
Originally Posted by
davelee67
usually fish only the east end of the lake (from the macedonia ramp) but the last two trips have only got a total of ten keepers yesterday for the first time we launched at the dam and i agree that is a tough ramp to launch at without the docks the slope is very shallow and nowhere to easily beach your boat... having said that we launched around noon and by 12:30 we where on fish we found them with curly tails and then anchored and minnow fished for a couple of hours we easily caught 70 crappie and culled 28 good keepers ... fish were in 15 foot of water but suspended .. too deep or too shallow and they would not hit five or 6 foot down was about right ... we fished the whole area where we found them and they only seemed to be in that one spot .... we found lots of good cover but no fish... on a strange note i have fished east fork since it was filled and in all those years i have never caught a log perch out of east fork yesterday we caught at least 20 they seemed to be right on the back in very shallow water