Beaver Creek Ramp---Thursday

[nxs]

Heading down thursday and hoping they'll be running some water.

Has anyone been fishing around there recently??

We were lucky enough to find some crappie just before the last rounds of weather hit and kept us home and they were shallow at that time.

[nxs]

Noiced as we left the Beaver Creek ramp the water temp was 40* down 6* from our last trip. Headed to where we had fished before and still showing fish. Hooked a good crappie (about 12 fow) shortly after getting there but it released it's self at the boat.

Caught a lot of short blacks and stayed there way too long.

Finally moved off and got into a few crappie and lots of blacks later that afternoon.

We had just 4 but they were 12" to 14" and I lost count of the blacks with one that was 14-1/2"

These were all caught on shiners that we got at the (new ?) bait shop in Forsyth.

The first were caught in about 10fow on the bottom but the rest were in 20fow about 6' down using the shinners and bobbers.

As the sun started down the bite pretty much went with it.

[Phil Lilley]

What structure were you targeting? Bluff side or flat side? We would have gotten down that far if we didn't have boat trouble.

[nxs]

Basics mostly. Just looked for places they could hang out with the current running and snag a meal going by.

We fished both sides with some success but in the late afternoon we noticed they moved more out into the current getting ready to move up after dark I guess. Also as it got later into the day they wanted the shinners to be drifting with the current.

If I had not been so stubborn and moved on earlier we probably would have ended up with a nice mess of crappie.

Wish I could handle the cold better would really like to be there after dark.