Thread: Hey crappiecrazed

Originally Posted by toomanycasts

If you haven't already, give Craigs a try. Good creek/large bay especially if your in a smaller boat. They have a ramp in the creek too. Makes it nice if the river is rough. Never crappie fished it, but I'd bet a jiggin pole there's some good ones in there

I actually fished Craig's last year. I scouted it one winter and had to try it because it looked so good.
We did catch crappie, though most were short fish. It is surprising just how shallow that entire area is though. I'd say 10-12' is the max depth in the area. But 5-7' is a far more prominent depth. One fun thing about Craig's was that I got to try dock shooting. I hear so much about it on the reservoirs down south that I wanted to try it. There are lots of docked boats on Craig's and I did actually catch my best crappie at the docks there.

Went today two diff creeks.... One was a smaller creek.... Went about a half mile up the creek and was blown away by what I saw.... Water temp 44-45!!! River still 52-54.... I tried a few spots figuring that wasn't gonna work.... Watched graph on the way back out... Mouth was 51 so figured I try it. It was shallow caught one dink jig and corking... Decided to go in search of bigger creek perhaps not such a water temp difference from river... Found it but my usual spots I got a handful of dinks..... As I headed up creek I decided to play with my settings on my graph and noticed I was in 400 klhz so decided to try the 800 setting... Geez I been missing out! Went over several of my usual spots not spotting any dots but I knew it would pick them up as I ran by a few small bait balls that were clear as a bell so I just kept searching... Went by s tree that I have fished several times with zero luck most times.... Man I stopped the screen and was counting each individual fish... Turned around and caught 7 out of that tree and 5 of them were good ones... The pics are the same fish.... Tree was in 16 ft of water fish were in the branches a foot or two off bottom.... Not a very good day but learned some stuff.... The fish in the pic was caught at a different spot and had some color but the others were as white/silver as you could imagine... No colors at all! Figure those fish have been deep a while... All on jigs. Odd color combo to brown and chart. All white crappie all day

I meant my setting was on 200khz and I switched to 400

Good Post.
I have the Miami River right in my neighborhood. Never heard anything about crappie being caught though. But I plan on trying it for myself. Never know, it might be the Mother Lode.

Originally Posted by CrappieCrazed

Yes I have... Meldahl pool the past few months quite a bit..... Side imaging deep brush/old trees.... Been working pretty well...all on jigs..

Craze not sure but sounds like your fishing Brush Creek. you may want to try Cabin Creek, or the one i like Three MIle Creek. i have also done well in Bullskin & Locust Creeks. the fish are not as deep...

Originally Posted by mbk

I am in Markland pool. I actually live in Florence, KY so I will usually head down U.S. 42 to put in either at Big Bone or Gunpowder.

mbk like toomanycasts said you may like Craigs Creek it has alot of docks. from Big Bone its not far down river, if you go be sure to try Turtle Creek a cross the river...

Where can a map be seen of the creeks?>

they are on my lowrance units & you can see most of them on google maps