Thread: Crescent Lake

Fished Dead Lake and Haw Creek this morning. Eatin' leftovers tonight. Fished the banks in Haw and drug jigs in the Lake. Got a handfull of small fish each place - the largest was 10 inches. They all went back to grow up. Talked to several folks. One boat draggin 16 poles on Dead Lake caught 40 fish on one pass, but said there were only 4 keepers from the bunch. Didn't say how big the keepers were. Didn't see anybody needing to use a net.

Im planning on going to Crescent tomorrow for the first time. Not for sure if Iwill put in at the City ramp or dead lake ramp yet though. I'll be in a green z71 w/ Mississippi plates or a silverish/tanish G3 w/ Georgia registration, if you see me besure to introduce yourself. I wanted to fish the Fl crappie association tourny there today but I didnt arrive back in Lake City until 12:30 this morning so getting up and driving down was out of the question. Where is the best place to buy minnows?

They got em at the Dead Lake ramp. I think you may have to stop off someplace else for minnows if you launch at the Crescent City ramp.

To everyone who posted about the throw back, I feel your pain !!!
I bet I burnt 12 gallons of fuel Saturday running all over Cresent lake looking for Quality fish. And I wasn't fishing in the tournament.

To make a long story short, I ran up to the spot I thought they would be in, at 7:20 a.m. only to find 4 other boats in it with bow & stern lights lit. I'm thinking Damn they must have spent the night here. When I say I work an area hard I mean it, and I threw the tackle box at them. Nothing ....Nadda...Zip !!!!

Haul butt to spot No#2 and before I can get all the lines in the water bang...fish on. Small throw back but still better that location #1. Worked that area about 2 hours before I figured out all I was doing was feeding my minnows to yearlings. Total about 30 throw backs and a empty fish basket to show for it.

Pick up and haul butt again to spot No# 3. Same thing as location No# 2 catching fish but no keepers.
It's about this time I remember Toms post about catching fish and going home empty.
As I catch another small speck I look in the minnow bucket and see I'm down to maybe 15 to 20 minnows. Its at that time I become desperate and throw caution to the wind. I think everything location that has been working in the past few months have turned up empty. So I run to a spot that use to be Hot 3 or 4 years ago, but of lately has died off.

Well I'm here to tell you "Their Back" !!!!
14 keepers on Saturday from about 2:00 to 3:30 pm, and 22 keepers Sunday from 7:30 till noon.

Clyde

Persistance paid off for you with a nice mess o' fish. Don't think the fog ever lifed at my house on Saturday. How was it at Crescent?

Little fog on the lake early Saturday morning, but it helped me sneak out of the boat ramp with out being seen. Of course as bad as my first 3 spots turned out I guess I should have let the other boat follow me !!!!

Clyde

Nice fish. Glad someone found some keepers!

Tom

Don and I did Crescent lake last week. I have been too busy to post about it, but there isn't much to post anyway. It was a full moon, we caught 23 and only 5 were keepers.

Full moons are not the best times to fish. We quit early again and got back to Jacksonville well before dark. nice day on the water though.

Tom