Ft Patricky Henry Lake musky?

[Wooden Arrow]

anyone know why this fishery was abandoned? i only landed one all the time i spent trying for them. but you could see them virtually every warm day in mid summer, lounging around on the surface (like the carp they hung out with) around Duck Island. see them, yes. get them to hit? i always expected for a few to show up below the dam. every other species of fish released in Patrick Henry ended down in the river too, why not musky? dang river is full of suckers, musky should flourish in there.

 

[Kevin Snook]

Back in the 80s when I hung around the BassN Shop there was an old gentleman that talked of catching musky on Patrick Henry in the spring with a lure he made.. He brought it in one day-was basically a piece of hoe handle with a hole through it that he had wire to a big treble hook and a squirrel hide on it.
Said he fished the bluffs and I reckon the muskies like to eat young squirrels..

Personally I've only seen one and it was down at the dam