Fishing Report For Beltzville Lake, PA

By Rick Seaman

February 6, 2025

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Fishing Report Beltzville Lake, Pennsylvania

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Popular Fish Species Beltzville Lake, PA

Largemouth Bass

Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

Tournament anglers report catching bass on a wide variety of lures in Beltzville Lake. First thing in the morning, and throughout the day in shaded areas, bass are attacking topwater baits. Vibrating jigs can be used to fish around cover, and often fool bigger fish. During slow times, when the bass are finicky, a stick worm, rigged wacky style, is still catching bass.

Walleye

Current Report: Poor To Good
Outlook: Good

Walleye in Beltzville Lake feed on small fish and baitfish, especially alewives. Anglers preferring artificial lures use lures that mimic alewives. Walleye like to slow cruise around flats and structure close to the river channel and deep water. They primarily feed close to the bottom, When walleye are in 12' to 25' of water a blade bait or a swimbait is a good way to locate them. Fan cast and cover lots of water. Once you locate a school, a drop-shot rig with alewives or minnow-shaped plastics is a good way to work the school. Locals report spoons, deep-diving crankbaits, and worm harness spinners are also catching walleye while trolling.

Striped Bass

Current Report: Good To Very Good
Outlook: Very Good To Excellent

The fishing reports for Beltzville Lake are showing good numbers and size for stripers. Stripers feed on alewives, so swimbaits, jerkbaits, crankbaits, spoons and other bait-imitating lures are having success. Being successful at fishing for stripers is a matter of locating schools of bait, and wolf packs of stripers are likely to be nearby. Fish finders are a big help in locating these roaming schools. Live bait and cut bait are also effective here.

Fish species to fish for...

Guide to fishing for largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, spotted bass, channel catfish, flathead catfish, blue catfish, black crappie, walleye, brown trout, lake trout, white perch, yellow perch, striped bass, chain pickerel and muskie at Beltzville Lake in Pennsylvania.

Beltzville Lake is a 950-acre lake with nearly 20 miles of shoreline, open for day use only. The lake offers a wide variety of fish species to pursue. Bass, crappie, walleye, catfish, trout, perch, striped bass, muskie and chain pickerel all reside in this quaint lake, located in Beltzville State Park.

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Rick Seaman is a fishing enthusiast with over five decades of fishing experience, a retired tournament fisherman, author of numerous published articles on fishing, and co-author of the book "Bass Fishing - It's not WHAT you throw, It's WHERE you throw it".