Quote Originally Posted by gopreach
It has been sometime since I have fished Cave Run for crappie. I know some years ago the crappie fishing was pretty good. Can anyone give me an idea of what it has been like the past couple of years and what the projections are for this year? Thanks in advance for any info you can provide.
It's been several years since I've been over to the Cave, Crappie fishing, but I used to make a mid to late April trip about every Spring. Most of my Crappie fishing, there, was minnow/float or casting jigs around standing timber. I usually launched at Twin Knobs, and headed up the lake towards Warix (left turn, out of the launch ramp bay). Used to do pretty good in Cassidy & Shrout Hollow (standing timber in back of these). Also did good along the rock cliff bank between them, out on the main lake, when the wind would allow me to fish it. There's an old roadbed that runs along that bank, and the Licking River channel comes right in on it at the mouth of Cassidy and the left point bank of the mouth of Shrout Hollow. Makes for a easy & short trip, for the Crappie, to come out of their Winter homes ... and ease on back into these two creeks.
I've also fished the timber in Caney Creek, but I think most of those trips were well after spawning time.
I didn't know much about the differences in habits, between the White Crappie and the Black Crappie, back then ... and best I can remember, most of what I caught was White Crappie. If the Black Crappie are there in any appreciable numbers, now .... one might consider going some weeks earlier than when I used to go
At any rate, whenever the water temps get 50deg and above, they should be on the move towards the banks (prespawn feeding). Keep an eye on the water temps & fishing reports, and go when you can. And, please do post reports on your trips !! ....... luck2ya ... cp