CHuck I really dont know what happen to the Fish. I fished thru there before there was a lake fishing the river. Caught good Crappie. Started fishing the lake once it was ready.
Back then you would catch a bunch of 8 to 10 inch Crappie. You didnt see then Crappie fishing like today. F&W put a size limit hoping to make it bigger Crapie lake. My thinking could be wrong. When they put hybrids in kind of hurt the Crappie. They love to eat Crappie. I dont know. I dont know what it will take to make the lake better for Crappie.
I use to fish Green River lake a bunch also. It is just about the sameway. You will catch a bunch of small fish before catching a 9 inch keeper.
I go to Ky Lake first of April each year. This year will be second week because got some work to do before i can go. We stay till mothers day. We catch Crappie there. Seems like you will catch a 10 inch keeper about every 3rd fish. With the Carp issue there really hurt the Crappie. But Ky Lake is a bigger lake with river systems feeding it. My thinking there is that helps on Crappe numbers. Tville has Salt River to feed it and not as big as Ky Lake which may not help Crappie much. I dont know just my thinking.
YES its fun to catch Crappie but like to catch a mess of keepers once in a while to.
PAPPIE I have noticed that to. You will catch Whites right in with the Blacks at Tville. Me either dont understand that. Other lakes you will catch Blacks first of the spwan then the Whites right after. With the fishing pressure the last few years Tville i believe it has hurt Crappie. Same with Green River lake to. Dont know what it will take to fix it.