T-Ville

[Jigboy]

Cancelled trip to KY Lake due to weather and fact that I am heading there next week for a week. Went to T-Vill and only caught 5 crappie but also caught 3 bass and 26 hybrids. None of the hybrids were huge (all around a pound or two) but my 13 daughter loved it.

[Locator79]

Sounds like you had a pretty good day with the condtions!

[CrappiePappy]

Cancelled trip to KY Lake due to weather and fact that I am heading there next week for a week. Went to T-Vill and only caught 5 crappie but also caught 3 bass and 26 hybrids. None of the hybrids were huge (all around a pound or two) but my 13 daughter loved it.

I take it you were longline trolling ??

Them "Hi-birds" are sure some fun, if you want some pullage :p

If you kept & cleaned the Crappie ... what was the condition of the eggs ??

... cp

[Jigboy]

Yes we long line trolling with Jiffy Jigs. I literally thought I was going to break a couple poles when those hybrids hit. They hit so hard it is hard to get them out of my driftmasters. As far as the crappie go, they were all black and all male. Found no eggs so I can only assume they were males. One went 12 inches and the rest were right around 10 inches.

[CrappiePappy]

Yes we long line trolling with Jiffy Jigs. I literally thought I was going to break a couple poles when those hybrids hit. They hit so hard it is hard to get them out of my driftmasters. As far as the crappie go, they were all black and all male. Found no eggs so I can only assume they were males. One went 12 inches and the rest were right around 10 inches.

Sounds like the T-ville Crappie are getting some size to them. A 12" male Black Crappie from T-ville is a P I G :p

I heard that the population was leaning towards Black Crappie domination ... and maybe that's why so many people think the Crappie at T-ville aren't doing so good ... they're still using the White Crappie techniques (much like the domination change scenario at Ky Lake).

:D ... ya gotta love them "hi-birds" when it comes to the smackdown hit they put on you !! I normally troll a crank n fly ... one pole - in hand ... and it takes me a second or two to make the distinction between snagging up or there being a fish on :D Even the dinks will jerk your arm around, when they hit.
It's good to know that they're coming back in size, too. It's been many a year since I caught, or heard caught, anything over the 15" size limit. Right about the time they were getting numbers of legals ... word got out that they could be caught on Chicken Livers ... and for several years afterwards, a 15" Hybrid was hard to find.

Was you trolling over your super secret brush piles

I don't know about anyone else ... but, when I used to get into the spawning Crappie at T-ville ... it was usually during the first part of May, & the fish seemed to be liking the 8ft depth ALOT I'm just sayin ......

... cp

[badbrad]

Not trying to hi=jack your post Jigboy, just wanted to share that the Hybrids on Barren are tearing it up right now as well on top water busting the shad. In case anybody on here wants to go after them.

Buddy of mine went on Tuesday night and caught over 20 with the two bigggest being right at 11lbs.

So, after work Thursday night he and I went back up. We fished from 1100 to 0300 hours and caught some nice ones. My two biggest were 9lbs 14 oz and 9lbs 1oz.





Going to try them again this week! To much fun not to!

[Jigboy]

Nothing I caught was even near that size. Actually, I am glad I didn't hook anything that bif because they would have taken my jig or broken my pole. CP, I trolled the "secret spot" you asked about and actually only caught one on a 100 yard drag but the wind was killing me so I pulled out of there. I fished all over the place but really got into the hybrids on the bank directly across from the dam. The front was about to push through and they just really turned on. Off the one point we crossed we hooked up on three bass. Two were small but one actually probably went 1 1/2lb. The water temp started at 65 and ended at 67. I am like you and believe things will pick up in the next week or two on T-Ville.

[danrclem]

Do any of you crappie experts have any tips for fishing Taylorsville for crappie? I'm am very crappie illiterate. I've been fishing for them at Taylorsville for several years but usually don't get to go that much. I go to Taylorsville because it's only about 15 miles from my house to Settlers Trace and very seldom go anywhere else. I've only had one good year catching crappie at Taylorsville and that was a couple years or so ago. Pappy might have given me a clue about early May because I figured the crappie spawned earllier up there and early May I've usually given up on the crappie.

I was laid off last week and netted one crappie a little less than 12" long in two outings of about 3 hours each. I threw it back because it was the only one that I caught so I don't know if it had eggs or not. We caught a couple cats, a nice bluegill and a 10" bass too. The surface water was a little over 67 degrees. I'm going to be laid off again this week so I think I'll try it again even though I have a long honeydo list.

[howferg]

Nice fish Brad , looks like it would have been some fun. I know Jigboy don't worry about catch crappie , if he isn't catchin they ain't bitein g

[JCCLARK]

I go to Taylorsville most every Friday, weather permitting, and sometimes
more. This past Friday was slower than the past and the ones I got
were smaller. The previous two weeks I got mostly larger ones,
a couple went 14" and most were over 11".
They haven't come in shallow yet.
The biggest mistakes crappie fishermen make at T'ville is fishing
to shallow, (mine are in 20' and deeper), and also staying in one place to
long. I generally never get more than 1 or 2 in a spot. Usually when I
get one over 10", I get it on the first or second cast and I can't get
another so I move on. If I come back in a couple hours, I might get
another. You have to keep moving to find them.
I use jigs and sometimes with minnows.
I think Taylorsville is harder now than ever, but the ones I get are
usually good size. That's a bad sign, not catching small ones like
I used to means they're not replenishing.
The DNR told me they were going to stock crappie on the lake
last fall-I hope they did