Me And Babler Are Headed To Loz For Some Crappie!

[Phil Lilley]

Will have video uploaded shortly. It's already on youtube and my facebook page. It will be on OA homepage in flash format.

sorry no video.

Here's a pic I shot for the heck of it. Didn't know how it'd turn out. Fairly nice.

[timsfly]

The video was great, we need more of them, keep fishing and keep filming.

[flyfishmaster]

The video was cool. I did not know you could actually get on the docks and fish. So I'm assuming these are public docks?

later,

FFM

[Phil Lilley]

I knew this would come up. Baber will have to address this cause I can't. It's his old stomping grounds and he said everyone does it up there- always have. If there's a sign on a dock that prohibits trespass, you don't go there but we only saw one set of three docks that had signs. We did fish one big dock that a lady manager came down to check boats. She asked how fishing was and was nice.

I thought it was unusual and felt uneasy but Bill assured me it was ok.

I did see one private dock with a welcome mat on the end of a stall- a place where someone would dock and get off to enter their dock.

[fishinwrench]

The video was cool. I did not know you could actually get on the docks and fish. So I'm assuming these are public docks?

later,

FFM

There are no "public" docks on the lake (except for the courtesy docks at the MDC access ramps). You need permission to set foot on any dock or you are risking being busted for trespassing. They nail a bunch of guys each Winter that way.

[ColdWaterFshr]

There are no "public" docks on the lake (except for the courtesy docks at the MDC access ramps). You need permission to set foot on any dock or you are risking being busted for trespassing. They nail a bunch of guys each Winter that way.

I was gonna say the same thing . . . .

The back patio of my house doesn't have a no trespassing sign, but that doesn't mean the general public is welcome, and I sure wouldn't want strangers cleaning fish on it. No harm done, but still. Unless Bill personally knows the owners of those docks, I would say it was definitely trespassing and you got lucky. Nice fish though!

[Tightline]

Another good,Phil and Bill show, nice crappies!

15 inchers,now thats a meat haul!

[Phil Lilley]

I knew this might get me (us) in trouble... it's one thing doing what we did and it's another doing it and then posting it on the internet. But...

I told Bill to check out the forum- that he had some questions to answer.

I did scrub the deck off REAL good- left the dock in better shape than we found it. Bill only cleaned a couple before he complained about his back hurting. We had a make-shift board and clean the rest on it.

[Phil Lilley]

The only way to catch these crappies WITHOUT getting out on a dock is to have a long crappie pole and reach in and drop a jig. But even so, it would be very difficult do so because of all the stuff in the way. There were docks we pulled into that stalls were open and you could cast up in and we did catch a few that way. But most stalls were filled.

I knew and know that docks are private and you should get permission... not making excuses here for our actions or anyone elses... but I'd think if there were that many docks on LOZ and there was a rampant problems with people getting off and fishing on these docks that there would be more No Trespass signs posted. Like I said- we only saw 3 on the same property out of hundreds.

Now read what I typed carefully before lambasting me.

[twosets]

Good report Phil.

My buddies down there said that the whites were going wild last weekend down on the little niangua. Other end of the lake from where you were.

Kind of funny that your first time on the lake you caught most of your fish off the docks. I have gone on some spring trips where some guys would not even use their boats, they were catching so many like you were doing off the docks. We use 1/16 oz jig heads and those bodies that have skirts. When they would stop biting we would just change colors.

Glad you boys did well