Fishing Report For Cross Creek Lake, PA

By Rick Seaman

January 14, 2025

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Fishing Report Cross Creek Lake, PA

Fishing Reports

Popular Fish Species Cross Creek Lake, PA

Largemouth Bass

Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

According to reports from the 2024 Major League Fishing event at Cross Creek Lake, vibrating jigs and plastic worms accounted for a good number of the bass caught. Fishing a vibrating jig is a way to cover lots of water quickly, and slow fishing a plastic worm can entice bass out of tight cover.

Bluegill

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

According to reports by local anglers, fishing for bluegill at Cross Creek Lake has been good for many years. These scroungers are always looking for something to eat. Bluegill fishing is as basic as fishing gets. Use light line and a bobber to set the depth you prefer and you're in business. I prefer small pieces of nightcrawlers for bait, on a #8 hook.

Black Crappie

Uncle Buck's Panfish Creatures Curly Tail Minnow Rigged

Current Report: Poor To Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

Crappie fishing has been decent in Cross Creek Lake. Ardent crappie anglers report that Spring is the premiere time to be on the water as crappie move into shallow areas to spawn. Docks, brush, wood, lay-downs, vegetation are a good place to cast small crappie jigs or live minnows. Light tackle with 4-pound line is ideal. Fish finders are a great way to locate schools of crappie, which tend to stack vertically around cover.

Fish species to fish for...

Guide to fishing for largemouth bass, channel catfish, black crappie, white crappie, bluegill, redear sunfish, yellow perch and saugeye at Cross Creek Lake in Pennsylvania.

Cross Creek Lake offers a handicapped fishing dock, provides a big bass program, and offers several species of fish to pursue. It is a 250-acre lake, with about 7 miles of shoreline, in the southwest corner of the state. The lake features quality fishing for saugeye, crappie and bluegill. Bass and catfish also popular here. Access to the lake for fishing from the bank is available in several areas.

Primary fish species to catch

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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".