West Branch Reservoir Ohio Fishing

Westbranch Resevoir has some HUGE Ski's in it. Also holds a few Giant Striped Bass. You can cast some of the feeder creeks such as Jay Lake or Silver Creek with White-Bass Style Spinners. You'll get walleye, pike, and bass but most of the muskies caught out of there come when bass fishing. Make sure you have a steel leader too. Muskies bite right through ordinary line. I use 1 ft. steel leaders. So a big in line spinner bait would work good. Jerk baits work well when casting. Big Spinners like cowgirls work good too but you won't get many walleye or northerns when throwing those. It'll mainly be ski's. You can also pull suckers behind a 1oz. slide sinker with a 2/0 circle hook through the suckers lip. Keep your speed pretty slow. Just enough to move and keep the sucker on the bottom. When a musky hits. Let it eat the sucker for 10-20min pulling line off of the reel when the fish runs. Key is that they don't feel tension. Then reel down and set the hook driving the hook through the corner of the mouth. This method works year around. Also trolling in the fall off of the dam face or through schools of baitfish works good. Deep diving minnow baits such as little ernies, rapalas, reef runners, tail dancers. Etc. Anything that runs like a big shad or shiner and troll it through the bait schools. Hope all this helps. If you have anymore ?s. Go to Ohiogamefish.com. Might get a little more feed back. Tight Lines!!! These were some fish from last fall we got in Wisconsin doing the sucker technigue. Planning on doing that this year at Westbranch

Its been over 20 years since I last fished WB. I will see if I can dig up an old fishing buddy that still lives in that area and see if he will post.. Good luck..