Thread: Beaver Dam State Park....worth it?

I claim no expertise on catching crappie out of Beaver Dam - but a couple years ago when I was up there in my little two man bass buggy - my son and I were throwing big minnow baits for bass out in the middle where the emergent weeds were coming up and I ran across a guy fishing with his son. They were a bit 'unusual' by comparison to most crappie tactics. They anchored off near one of the mid-lake weed lines and just scattered minnows all along that weed line. He said they don't usually catch many - but they're usually really nice ones.

I can't recall if that was mostly milfoil or hydrilla - or both. But I know the fish relate to those mid-lake weeds. And I think they are probably the preferred areas v. using the shoreline brush exclusively.

For my own part - my son caught a real nice 12" fat crappie on a Rapala Husky Jerk #14. So - apparently - I"ve been doing it wrong all these years - I need to fish with big stick baits for the nice crappie.

We also boated a lot of nice bass and even caught a very late (almost black) trout that was left over from the fall trout stocking. It was a fat 16"er

It's hard to fish that way if there's a lota wind - it chops up the water to the point where it's harder to see the weed lines.

Hope this helps ya out..


Hope this helps ya out...

Great park, horrible fishing