Beaver Creek 10-18-24

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

Good or bad I wish more people would post fishing reports.  I took my dad today it wasn't great at all. We trolled for walleye. Never had a sniff. Not even a pesky spotted bass. Went to Powersite, Little sketchy, the lake is as low as I have ever seen it since I've had a boat 11 years or so. Stay in the middle of the channel if you guys run up from Shadowrock. I swung a little too wide to give a kayaker a lot of room and I looked down when I cruising at 45 and could see the bottom. Kinda freaked me out. Caught one nice Largemouth on a Chappo and that is it.  We threw some ned rigs too but got nothing. Water temp right around 55 from Beaver Creek ramp all the way to Powersite... Beautiful day though , we saw 6 eagles, and so many of those black ducks or whatever they are. Hundreds and hundreds of them. I don't know my waterfowl like some of you guys.  

I did talk to a few guys on the docks at the marina and they said they probably caught 40 crappie by 11 but only 3 keepers.  Kinda makes me wonder about if the scope is affecting things. Usually on Bull I've never needed a bump board for crappie they are just always keepers.  I love my Live scope but man this year I have caught more short crappie than ever, especially over at Table Rock

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6 hours ago, aarchdale@coresleep.com said:

Stay in the middle of the channel if you guys run up from Shadowrock. I swung a little too wide to give a kayaker a lot of room and I looked down when I cruising at 45 and could see the bottom

Is there a bunch of steel sticking up in the middle just up from shadow rock?   I saw it last year when it got low.  Not this low though!   I saw pictures of guys fishing at the dam this week and it was unbelievable.   

[Dutch]

It is only 3 feet below the old power pool level.  I’ve seen it low enough that there was actually an island in front of the Beaver Creek dock and you couldn’t safely get above Barker’s Hole.  But that didn’t stop the walleye and whites.  
 

I quit going down there after they raised the pool level.  It changed everything for the type of fishing that we did.  Places that had been reliable for years no longer held fish and I just didn’t want to spend the time learning new patterns.