Taylorsville

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Originally Posted by crappiepastor

Hey Guys,
Thanks for all the help and well wishes. Good to hear from you. The info on the bait shops is great!

From your experience, do minnows or tubes work better at T-ville?

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from my experience nothing works on T-ville, but I'll keep trying. Out there Wed. tried tubes, hand tied jigs and minnows had 1 good bite and missed it.
Somewhere on here a guy said find the shad, find the fish. Well I found the shad in very large bait balls, I found the fish, I just couldn't find what they wanted to encourage them to get in my boat. :D almost forgot, spider rigging 4 poles 2 hooks each various depths. fish ranging from 10 to 20 ft in 30 ft of water.
and now I know why the store at the top of the hill isn't open in the early morning.

is there a place to buy minnows at Possum Ridge ?.....or just at settlers trace ?......

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Originally Posted by kybusa

is there a place to buy minnows at Possum Ridge ?.....or just at settlers trace ?......

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Settler's Trace (gas station) & the Marina are the only "close" places to buy minnows (that I've ever used) .... but, there may be some in the gas/groceries/bait stores along the roads surrounding the lake. I've always used the gas station/deli/baitshop, at the top of the hill where you turn into the road that goes to Settler's Trace Marina/ramp.

If you're coming in on 248 and Possum Ridge ramp is the closest one ... it's a tossup as to whether it's cheaper to drive on around to the gas station & get minnows ... or put in at Possum Ridge & stop at the Marina. I haven't bought minnows down there, at either place, in so long ... I'm not really sure about it. I normally get minnows here in town & transport them .... but, it's been so long since I've done that ... I'm not even sure the PDQ Market, here in Lex., still sells them. LOL !!
I'd venture to guess that both places on Taylorsville Lake, get their minnows from the same people .... so it's probably just a matter of selling price, and whether or not the Marina is open when you get there (and even has any minnows to sell). I think the Marina opens at 7 or 8AM ... and the Settler's Trace Gas/bait store opens at 5AM (someone chime in and correct me on that, if I'm wrong).

... cp :cool:

going to try T-Ville this Saturday... putting in at Chowning Lane boat ramp fish all the way down to Van Buren....spider rigged ......slow trolling fishing 8-12 of water in bout 20-25 ft

Know you will but be sure to let us know how things go at T-ville. Conditions and all. Thanks! Hope you run into some. Good news from T- Ville is always welcomed.

Taylorsville or Elmer Davis ...........been catching a few 10 -11 inch crappie out of Elmer Davis lately ...but , Taylorsville around Chowning should be hitting in 8-10 ft of water...................Decisions- Decesions

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The marina is closed so you can't get minnows there anymore this year.
They closed a couple weeks ago for the season.

I went to Taylorsville yesterday.
The water was 64 to 65 degrees.
It's black at Settlers Trace to about 2 miles up the lake
then it looks pretty good.
I caught 9 nice large crappies, mostly with monnows in the brush.
Some shallow, some in deep water.
Mostly up the lake past the black water.
Real scattered, only 1 at a spot at a time.

Thanks JC for the post about Taylorsville, that tells me not to take the wife there Sunday and go golfing instead.

Looks like Elmer Davis in the morning......

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Originally Posted by ugglyotter

Thanks JC for the post about Taylorsville, that tells me not to take the wife there Sunday and go golfing instead.

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Oh no! I didn't want to talk you out of fishing.
If you get only 1 crappie, that's still better than a golf ball to take home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(LOL)