This lake is 30 mins from my house and I never fished it. The lake was built for the Pennsylvania Rail Road. The water from the damfeed the Wilmore Track Pans. There were 4 tracks on the main line and the pans extended 2,685 feet. The pans were using 1.5 million gallons of water a day. A scoop was installed under the water tender for the steam locomotive. It was lowered into the pan and the forward motion forced water into the tender.
The lake of course no longer feeds the water pans. However the lake is now open to fishing and is an electric only lake. The lake is feed with mountain spring water. It is a nice size lake. It is narrow and long. There are no houses or private docks. There is a great ramp and docks at the breast of the dam. The trees come down to the water and actually over hang. It's great if your good at skipping. The lake has crappie, walleye, northern and large mouth.
It was a warm sunny end of October day and the water was 50 degrees. The lake is loaded with underwater structure making it great for crappie. I started out slow as I initially struggled to figure out this new lake. I had no success fishing points or the structure. Then I put on a popper and started skipping under the trees. I'm not the best at skipping how ever after 3 hours and 21 large mouth I was an all star at it. This was a personal best for me with this many bass. I didn't get anything over 3 pounds but they were all over a pound and a half.
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