Seneca Creek State Park

[Josh]

Has anyone fished either Clopper Lake or Great Seneca Creek within the park?  I am headed up there this weekend with some friends and I thought I would bring a rod with me.  I figure I can use it if we get a canoe to go out on the lake or I can wander off and check out the creek at some point as well.  If you know the lake/creek, I'm wondering if I am better off bringing my 5wt. or 3wt. rod when I go. 

Thanks!

[John Hammill]

Don’t know about Clopper Lake, but GSC holds bows and probably browns and definitely smallies, depending on where you cast. Check out the state of MD’s DNR site. They’ve got a great map about where streams are stocked with rainbow and golden trout.

Have fun!

John in DC

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On May 25, 2018, at 1:11 PM, Josh <joshua.fr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Has anyone fished either Clopper Lake or Great Seneca Creek within the park?  I am headed up there this weekend with some friends and I thought I would bring a rod with me.  I figure I can use it if we get a canoe to go out on the lake or I can wander off and check out the creek at some point as well.  If you know the lake/creek, I'm wondering if I am better off bringing my 5wt. or 3wt. rod when I go. 

Thanks!

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PS. Bring the 5.

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On May 25, 2018, at 1:11 PM, Josh <joshua.fr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Has anyone fished either Clopper Lake or Great Seneca Creek within the park?  I am headed up there this weekend with some friends and I thought I would bring a rod with me.  I figure I can use it if we get a canoe to go out on the lake or I can wander off and check out the creek at some point as well.  If you know the lake/creek, I'm wondering if I am better off bringing my 5wt. or 3wt. rod when I go. 

Thanks!

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[Alexander Vu]

Greatb Seneca Creek is really a bass river. They stocked trout there about 2-3 was ago but it gets fished out pretty quickly. Clopper  Lake has bass there but it hides pretty deep and right at drop offs. If want to fish the lake, you will need a sonar to find the drop offs. You should bring rod that allows u to cast a 300 Grain full sinking line, like an 8 wt.

Alex

On May 25, 2018, at 1:11 PM, Josh <joshua.fr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Has anyone fished either Clopper Lake or Great Seneca Creek within the park?  I am headed up there this weekend with some friends and I thought I would bring a rod with me.  I figure I can use it if we get a canoe to go out on the lake or I can wander off and check out the creek at some point as well.  If you know the lake/creek, I'm wondering if I am better off bringing my 5wt. or 3wt. rod when I go. 

Thanks!

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[Carl Z.]

There is a canoe put in that on the other side of the lake from Black Hills Regional park.  If you fish the shoreline around there, there is good bluegill and bass fishing, evening.

I talked to someone who has mapped the bottom of the lake with his high end depthfinder.  There are a lot of sunken forests with good cover, but it is much better suited to traditional bass gear with a boat with a depthfinder.  The fingers of the lake hold fun fish, but not the 5lb lunkers that hole up in the deep water.

Make sure you buy the canoe sticker/pass since they do check for it.  

Carl

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On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Alexander Vu <alexan...@gmail.com> wrote:

Greatb Seneca Creek is really a bass river. They stocked trout there about 2-3 was ago but it gets fished out pretty quickly. Clopper  Lake has bass there but it hides pretty deep and right at drop offs. If want to fish the lake, you will need a sonar to find the drop offs. You should bring rod that allows u to cast a 300 Grain full sinking line, like an 8 wt.

Alex

On May 25, 2018, at 1:11 PM, Josh <joshua.fr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Has anyone fished either Clopper Lake or Great Seneca Creek within the park?  I am headed up there this weekend with some friends and I thought I would bring a rod with me.  I figure I can use it if we get a canoe to go out on the lake or I can wander off and check out the creek at some point as well.  If you know the lake/creek, I'm wondering if I am better off bringing my 5wt. or 3wt. rod when I go. 

Thanks!

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[Tom Moran]

My office is adjacent to the park/creek, just north of 270.   The creek generally has low populations of fish due to extreme unmitigated current during flood events - it just gets scoured badly.  However, there are LM bass, sunnies and suckers in any pool.  Downstream there are SMB.   A year ago a colleague of mine hiked downstream a ways below 270 and found where LARGE trout had been stocked, and his sense was nobody was chasing them.  They are not going to stock far from a road, that's for sure.