Thread: T-Ville Report

Usually when I find a better bite with a larger jig body it's because the larger body is allowing the jig to fall just a little slower. Depending on water depth the fish are sitting in I may try using the smaller bodies with a lighter jig like a 1/32 oz. Where and how crappie bite seems to be an ever changing symptom.
3 weeks ago (here in Ohio)I caught everything on a 1/32oz jig & now the 1/16oz seems to be the ticket. Depth is all over the place from 1' -12' deep in 2-35 fow.

Very similar to my experience last week. I don't fish jigs often, but I couldn't get a look at a minnow. And they were a lot shallower.

I went Sunday. We caught 10 keepers. I caught a few 15-20 ft. Deep in a tree in 35' of water. Also caught 3 keepers off a lay down it 4' deep. I wanna know where the big schools are.

There used to be a big laydown coming off the bank close to Settler's Trace ramp, and it topped out at 20' deep. Most all of the year you could catch Crappie casting over top of the tree, and generally no more than 8' deep. I fished it from the bank, back in the days I didn't have a boat of my own, in the months of Dec & Jan.

I'd be there just after daylight, and the air temps would be in the mid 30's or so & maybe get to a high in the mid 40's. I fished over that tree with a 1/16oz weedless jighead & a BPS tube. I caught Crappie from the normal 8' depths over the middle portion of the tree, to deeper depths towards the top of the tree. One day I even caught them about 3' deep, right next to the bank where the trunk entered the water. That was quite the unique experience, but the most exciting part of it was that the fish "thumped" the bait just as hard as they would normally do in 70+ degree water ... and that water had to be in the high 30 to low 40 degree range!!

Unfortunately, one of the floods back many years ago moved the tree ... but, others have fallen and have their times when they, too, are being schooled around. They're just not accessible by walking the bank ... but, that's OK because I do have a boat, now, and can get to them. But, if it hadn't been for that one laydown, I might still be fishing jigs or minnows around standing timber, just like I had done for years before that laydown appeared.

Thanks for all the reports, and I hope you continue to go and post your reports ... good or not so good ... so that I and any others that can't get there at this time can keep abreast of what the fish are doing. We might just get a wild hair, one day, and take off and go at Taylorsville Lake.

... cp

Originally Posted by CrappiePappy

There used to be a big laydown coming off the bank close to Settler's Trace ramp, and it topped out at 20' deep. Most all of the year you could catch Crappie casting over top of the tree, and generally no more than 8' deep. I fished it from the bank, back in the days I didn't have a boat of my own, in the months of Dec & Jan.

I'd be there just after daylight, and the air temps would be in the mid 30's or so & maybe get to a high in the mid 40's. I fished over that tree with a 1/16oz weedless jighead & a BPS tube. I caught Crappie from the normal 8' depths over the middle portion of the tree, to deeper depths towards the top of the tree. One day I even caught them about 3' deep, right next to the bank where the trunk entered the water. That was quite the unique experience, but the most exciting part of it was that the fish "thumped" the bait just as hard as they would normally do in 70+ degree water ... and that water had to be in the high 30 to low 40 degree range!!

Unfortunately, one of the floods back many years ago moved the tree ... but, others have fallen and have their times when they, too, are being schooled around. They're just not accessible by walking the bank ... but, that's OK because I do have a boat, now, and can get to them. But, if it hadn't been for that one laydown, I might still be fishing jigs or minnows around standing timber, just like I had done for years before that laydown appeared.

Thanks for all the reports, and I hope you continue to go and post your reports ... good or not so good ... so that I and any others that can't get there at this time can keep abreast of what the fish are doing. We might just get a wild hair, one day, and take off and go at Taylorsville Lake.

... cp

I look for laydowns too.I will admit my brother has pushed me to fish standing timber more.And i have found some success there. There is just so much of it there.The laydown pattern is just easier for me to work through.Usually i like laydowns close to the river channel.Although the area you speak of is a half mile from the channel so that blows that pattern out of the water.Deep water close by though.I guess sometimes they are where they are.