crappie fishing taylorsville lake

[linedrager]

anybody got any good info on fishing taylorsville lake for crappie, anything will help, thanks.

[wannabe fisherman]

too high too muddy and too full of trash

[CrappiePappy]

anybody got any good info on fishing taylorsville lake for crappie, anything will help, thanks.

Nothing "good" about T-ville ... seeing as how it's 44ft above Summer Pool - Louisville District Daily Lake Report

If/when the water gets back down to pool ... fish around any downed trees along deep shorelines that are in the shade (usually shaded from sunup til 11AMish) That is, of course, IF there's any left !! I used to do this, and was decently successful thru May & June. (but, it's been several years since I've fished there)

Poor T-ville has been flooded, bigtime, for most of the last 5-6yrs ... right at the spawning period for Crappie, in most cases. Recent reports, over the last couple of years, haven't been all that good ... probably the result of messed up/missed spawns from most of the years before that.

.. cp

[coach mark]

i have been told, correct me if i am wrong pappy, numbers are amazing, have to fish through some small ones to get keepers, but you will be busy with one pole, hard to fish two poles, never fished taylorsville, but intend to this yr

[TRACKER MAN]

Not to be mean but someone lied to you..... The Dead Sea I mean Taylorsville just has to much Shad and pressure. Not to mention it floods out every year before the spawn. I've only caught a couple keeper crappie there in the last 3 years. I would go to Green River Lake or Nolin once the water gets back to summer pool. So Early Spring 2012:D

[coach mark]

ty, now that you bring it up trackerman, seems like it was green river with the #s,

[TRACKER MAN]

I have had great success at Green the last couple of years.

[CrappiePappy]

Tracker Man is right ... about the last few years at T-ville. But, yeah .... back when I was fishing T-ville regularly, you could catch good numbers of keeper fish. And there were times when one had to wade thru the dinks, to get a limit of keepers.

I don't, however, agree that T-ville has "too many Shad". I've fished the lake since it opened (with the exception of the last several years) and remember when a 3-4 year old Crappie was 7-8" long and thin enough to almost see thru. Then Shad were added to the lake, and they became worthy of fishing for. I just think their cyclic nature has been interrupted too many times, with the spawns being flooded out, so their numbers are quite low.

As for Green River Lake .... if it wasn't a two hour drive to get there, it would be my 1st pick over all the other lakes within the same drive time. Other than KY & Barkley Lake ... Green River Lake has given up, to me & my fishing partners, more 1-2lb Crappie than any other lake I've fished (including Weiss & Watts Bar). But, it too can be cyclic ... producing dinks & "just keepers" for a year or two, then producing Slabs in numbers.

... cp