Thread: Shell Lake Report

Hooked up the boat and made it to the ramp today just a little before noon. My first time to fish Shell and I was looking forward to it.

Put in and headed up the creek on the right. Looked over the points and the shoreline real good with my Hbird 1197 and marked several pieces of brush in 8 to 20 feet of water. Started hitting those and was just overrun with dinks. When Dinobot says this lake has a lot of dinks, well, he's not kidding!!

I think I pulled 4 to 8 dinks off of ever piece of wood I marked. Some were too small to even get the jig in their mouth. All you felt was the tap-tap-tap-tap of them pecking away. The ones I caught were all in the 5 to 8 inch range.

Most came off of a 1/16th Chrome head with a white and pink Fuzzy Grub. Don't know why, but they wouldn't touch a 1/16th white jig head with a pink and white tube. Wanted the chrome and fuzzy grub combo. Later in the day, a 2 inch Slab Slayer in the Cajun Cricket color turned them on.

Never did find the keepers. It must have been their day off but I still had a good time. Water temp was 54 when I started and by 3:30 when I left, it had risen to 59.

Beautiful day on a beautiful lake! Thumbs Up

I didn't make it out today but will probably be there tomorrow. Next time your there when you first go around the corner from the ramp look at the bank you'll see the stairs and some poles from docks that used to be there. The docks are gone but the brushpiles under 'em are still there that's where the big ones like to hang out.

only managed about 40 yesterday with only 10 keepers. I could not get them to bite to save my life. fished from 30 to 1 fow and just could not find what they wanted to bite. On the sonar it looked like they were holding on the ledges going from 20+ to around 12 fow but couldn't get them to bite. Best fish was a 12 3/4" female caught by my brother.

Ah springtime at Shell. I fished for about 4 hours yesterday and caught about 100 dinks before I finally found where the bigger ones where hanging out. I wound up with 12 keepers before my wife and youngest daughter showed up. My youngest just wanted to run around the lake so I did very little fishing after that. It was a wonderful day on a beautiful lake.

Nice fish you got there Dino and a cute little girl! What is it about boats and little girls? Mine loves to ride around the lake as well!

Love that first pic, that dog is showing some real interest in that Crappie!

Anyone around shell that can tell me if the boat ramp is still outta the water? I would love to get out there but it's been too shallow to launch all summer.