Thread: east fork beatdown comin

Thanks I appreciate the info. As you can imagine the river has been screwed up pretty much all year. I might have to take a road trip.

I fished EF with my dad last Friday (17th). The regatta was going on and they had the dam ramp closed but everything else seemed open.

Water was up pretty high. I think 6' over summer pool. But the water was really not that muddy, just a bit stained and it was less green than it was a few weeks ago.

A few weeks back we went to the coves and caught only dinks. This time, we started and finished on the open water, trolling with double-minnow rigs near the channel. We did pretty well til about noon. Caught 60+ fish. I caught probably 15 hybrids along with crappie. Nothing real big on the hybrid side though. They are chasing shad which are all over the lake and look to be about 2 inches in size. Many of the crappie were below 9" but I was able to keep a dozen around 10" or more. I think the best bet for keeper crappie at EF is open water. Almost all were caught about 8-12' down in 15-18' of water.

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