Mouth of Birch
Mouth of Birch Birch River enters the Elk River at Glendon at milepost 80.7 (Elk at that point is 80.7 miles above its mouth at Charleston, the capital city of West Virginia). Birch has flowed 36.6 miles from its origin near Cowen and has dropped 1,525 feet in elevation for an average drop of 42 feet per mile. The state record musky was caught in this eddy by Lester Hayes, Jr in 1955. It was fifty-two and one-half inches long and weighed slightly over 43 pounds. A heavier musky has since been caught at Stonecoal Lake in Lewis County but the length record still belongs to this final eddy of Birch River. The former state record typical rack white-tailed deer was killed in a meadow above this eddy in 1976 by Doug Given, a nearby resident. It measured 182 3/8 as rated by the Boone and Crockett Club system.
