Thread: Grenada Fishing Report

I remember my father in law talking about green carp fishing and he said if you missed one it was ok, another would hit before the bait was retrieved all the way in. They crappie fished in the spring, not year round and they had something to fish around too.

Can you imagine taking the knowledge and equipment we have today back 50 years and see what you could do.


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Went to Grenada with my dad a few times on a friends house boat. The boat was an old barge made into a houseboat. It had a flat roof and that's where we fished from. We would pull up into the trees and tie off. Trees were everywhere and all of em had leaves on em. We fished with cane poles and minners. Some poles with bobbers and some not. Got hung up a lot and a lot of fish fell off due to the high lift to the roof. Seems like it was a bigun that always fell off. Didn't use nets. It was usually 4 or 5 people fishing and we caught a lot of fish. I don't recall ever seeing fish the size of what we get now. But every once in a while someone would say "oh that's a bigun". One of my dads friends weighed about 4 hundred lbs.. He would eat the inside out of a French loaf of bread and then fill it with a can of pork and beans and eat that. I tried to fish on the opposite end of the boat from him. There was a lot of noise and laughing up there on that roof with a bunch of men. Great memories from an 8 or 9 year old.

I remember that being the Green Door bait shop! But that wasnt to terribly long ago!

Erin, been 20 years I speck. Just wait till you get old!!!!!!

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Dad bought a telescopic 14' rod that the line went inside with the reel on the butt. We spent Easter weekend in Bruce. Traveled hwy 315 and stopped at Prophet's bridge on the way down. The water was high and we parked a good ways from the bridge. He caught 2 good size crappie then we headed on. The next morning we loaded up the car and headed to Grenada back waters along hwy 330. Nothing was biting. A game warden said the spillway was hot so we headed there. This was back when there were large boulders instead of the rocks like now. Our poles were set up with a float 2' from the tip and a minnow about 4' passed the end of the poles. Throw the line out upstream and catch a crappie when the float stood up. There were 3 adults and 2 kids, we filled a #2 wash tub.

4) Goes to show how much better women we're back then. She caught a mess of fish and managed to keep the baby too.

I remember when I moved there in the spring of 74, you could put in at the north end of Graysport, cut back over to old Hy 8 and go almost to Calhoun City. Turn around and fish back along the fence rows and old ponds and load the boat in no time flat. Trees were everywhere. I have a book of tales from that era, we may get in a story telling session one day, it would be a hoot..