Thread: Kayak Report Lilly Pond, not Crappie

Originally Posted by Ditch Basser

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Can you get there from the river?

Originally Posted by KD14

Can you get there from the river?

You can't get in there from the river

ditch,,notice they are all channels,,,,any blues there?,,,we did great last summer on blues with noodles,,,not too sure channels will eat our 'SECRET BAIT; but the blues sure do...will pm if interested,,,,

Lilly has the occasional Blue of Flathead, but it's 95 percent Channel Cats. That's one of the reasons I fish it.

Much like Crappie, the catfish doesn't spook since the kayak doesn't have a trolling motor making noise. I usually have the jug in my hand before the fish knows I'm there. The real challenge is where do you put 50 pounds of catfish in a kayak!

Originally Posted by Ditch Basser

Five boats in Lilly this morning fishing for Crappie, no one was catching.

I floated some jug lines for Cats, that was slow also, but I got 16.

The bite got a little better in the afternoon

I did it once outa a kayak on hatchet,,between current and wind it was like "herding cats"""",,,,the merc 50 lets us run 70 no sweat..

LOL, Lilly was high Saturday, but the water is normally only three to four feet deep in the summer and closer to two feet during the winter draw down. Your 50 Merc would be tossing a big muddy tail everywhere it went!

I put my Bass Tracker in there a couple years ago, the big motor never was turned on. Trolled it for 3 hours with the minnkota for 10 small crappie. It was a pain in the ass to launch at that make shift ramp. Kayak is the way to fish that place.

You could have launched and reloaded Saturday and ran the big motor anywhere you wanted.

The water high kind of gives the fish to many places to hide along the banks though. With the slough a couple feet lower the fish are more towards the middle and it becomes a spider rigging heaven.