How Is The Bluegill Fishing In Little Dixie Lake?

[Greasy B]

I threw a Popping bug for Bluegill on Little Dixie during Prime spawning time last year. i got blown off the lake by a huge storm just about the time i got settled in and started catching fish. I've always wondered what i missed. Should i got back this year?

Thanks for any advice,

[Stoneroller]

Never fished it specifically for bluegill, but I did catch a really nice redear while throwing a beetle spin for crappie. Supposed to be a decent population of panfish in the lake. Lake sturgeon too.

[mhall02]

I think MDC threw a little bit of evertying in there, best I recall a monster paddlefish was caught out of there and there are some muskie as well. Caught a number of bass, catfish and crappie in there when I was at Mizzou, fun lake.

[Outside Bend]

There's some decent bluegill fishing in the lake, and the redear fishing in May can be spectacular- lots of fish in the 7-9" range. Small jigs & streamers worked in the shallow coves during the spring produce pretty well for them.

There's good numbers of black and white crappie, most around 7-8", but I've seen fish as large as 14" in there. There's a lot of largemouth, most 12" or less, but MDC has shocked a few in there over 8lbs, and one just a hair over 10lbs.

There's some weird stuff in there too, as mhall said- paddlefish, some very large blue catfish (20-30 lbs), a few lake sturgeon. They apparently tried stocking it with smallmouth as well in the 80's or early 90's, but had little success.

Good luck!

[Greasy B]

Thanks for the info, sounds like I’m going to have to try it again. As I recall the lake looked real nice and who knows maybe I’ll catch one of those bizarro fish.

The trip I made last year was on the day after I had my best ever smallmouth fishing on Big Piney. The river came up over night and my buddy and I needed a reason not to go home early. I’ll probably try to make it a combination smallmouth / bluegill trip. If a person times it just right those big redears will be all over a popping bug.