Thread: Green

Originally Posted by chucky

Hey slabeye, thats not bad for eaters. 5 keepers per hour. One every 12 minutes. What depth did you target? Shallow 8 or less, mid 8-15 or deeper? Eldons dad went Saturday and he finished with 40. Half of them were 12-15 and a couple went 16 inches. What was the water temp where you were at? I won't get to go till next weekend. I have one more thing to do to the boat. If it works out the way i have it plan i will be down Friday to Sunday.

wow a couple 16 " crappie out of green.....hmmmmmmmm.....

Originally Posted by Rocketman

wow a couple 16 " crappie out of green.....hmmmmmmmm.....

You know what, Rocketman ... some time ago, a couple of buddies & I fished Green River Lake and caught quite a few 1-2lb class Crappie. They're definitely in there, but the potential for numbers of them .... well, that's cyclic, it seems. Couple two or three years of dinks & just keepers, then BAM ... Slabs that nearly rival KY/Barkley fish.

KDFWR 2011 fishing forecast for Green River Lake was "good/excellent" for keeper sized fish. That was before all the flooding. And, while the flooding may have put the screws to any appreciable amount of 2011 spawning ... it also kept most anglers from getting any major numbers of the bigger fish. That could translate into some even greater numbers, and size, of the spawning fish of 2012 Hands Clapping

... cp

There is quite a few slabs in green you just got to fish it alot and find them. We caught several 16" or better last year. We won the CKCA open crappie tourney last fall and the smallest fish we had out of 7 was just under a lb. We won big fish as well with 1.89lb. If your ever by green river bait and grocery stop in and look at some of the pictures kenneth has of some 17" crappie caught. Crappiepappy is right as well. two floods in two years. Next years crappie should be big pigs. Good luck

Originally Posted by Rocketman

wow a couple 16 " crappie out of green.....hmmmmmmmm.....

Green is fun to fish and you catch alot of fish but the size definitely does not rival Kentucky lake.

Originally Posted by crappiepappy

You know what, Rocketman ... some time ago, a couple of buddies & I fished Green River Lake and caught quite a few 1-2lb class Crappie. They're definitely in there, but the potential for numbers of them .... well, that's cyclic, it seems. Couple two or three years of dinks & just keepers, then BAM ... Slabs that nearly rival KY/Barkley fish.

KDFWR 2011 fishing forecast for Green River Lake was "good/excellent" for keeper sized fish. That was before all the flooding. And, while the flooding may have put the screws to any appreciable amount of 2011 spawning ... it also kept most anglers from getting any major numbers of the bigger fish. That could translate into some even greater numbers, and size, of the spawning fish of 2012 Hands Clapping

... cp

I know the slabs are there, I occasionally catch 14 and 15 inch fish. My problem is "occasionally."
I have good luck catching numbers of crappie year round on green, but lots of small fish. The warmer it gets the fewer big ones.
Can't seem to figure out the formula. Normally I am fishing pretty deep were I figure the large females would be most of the time, casting jigs.

The hotter the water the better the fishing at green....:D

Just remember, just because the water starts warming into the high temps that the crappie go deep. Green river lake has a thermal line at about 20 ft. in the summertime.

Originally Posted by colayn

I know the slabs are there, I occasionally catch 14 and 15 inch fish. My problem is "occasionally."
I have good luck catching numbers of crappie year round on green, but lots of small fish. The warmer it gets the fewer big ones.
Can't seem to figure out the formula. Normally I am fishing pretty deep were I figure the large females would be most of the time, casting jigs.

This is true.

Originally Posted by Rocketman

The hotter the water the better the fishing at green....:D

This is true. You can't compare the size of fish between the two. But if you took a part of kentucky lake(160,000 ac)to make it the size of Green river lake (8,210 ac) it would be darn close. Green needs a 10 inch size limit and a 20 limit per day as well. With as many crappie Green has if they did this, in about 3-5 years you would see the numbers of larger fish. But one could only hope for them to do that.

Originally Posted by slabdaddy

Green is fun to fish and you catch alot of fish but the size definitely does not rival Kentucky lake.