and how much red is in the thicker cells, it looks like we are going to get HaM'Rd.
 

Yea it could just be wishful thinking on my part. Although I feel like the forecast for today is already way off. Like it was supposed to be cooler with more rain.

I finally ditched The Weather Channel app because it was so loaded with ads and bloatware. So this new Dark Sky app I’m trying out is pretty cool. It’s got detailed hourly forecasts with rain probability by the hour and expected precipitation amounts. Right now for Pgh it says about a 30% chance of rain between 3-7pm with like maybe .10 of an inch total for the rest of the day and not a whole lot more tomorrow. The app loads super fast too. The forecast north of I-80 doesn’t look much different.

I’m sure we’ll get rain at some point but hopefully not enough to blow the river out.

There does seem to be some sort of dry air over the region. When you watch the radar, many of the storms break up. I think the largest sections will be here over night. Typically daytime heat strengthens and night cooling weakens. Hopefully we hit it lucky and just some scattered pockets and no major soaking. Most of what I am seeing now is 50% on the hourly. So that is pretty typical of scattered and not the big storms. Those are usually 80%+ for a few hours on the hourly.

Welp… Forecast looks good through tomorrow morning at least. Just had a storm roll through with a lot of thunder but not much rain. Looking like scattered pockets at least this evening. On the radar it looks like more rain to the south and to the east.

We might get dumped on tomorrow afternoon but I’ll be happy as long as I get on the water for a bit tomorrow morning. If I do Sunday too I’ll consider that a bonus.

We got soaked here. Rumbling now, but not raining. The news showed flooding north too.. I’ll be checking the gauges tomorrow morning with fingers crossed. I’m not sure how much made it between West Newton and Yough Lake.

We got hammered here in Irwin.   Ill be on the road 430 am.  Hoping the rain isn't too bad out east and south.   Hate driving to the beach in the rain....