Fishing Report For Glendale Lake, PA

By Rick Seaman

February 16, 2025

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Fishing Report Glendale Lake, PA

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Popular Fish Species Glendale Lake, PA

Largemouth Bass

Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

Bass are being caught from one end of Glendale Lake to the other, in decent numbers. In warmer weather, the concentration of brush in the back of Slate Lick Run, and the brush in Wyerough Run behind the Beaver Valley Road bridge, hold a lot of fish. The rip rap, and rocky shorelines along the east side of the lake are home to crawfish, and bass like to feed there. Many areas around the lake have submerged weeds, in 8' to 12 of water, which are often teeming with all kinds of bait and bass. 'A wide variety of lures are catching nice largemouth bass here, but many tournament anglers are spinnerbaits and crankbaits as primary lures. During slow times, when the bass are finicky, a stick worm, rigged wacky style, often teases bass to strike.

Smallmouth Bass

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

Glendale Lake is a very good smallmouth bass fishery. The rocky and rip rap shorelines are ideal feeding areas as smallies here eat lots of crawfish. The submerged weed beds outside these rocky shores makes a great holding spot. These weeds are also home to snacks like alewives, bluegill, perch and golden shiners. Shallow to mid-range crankbaits are a good way to cover lots of rocky shoreline. Tube jigs are effective when fished a bit deeper on these same banks. In Winter, the fishing is often very good for smallies on cold, windy, cloudy and rainy days.

Walleye

Current Report: Poor To Good
Outlook: Good

Walleye like to slow cruise around flats and structure close to deep water. Around Epply Island, and several other areas where the river channel runs close to the bank, are a good place to look for walleye. The better section of the lake is generally speaking, is from the Muskrat Beach area to the Glendale Lake Dam. Walleye love to eat small yellow perch, so when walleye are in 12' to 25' of water a blade bait or a swimbait is a good way to locate the fish. Once you locate a school, a drop-shot rig with minnow-shaped plastics is a good way to work the school. Walleye enthusiasts here report worm harness spinners, spoons and deep-diving crankbaits are also catching walleye while trolling.

Fish species to fish for...

Guide to fishing for largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, channel catfish, black crappie, walleye, bluegill, rock bass, yellow perch, bowfin, chain pickerel, muskie and northern pike at Glendale Lake in Pennsylvania.

Fishing at Prince Gallitzin State Park

Glendale Lake is a 1,600-acre lake, with 26 miles of shoreline, in the central part of the state. Numerous access points allow for shoreline fishing. The lake has nice populations of bass, catfish, walleye, crappie, perch and sunfish. If you are looking for big fish, northern pike, chain pickerel and muskie also reside in these waters.

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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".