Thread: A couple slabs

Fishing has slowed down the past couple of days on Leatherwood! We are still catching dinner though! I am glad I have this lake as an option since Beaver Lake is now the Dead Sea! Leatherwood is a good lake but it's small and it seems to go through spurts of good fishing than bad fishing.
Here is a pick of a few of todays fish. The one on the left was 15 1/2" the one in the middle (green carp) was 22" and the one on the right was 14 1/2".

Nice ones JT. Glad to hear your still getting a few!

Nice fish,hey J.T. explain BAD fishing for me

Originally Posted by buflew

Nice fish,hey J.T. explain BAD fishing for me

When people pay to catch fish and we don't catch enough fish to fit my standards!
It happens especially this year! It has definitely been one to forget!

Nice catch! Specks down south seems to grow bigger than the specks up here in Michigan. That fish you call a Green Carp is actually a Largemouth Bass.

Originally Posted by silverbasskilla

Nice catch! Specks down south seems to grow bigger than the specks up here in Michigan. That fish you call a Green Carp is actually a Largemouth Bass.

I didn't mean to offend you! It was fun to catch! And I cut it up for them , the meat was as white as paper.

Originally Posted by silverbasskilla

Nice catch! Specks down south seems to grow bigger than the specks up here in Michigan. That fish you call a Green Carp is actually a Largemouth Bass.

"Green Carp" is a nick-name we have around here for Black Bass when we catch them while crappie fishing. There are days though when we're real glad to have them show up! Right JT?

Do people actually fish for them?? If so there might be some way to commercialize it and make a few dollars.

JT,
With the color Beaver matching a southern dirt road for the past month did you ever catch any spawning crappie this spring? The spawn is over right? Also, have you ever spider rigged on Beaver before?

Originally Posted by brent

JT,
With the color Beaver matching a southern dirt road for the past month did you ever catch any spawning crappie this spring? The spawn is over right? Also, have you ever spider rigged on Beaver before?

The spawn has not started yet. I have caught a few small males in Hickory Creek and points south into the river in the flooded junk. I only caught one female and she was full of eggs. They were all bleach white and very thin.
I went to one of my deep holes the other day and graphed a ton of crappie in 54 feet of water down 40 feet. I don't think most of the crappie have even made that move to the bank. The water temp down there is probably still pretty cool without much sunlight penetrating that deep. They may still think it's winter and for that matter still night!!!
I have not spider rigged but several do on the upstream end of the lake.