Lake Wylie Report 1/29/16 and 1/30/16

**Crappie Buster** · 02-01-2016, 11:22 AM

It was a couple of great days of fishing for us on Lake Wylie. It's always nice to get a change of scenery and Lake Wylie is a beautiful lake with plenty of big houses to admire when the fish aren't cooperating.

We started our weekend on Friday and left the house at 4:30 AM heading up to practice. It was smooth sailing on the trip up and we were fishing by 7:30 AM. The wind was rough Friday for us. Not only was it cold, it made boat control a issue. Even with the wind we caught fish long line trolling. The fish we caught came from Little Allison, Big Allison, Crowder, and Torrence. I didn't keep up with a total count but I'd guess we caught around 40 crappie. We kept 25 crappie, 5 black bass, and some nice perch. The problem with our practice day was we never found any tournament fish.

Saturday morning I was back up at 3:30 AM and we left my house at 4:15 AM. We fished Crowder to start with and finished up in Torrence. Same pattern as Friday with virtually the same results. No big fish. There were a couple weighers caught around us and we knew we were in the right areas but just couldn't get the big bites that you need on tournament day. We caught around 40 crappie again Saturday. Fish we were targeting were about 20 foot down in 25-40 FOW. The creek mouths were the place to be from our experiences. Best colors were red/chart, blue, pink, and orange.

It was a fun two days of fishing with some good folks in SCCA. Congrats again to Eddy and Amanda on finding and catching the big girls! Looking forward to trying it again at Greenwood in a few weeks.

Sunrise Saturday morning. We were sure thankful the wind wasn't whipping!

Friday's cooler shot of crappie

**brettw** · 02-01-2016, 11:35 AM

ThAnks for the details and congrats on the catch

**BigDawgg** · 02-01-2016, 11:41 AM

You were in the right spots. Sorry the big ones were hiding for us to catch later this week. LOL Glad you came up but wished we could have met up for a couple of pointers of other areas. Good report and thanks for speaking highly about our crappie hole.

**Inkdabber** · 02-01-2016, 02:27 PM

Can't win them all, but if you can't win you want to have a good day catching. Seems to be the case here. Congrats on your catch and results.

**SeaRay** · 02-01-2016, 02:43 PM

Sounds like two good day Derek, just not the big ones you needed. Man that 3 AM stuff is too much for me. I started just getting a hotel room in Rock Hill. Split with my buddy so about $35 each, not too bad, especially if I did not have to get up at 3. I can still do it, just don't want to any more. Part of getting older I guess.

**sinkermaker** · 02-01-2016, 04:27 PM

Thanks for sharing and glad that you caught fish. Maybe next tournament will result in better results.

**uncle remus** · 02-01-2016, 07:19 PM

congrats on a nice catch C B
I'm with Ray on that getting up at 3 am
I can still do it but I don't have to LOL

**OBRage** · 02-01-2016, 09:10 PM

Thanks for the report and glad y'all had a good time.

**STUMP HUNTER** · 02-01-2016, 10:03 PM

Good report Derek. Congrats on the 5th place finish.

**CrappieKidd** · 02-02-2016, 03:40 PM

Nice report and thanks for sharing. This time of the year you are longlinning. You use a 1/4 ounce weight to get it down. I am just learning this stuff. I am shamefully begging from a real pro.

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