Fished Bluestone on 9-4-2009 from 0900am until 0700pm. My fishing buddy and I fished up the Bluestone River side for approx. an hour or so without a bite and then took off up the New River side and spent the rest of the day. We caught somewhere around 22 to 23 bass. All smallmouth except for one spot and a couple of largemouth. Most of our fish came on a greenpumpkin hula grub. We had to skip the jigs under low hanging brush and trees almost to the bank before we could get any bites. Caught a few bass on tube jigs (candy corn) color at the head end of the shoals. The rest of the fish came on greenpumpkin worms with a bright green tip on the tail. Mine was a straight tail and my buddy (Jeff D) was throwing a curly tail worm. Hope that this info is helpful on your next trip to Bluestone Lake. Our biggest fish was around 2#. We had a total of 12 or 13 keepers. Good luck and GOD Bless!

Water Temperature was warmer towards the dam. Only caught 1 smallmouth a little over 2 lbs near the dam on a spinner bait. Others were catching smaller fish jigging either soft plastics or jigs up towards the camp grounds in shallow water near the bank. The cold finally got the best of me and I left around 3:30pm.

Went fishing for whatever we could catch over the weekend. Managed to catch a few crappie 8 to 14 feet down on jigs and minnows. Saw some fish running tiny shad on the surface. Throwed at them with no takers. I believe they were smallmouth.

"Me and Bill fished Sunday most of the day and only caught two crappie, lost one. Caught the first fish (1lb.) on a large minnow in 31 feet of water and caught the second (3/4lb) on on a jigging spoon. Lost one about on the same size. The fish were not moving with the bait and couldn't tell when we got a bite. The water was very clear and calm, that may have made the fish a little spooky. The lake was down about 2-1/2 or 3 feet. Beautiful day though for late November, warm and sunny."

"Fished Friday morning with my brother in law Bill. We trolled crank baits toward the dam, no luck. Tried drift fishing live bait in 35 feet of water, one small(what looked like a white bass). Found some wood in 27 feet of water and jigged up 2 nice crappie on the bottom. Finished out the day by fishing for crappie over cover in 17 feet of water. Had a nice stringer of fish by 2:30pm, Sun finally came out, got hot, and went home."

Addendum to Friday report: My wife said I should I was holding back on info.We jigged up the two crappie on a Cotton Cordel Jigging Spoon. We caught the rest of the crappie on minnows.We also caught two bass and lost a nice one. One bass was caught on a pumpkin colored Eakins jig with a pumpkin trailer dragged across structure in 14 feet of water.

I was jus wondering what was the biggest Catfish caught out of the Bluestone lake?

WVDNR Report: Fishing on the lake is fair, but cold weather has curtailed fishing somewhat. Stripers and hybrids have been seen schooling and chasing shad occasionally still around the pit area. Try shad like lures and surface lures to garner strikes when they appear at the surface. No recent reports from catfish anglers. A new boat launch was recently completed at ‘the Pit’. The old launch was becoming silted in and will be off limits during the construction of the new bridge over the Bluestone arm of the lake. For more information call Corps of Engineers at 304-466-0156. Be aware that in the future, the access at the Pit will be reduced due to the construction on the Bluestone arm bridge. Construction equipment and trucks will be on the site, be safe and be aware of your surroundings while using the Pit area to prevent any accidents. Once the construction begins, inconveniences to anglers and users of the Pit area will be reduced as much as possible as problems are sorted out over time. The construction will last through 2016. Please be careful as mentioned, be prepared to possibly wait a little longer to launch and pick-up your boat, and be sure to be courteous of others. Please bear with State Park personnel until issues can be worked out as they develop.

The water temperature is 43 degrees at the dam and the lake is muddy today.

For Friday 5-27-2011: The Water Temp was 70 close to the dam and 67 to 69 from the rough water to the boat launch. The bass were about as predictable as the rain...on, off, on, off. One minute the rain would stop and the bass would hit crank baits, the rain would start the fish would stop biting. Then the rain would stop and the bass would hit jerk baits, but wouldn touch a crank bait. Normally at Bluestone, right before dark, the fish bass would feed hard then cut off at dark...not Friday...The rain had stopped, but the fish didn't feed like they normally do. Blame it on the weather I guess.

"Going down to the lake this week, any suggestions? thanks"

"Going down next week 3-28-11 any suggestions, thanks"

Addition to previous report - all fish were released so someone else can enjoy catching them -

5/19/09Picked up about a dozen large