First time on Taylorsville 5-3-16

[Flootie16]

So all of the places here where I crappie fish are muddied up from the past few rains. Dad and I really wanted to go fishing but not waste our time. So after much debate and talking ourselves into it, we decided to finally give in to our friend and make the two hour trip to Taylorsville. And boy are we glad we did! We were very hesitant with the 15 fish limit. Thinking that the limit was so small because there weren't many fish. But we were definitely wrong!
We left the house at 430 am and after stopping at the local gas station by the lake and getting bacon sandwiches that we were told were amazing!(which is the case) We put the boat in the water shortly after daylight and after studying my echomap on the Garmin we took off to an area our friend told us to fish.
We set up to spider rig. And as we were rigging up the second pole, BAM rod tip buried fish on! It was a very nice almost 14 inch crappie! So after putting her in the live well we got all of our poles rigged before putting them out. And the action was great all day!
We caught fish as deep as 20+ feet and as shallow as 3 feet! They were semi scattered but very easily fishable.
We caught them mainly on minnow spider rigs. But we also caught several by casting jigs or minnows up towards to the bank near brush. The jig of choice for us appeared to be the Bobby Garland baby shad in monkey milk color. They weren't very picky at all on minnow size.
we had our limit by 11 but didn't want to stop fishing. So we culled until we decided to go in around 230.
We caught every bit of 70+ fish. Of all different sizes. Caught at least 50 legal fish. And the ones we caught that weren't 9 inches were mostly just barely under 9. We ended up throwing a lot of the pregnant females we caught back. Out of the 30 we kept, maybe 10 of them were females if that.
Most of the fish we cleaned were 10 inches or above. Our biggest was close to 15 inches. Had another as I said earlier just a shade under 14. And a couple right at 13.
Overall from what I have gathered, Taylorsville is an amazing lake. Reminds me of a mini Lake Cumberland. And as long as the state keeps the 9 inch minimum and 15 fish rule, this lake will be full of giant crappie in the upcoming years! And boy I can't wait!
Was planning on going to one of our local lakes this Friday, but we are definitely heading back to Taylorsville. We will probably experiment with different techniques this time. We didn't experiment much yesterday because there wasn't a need to. Don't fix something if it doesn't need fixed is my belief lol.