laker67 Posted March 31, 2011 Posted March 31, 2011 During this past week, AUE, has dropped the bottom out of our lake. Level tonight is right at 654. The crappie continue to do ok, but you can't catch a limit in 40 casts like you could 2 weeks ago when the water was still up at 657. Kdan and I continue to catch, clean, and give away crappie on a daily basis. It just takes longer to come up with a limit. You sure have alot of friends as long as the crappie are biting. In addition to crappie, Kdan is starting to catch some blue cats. They are pretty slow, but some nice fish. The one he had yesterday was the largest so far this year. Close to 25 pounds. In the past three years, he has caught several, 18 to 52 pounds, on rod and reel, right off the crappie dock. I usually don't do the catfish thing because it's to dang hard for me to cast that big glob of bait on my 5 weight.
Members FishinJack Posted March 31, 2011 Members Posted March 31, 2011 With this dirty water up grade your bait size. I'm usally a big fan of 1 1/2 tubes, but not with this water. 2 inch grubs with a curly tail has been doing it the last few days. Or even bigger grubs and baits are fine. They are shallow on docks and brush. Plus I'm marking all kinds of people's brush piles right now with the low water. I'm been fishing the mid-lake or lower lake section. Are you fishing up a river section? Those rivers can take a beating when they drop the lake like this. They have dropped it several feet in just a few days!!
laker67 Posted March 31, 2011 Author Posted March 31, 2011 Thanks for the tip. We will try out the bigger tubes.
laker67 Posted March 31, 2011 Author Posted March 31, 2011 The crappie continued to be on the slow side again today. Got to the crappie dock about 12:30 and Kdan was already there and catching my fish. We had a friendly wager on who would get their limit first. Of course I was 8 fish behind starting out, but I made up ground in a hurry. The wager was for a limit, and we both fell short. He had 14 and I had 13. He continues to catch some nice blue cats. Today he had a 17 and a 26 pounder. They are full of eggs and ready to spawn. Both fish were released unharmed. Kdan is supposed to post up some photos later.
Members kdan Posted March 31, 2011 Members Posted March 31, 2011 With this dirty water up grade your bait size. I'm usally a big fan of 1 1/2 tubes, but not with this water. 2 inch grubs with a curly tail has been doing it the last few days. Or even bigger grubs and baits are fine. They are shallow on docks and brush. Plus I'm marking all kinds of people's brush piles right now with the low water. I'm been fishing the mid-lake or lower lake section. Are you fishing up a river section? Those rivers can take a beating when they drop the lake like this. They have dropped it several feet in just a few days!! I actually downsized to a 1/32 oz and did quite well this morning. Not so well later in day though, didn't get any on 2 inch tubes.
Members kdan Posted March 31, 2011 Members Posted March 31, 2011 Well I am still trying to down load a picture with no results. Is it stupid me? or is it this dang computor?
Members kdan Posted March 31, 2011 Members Posted March 31, 2011 One more time, lets see what happens this time. Maybe its to big, pic is 2.24 mb and max single file size is 2.0 mb. I dunno, I give up for the time being. Maybe I need to catch smaller fish??? gee! lol!!!
Members CapnKenny Posted April 1, 2011 Members Posted April 1, 2011 I'm planning on coming down this weekend and bringing my 6 yr old son, I'd like to put him on a few crappie. What depth of water and how far down have you been finding the crappie? Right now it looks like a pretty nice weekend for our first trip out this year, 65 on Saturday and 79 on Sunday!
Members FishinJack Posted April 1, 2011 Members Posted April 1, 2011 What part of the lake are you fishing? Maybe get out and find all the brushpiles that have recently been exposed because of the low water. Use a Gulp! grub swim it high in the water column.
Members CapnKenny Posted April 1, 2011 Members Posted April 1, 2011 We'll be fishing the mid-lake area, thanks for the Gulp tip!
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