Thread: Western Branch Report-Thursday

Windy and rainy. Of couse, that's just an observation from my Mountaineer. :D I just got back from a service call in Petersburg and stopped by the Suffolk lakes on my way home. Lake Prince is busting at the seams and overflowing it's spillway into Western Branch like I've never seen. Western Branch was down 2.9' just this past weekend but now looks to be nearly at full pool. I drove by the Burnt Mills spillway expecting to see it overflowing but surprisingly it was not. The best I could see, it is real close to being at full pool and will probably be overflowing tonight or tomorrow. This would be the first time it overflowed it's spillway since they closed the lake over three years ago. Oh well, I'll be out there Saturday to see how the crappie respond to all this rain.

hey tap i see you fish W/B lake a lot by your posts. do you ever fish the other suffolk lakes. i only fished W/B a few times for specks. i mostly fished their for the giant shellcrackers. i sure will be glad when they open burnt mills. do you ever fish the local rivers? or you just going for cititions. not many in our local rivers. tite lines JIM.B

Originally Posted by TapOut64

Windy and rainy. Of couse, that's just an observation from my Mountaineer. :D I just got back from a service call in Petersburg and stopped by the Suffolk lakes on my way home. Lake Prince is busting at the seams and overflowing it's spillway into Western Branch like I've never seen. Western Branch was down 2.9' just this past weekend but now looks to be nearly at full pool. I drove by the Burnt Mills spillway expecting to see it overflowing but surprisingly it was not. The best I could see, it is real close to being at full pool and will probably be overflowing tonight or tomorrow. This would be the first time it overflowed it's spillway since they closed the lake over three years ago. Oh well, I'll be out there Saturday to see how the crappie respond to all this rain.

Wow I was gonna say, you are HARDCORE if you fished this week lol

Originally Posted by ekim22

Wow I was gonna say, you are HARDCORE if you fished this week lol

I was thinking the same thing win I saw the thread title.

Originally Posted by jim.b

hey tap i see you fish W/B lake a lot by your posts. do you ever fish the other suffolk lakes. i only fished W/B a few times for specks. i mostly fished their for the giant shellcrackers. i sure will be glad when they open burnt mills. do you ever fish the local rivers? or you just going for cititions. not many in our local rivers. tite lines JIM.B

When I started fishing the Suffolk lakes around 1990 I only fished Prince. Years later I fished Burnt Mills almost exclusively but when it closed switched over to Western Branch. I've tried the Portsmouth owned lakes but without much luck. Not much of a river fisherman. Any yes, I'm after the big crappie. I'd rather have quality than quantity.