Thread: Need report on norfork lake crappie

Originally Posted by Peckerwood

Hey, thanks fellas, I need all the help I can get. Have not been able to get on any type pattern on Bull, since the lake starting falling 1.5 ft per day back in April. They left the banks, skipped the brush piles and ledges and staged who-knows-where. Do you think they might be down as deep as the pre-lake standing timber? Tried to fish it also but too deep to detect a crappie bite. I am on old-North-Miss lakes perch jerker and after 15 years still have not learned this deep and clear water crappie fishing but I plan to stay after it. I am beginning to think maybe they`r suspended out over deep water somewhere.

How deep is the pre lake timber? The deepest i've ever seen em is 40 or 50 feet. But that was winter and pretty rare I think.

I thought the lake was clear cut of timber before it was flooded.

Thanks faithfularcher, sounds like it should work and i will be trying that.

I alway thought using a float over 10 foot deep was very hard, but after reading this I may give this another try.

hey creekslick, you are right as i understand, but only from 50` and up at pool level.

hey crappie cowboy, it can be difficult if you are not set up right. Maybe we can get some help from out there. I have found some poles work better than others. I like a longer one with larger ceramic eyes. I think the trick is in the bobber stopper. I have tried several but stil notcompletely satisfied. I have heard of one you make with monofilament useing a figure 8 knot. I will be trying it next.

Originally Posted by creekslick

I thought the lake was clear cut of timber before it was flooded.

I can't remember any standing timber in the lake.
But then I usually fish the north parts of the lake.

I`m thinking that could be due to the lake being naturaly shallower up on that end, all timber may have ben cleared. that would have been back in the say, late 40`s or early 50`s. Maybe some of us older hands were here at that time and can offer info. In the shallow lakes of North Miss , such as Sardis and Grenada, all timber was removed except for the back-of-feeder-creek areas.