Old Town lake

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Originally Posted by crappiekiller870

It has been quite some time since I have been to Old Town. Can somebody tell me if there are places to park a camper for a weekend.

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Yes there are. You can camp at the store that is right in that big right hand curve past the school and the spillway or you can camp at Rudy Mauldin's bait shop. I have the number for Mauldin's somewhere. Mauldins has a boat ramp and a place to keep your boat on the water and the campsites are right on the water. The problem with it is that that hill coming off the road to the lake is a bit steep but I prefer it because of the bait shop. The camp sites at the country store do not have a place to leave your boat on the water.

went to old town yesterday, 3/10, with my dad. We managed 17 nice keepers. caught alot of small ones also. early we caught a few shallow in 1.5' of water then caught the majority of them in 2.5' -4' of water. When I cleaned them I noticed that they were all females and about half of them had already spawned. the others had bloody eggs so they were very close to. Hope this cold spell doesn't mess them up to bad. The water temp got up to 68.3

Good Lord!!! 68.3 degrees!!!!! Last Friday and Saturday it was only 58 degrees. The weather has cooled over there since then so that confuses me.:confused:

Confused as whether to go or not?

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Originally Posted by Gut Shot

Good Lord!!! 68.3 degrees!!!!! Last Friday and Saturday it was only 58 degrees. The weather has cooled over there since then so that confuses me.:confused:

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Originally Posted by fishingpox

Confused as whether to go or not?

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Not in that way Rusty. I will be there the weekend after this one. I am confused in how the lake temperature increased by 10 degrees in 4 days when the the air temperature was steadily declining. We fished there Friday and Saturday and the surface temp in the cypress trees was 58.7 degrees and the air temperature was about 75 degrees. Saturday night it rained and it got down to about 55 degrees. Sunday when I left that cold front was moving in. I am not trying to discount what mcc is saying, I believe him. I am just trying to understand how the water warmed that much (even at all) when the air temperature dropped steadily and the wind was blowing for the last few days. I always thought that those were the primary factors in water temperature other than an influx of fresh water. What am I missing? What could cause this? How hot did it get there on Tuesday? Educate me. The only thing that i know of that could have caused that was you were down there on Monday and Tuesday peeing in the water while you were fishing in your waders ;)

It confuses me to. I don't think that my fish finder was messed up but I guess that could always be a possibility. We were on the water at 7 am it was still dark. The low monday night only got down to 62 so there wasn't alot of cooling off that night. The water temp first thing in the morning was 64.5. Then throughout the day it warmed up some, with late in the evening the highest I seen it was 68.3. It wasn't getting below 67.5. I wandered the same thing. Would say maybe my fish finder is wrong, but with half of the fish having empty egg sacks I don't know if it is wrong or not. Talked to an older gentleman there that said we missed it by day. He said that on monday there were a lot of people wearing them out in anywhere from 1.5' of water to as little as 10" of water. I don't have any idea of there next movement after this cold spell, but it isn't gonna stop me from going next weekend! :D

I was there on Sunday & the water temp was about 60. We went back Monday & around lunchtime the water temp was 64 - I even asked my Dad (who was in another boat) what his water temp was showing - it showed 64 also. Monday was beautiful & the air temp got up to around 80. We fished north of Rudy's boat ramp - so that may be the difference in the north & south end of the lake.

I think people underestimate how fast that lake can warm up - things down there can change hour to hour. By the way, Tuesday was the full moon - if you believe all that lunar stuff! LOL

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Originally Posted by mcc

It confuses me to. I don't think that my fish finder was messed up but I guess that could always be a possibility. We were on the water at 7 am it was still dark. The low monday night only got down to 62 so there wasn't alot of cooling off that night. The water temp first thing in the morning was 64.5. Then throughout the day it warmed up some, with late in the evening the highest I seen it was 68.3. It wasn't getting below 67.5. I wandered the same thing. Would say maybe my fish finder is wrong, but with half of the fish having empty egg sacks I don't know if it is wrong or not. Talked to an older gentleman there that said we missed it by day. He said that on monday there were a lot of people wearing them out in anywhere from 1.5' of water to as little as 10" of water. I don't have any idea of there next movement after this cold spell, but it isn't gonna stop me from going next weekend! :D

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My brother (roll on this board) lives in Jonesboro also. He used to coach football at Nettleton. he and I fish Old town together most of the time. We expect to be there the weekend following this weekend. Maybe we will see you there. I will be in a camo boat with Alabama registration and a 25 Merc. Stop and say hello if you see us. It is always nice to meet my crappie.com brothers.

Who is your brother? I used to play and went to Nettleton.

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Originally Posted by LRJoe1

Who is your brother? I used to play and went to Nettleton.

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Mike Mathis. He coached there for about 5 or 6 years I guess until he got out of it last year. He has also coached football at Marvell Academy, Desoto ( West Helena), Helena ( Central), and Barton. He still lives in Jonesboro. That is him in the picture above. He is on the left. I'm the ugly one ;)