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Nice Spring River fish.  Believe it or not a buddy of mine from high school owns bottom ground around in Mt. Vernon on Spring River and his older brother caught two big (trophy mount) rainbow trout out of the river.  That happened like 15 or so years ago.

Fished around Grosse Point and up into Cole Camp Creek both Monday and Tuesday.  Crappie were up in the creek biting on chartreuse jigs tipped with crappie bites under docks once the sun started to come up. Was working on a fast limit until a bass fisherman decided he needed to come over to take a look at us by driving across the creek. He got within about 50 foot under idle...once he saw a couple of fish picked up he hammered down and stirred up the water. Crappie shut down over the next hour.  Moved out the main channel and trolled some cranks. Picked up two decent Whites (returned unharmed) along with one keeper Walleye.  On Tuesday went back to the spot where the crappie were picked up and had three keep. Trolled again the main channel and had one flathead brought in that would have gone about 10 pounds. He was turned back to grow. 
None of the crappie had eggs.... looked like the spawn is either over or has slowed down significantly. 

Fished around Grosse Point and up into Cole Camp Creek both Monday and Tuesday.  Crappie were up in the creek biting on chartreuse jigs tipped with crappie bites under docks once the sun started to come up. Was working on a fast limit until a bass fisherman decided he needed to come over to take a look at us by driving across the creek. He got within about 50 foot under idle...once he saw a couple of fish picked up he hammered down and stirred up the water. Crappie shut down over the next hour.  Moved out the main channel and trolled some cranks. Picked up two decent Whites (returned unharmed) along with one keeper Walleye.  On Tuesday went back to the spot where the crappie were picked up and had three keep. Trolled again the main channel and had one flathead brought in that would have gone about 10 pounds. He was turned back to grow. 
None of the crappie had eggs.... looked like the spawn is either over or has slowed down significantly. 

Crappie fished Cole Camp Creek area both mornings of the 15th and 16th. Caught lots of small males  (20+) with 5 keeper females. The males seem to be biting early with the females moving in closer to the banks around the 8 AM timeframe. They were hitting rubber jigs under the cork in around 8 FOW with the jig set roughly at 5-6 foot. TOW on the finder had the water upwards of 70 degrees. Water was being moved fairly fast out on the main channel but seemed calm up in the creek.

Crappie fished Cole Camp Creek area both mornings of the 15th and 16th. Caught lots of small males  (20+) with 5 keeper females. The males seem to be biting early with the females moving in closer to the banks around the 8 AM timeframe. They were hitting rubber jigs under the cork in around 8 FOW with the jig set roughly at 5-6 foot. TOW on the finder had the water upwards of 70 degrees. Water was being moved fairly fast out on the main channel but seemed calm up in the creek.

Crappie fished Cole Camp Creek area both mornings of the 15th and 16th. Caught lots of small males  (20+) with 5 keeper females. The males seem to be biting early with the females moving in closer to the banks around the 8 AM timeframe. They were hitting rubber jigs under the cork in around 8 FOW with the jig set roughly at 5-6 foot. TOW on the finder had the water upwards of 70 degrees. Water was being moved fairly fast out on the main channel but seemed calm up in the creek.

Crappie fished Cole Camp Creek area both mornings of the 15th and 16th. Caught lots of small males  (20+) with 5 keeper females. The males seem to be biting early with the females moving in closer to the banks around the 8 AM timeframe. They were hitting rubber jigs under the cork in around 8 FOW with the jig set roughly at 5-6 foot. TOW on the finder had the water upwards of 70 degrees. Water was being moved fairly fast out on the main channel but seemed calm up in the creek.

Agree with LVN2Fish.  There are plenty of species there. I have a place at 81 as well and did decent yesterday with crappie. The key is to get out there. It took me a while to figure out that area. Be sure to not be bashful and fish close to the docks. Its not illegal to cast around them. This tends to be the area that the bass/crappie tend to hang out around. Walleye I have only caught trolling out on the main channel.  Feel free to PM me as well. When spring hits the level will be real low until about a week before Memorial Day and everything is basically mud.  But there are some rock areas at the first turn in Turkey Creek...during the summer it turns into a party area on weekends is the only problem.

Fished around the Cole Camp/Turkey Creek area. Caught lots of small crappie but ended up with 7 that kept. Found all fish on the backside of docks in shaded areas early in the morning in 8 FOW. Water temp was 81.  Used minnow tipped chartreuse plastic jigs. Most fish caught were in the 9 inch range but all those kept were 10+ with the largest at 13.  They didn't hit hard.

Fished around the Cole Camp/Turkey Creek area. Caught lots of small crappie but ended up with 7 that kept. Found all fish on the backside of docks in shaded areas early in the morning in 8 FOW. Water temp was 81.  Used minnow tipped chartreuse plastic jigs. Most fish caught were in the 9 inch range but all those kept were 10+ with the largest at 13.  They didn't hit hard.

Fished around the Cole Camp/Turkey Creek area. Caught lots of small crappie but ended up with 7 that kept. Found all fish on the backside of docks in shaded areas early in the morning in 8 FOW. Water temp was 81.  Used minnow tipped chartreuse plastic jigs. Most fish caught were in the 9 inch range but all those kept were 10+ with the largest at 13.  They didn't hit hard.

We fished MM 1-6 yesterday and found fish to be hanging around main lake docks in the 15-20' range. They seemed to be oriented near the cross bars of docks an the support cables on the wind blown sides. Needed at least 30' of water under the dock to hold fish. They were finicky though. We'd only catch 2-4 per dock even though the graph showed it holding a bunch of fish. 23 keepers was the best we could muster. Bait color didn't seem to matter. I checked several secondary point docks with 25' or more of water, but didn't find much of anything

I won't be out on the water until the weekend after next. I'll post a report on what is going on in Turkey/Cole Camp Creek.

Depends on the water. The best lure I've had is either a #9 FlickerShad and my personal favorite is using a Road Runner with a leach on it. Hot N Tots have worked as well.  Trolling is the best rout with the cranks, but I have really had success with leaches. The Stockton Forum has plenty of guys who are Walleye experts that I have really learned by reading their posts.

I have had zero training in managing flood control thru hydro electric dams, but I am 100% confident that I could do a better job of it.  
Hell the last generation of ACOE and GE higher-ups handled it just fine, even through the floods of '93-'95, and never to my memory had everyone perplexed about what in the holy f*** they were doing.
I guess the question to ask is.....What factor is involved now that makes us "dumbasses" have concerns about the retardedness level of the ones in charge these days?     Surely there is something that us regular people just don't know.....and why does that something have to be a secret?   

Here is my setup.


The flanges and pipe are either 1.25" or 1.5" and the bar is 2x1" stock. The rod holders are 1/2" Monsters. It's stout as can be and removable.

Here's a couple videos of them in action.
 
 

Launched the boat on Saturday morning at 8 AM...trolled #9 & #7 FlickerShad at 2.2 MPH in about 25 FOW. Didn't get a bite. Went back out an hour before dark and targeted brush against the docks using live minnows with slip bobber set to suspend them. Caught several small channel cats as well as a couple keeper crappie. Most of them hit with about 15 minutes until sun down. Went back out yesterday morning at 6 AM and targeted the same docks using the same technique.  Mostly short crappie, but at about 8:30 after the rain stopped got on top of some whites that were aggressive.  Only was able to stay on them for about 10 minutes but caught 5 of keeper size.  Overall seems like it picking up in the early morning and late evening.

These guys have pretty much reached the limit of how fast you can travel on water before you take to the skies.
It's becoming a sport where it's not whether you're gonna die.....but when.   Pretty stupid IMO

We got on the water a little after 6 and left before 12.  We caught fish on spinnerbaits, worms, swim baits, and grubs. We fished on the main lake down to Hawker.  We also fished in sons.  We caught 20 bass.  5 keeper greenies and 11 keeper spots.  No big fish but no dinks either.  Here are a couple of green fish and a nice spot.

Got the chance to fish both the early mornings and evenings around MM81.  Caught several keeper crappie and catfish around the docks and my nephew nailed this solid walleye the morning of the fourth off of Gross Point.  Crappie were hitting live minnows just above the brush, catfish were hitting dead minnows and cut shad in the same area.  The walleye was taken using a #9 flicker shad trolled against the current right at the shelf above the main channel.


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Got the chance to fish both the early mornings and evenings around MM81.  Caught several keeper crappie and catfish around the docks and my nephew nailed this solid walleye the morning of the fourth off of Gross Point.  Crappie were hitting live minnows just above the brush, catfish were hitting dead minnows and cut shad in the same area.  The walleye was taken using a #9 flicker shad trolled against the current right at the shelf above the main channel.


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Got the chance to fish both the early mornings and evenings around MM81.  Caught several keeper crappie and catfish around the docks and my nephew nailed this solid walleye the morning of the fourth off of Gross Point.  Crappie were hitting live minnows just above the brush, catfish were hitting dead minnows and cut shad in the same area.  The walleye was taken using a #9 flicker shad trolled against the current right at the shelf above the main channel.


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Got the chance to fish both the early mornings and evenings around MM81.  Caught several keeper crappie and catfish around the docks and my nephew nailed this solid walleye the morning of the fourth off of Gross Point.  Crappie were hitting live minnows just above the brush, catfish were hitting dead minnows and cut shad in the same area.  The walleye was taken using a #9 flicker shad trolled against the current right at the shelf above the main channel.


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2013 Lowe Stinger 175 poly camo..... in beautiful grassland.  Perfect for both fishing and getting to those hard to reach hunting spots.