Quote Originally Posted by castle View Post
how is cedar creek for crappie and bluegill? I fished there 1 time last fall and caught a lot of small crappie and small bluegill. Would like to try it again if it is worth my time.
the lake is full of < 9" Black Crappie, and the size limit has been removed. Also, the daily creel limit has been changed to the statewide regs ... 30/person/day. There are some big Crappie in Cedar Creek, but they're few and far between.
Bluegill & Shellcrackers (Redear Sunfish) are there in abundance .. and the statewide regs now apply to them, as well. Bluegill .. no size limit/no creel limit --- Redear .. 20/day/person & no size limit.
Channel Catfish still have a 12" size limit ... but no creel limit.
Bass .... same as before -- 20" size limit - creel limit 1/person/day

There's some good sized Shellcrackers in the lake, but shoreline anglers are pretty much destined to catch dinks.

Keep a check on this site : http://cedarcreeklakeoutfitters.com/blog/?page_id=79 for current fishing info (as well as here on Crappie.com/KY forum)

Not only did the Gizzard Shad make a comeback, in Cedar Creek, but there's also several species of sunfish there, that weren't supposed to be. I've caught or seen several, myself. The lake was supposed to only have LMB, Black Crappie, Shellcrackers, Bluegill, & Channel Catfish. It's intent was to be a Trophy Black Bass lake. The Crappie, Bluegill, & Shellcrackers were introduced as food fish, for the Bass & Channel Cats, with the hope that their numbers would be kept in check ... thus allowing a small percentage, of them, to grow to quality size. With the return of Gizzard Shad, all that went down the drain, as Bass prefer the soft finned Shad ... over the sharp finned sunfish. Good for the Bass ... not so good for the sunfish/Crappie. The jury is still out, as to how the Shad got in the lake. Some suspect they were introduced by people wanting to jump start the growth rate of the fish ... while another train of thought suggests that the eradication program, that the KDFWR conducted on the creeks, before it was impounded, just didn't kill out all the unwanted native species that were already there. I'm inclined to believe the second train of thought, since there's some sunfish species in the lake, that weren't stocked ... but are native to the creeks that make up the lake.

... cp