Keystone

To those who have been fishing Keystone. Have you been catching any black crappie on the lake like I use to way back when? Mostly in the salt creek arm of the lake. Just wondering if they are as plentiful as they use to be.

CJ- I have only caught 3 blacks out of Keystone in the last year-and they were in the Salt creek arm. But then, I usually fish north of the 412 bridge.

I was drift fishing. Using bobby garland baby shad jigs with 1/4 oz heads. The crappie were very deep right off the bottom. I noticed that the crappie had an odd yellowish tint to them. Kinda disturbed me. Not sure what the deal was with that.

@ crappie hog, thanks for the report. I dont know about yellow crappie. Hope it's nothing serious.

I agree with Hog. I hit the Navigation Channel early and struck out so went to Keystone and fished a half day, putting in at Salt Creek. Tried brush and the bridge but finally found a few in 35 fow, hitting black and red Slab Bandits anywhere from 20' to the bottom. Put 20 in the boat but threw 18 of those right back in. This is a new lake for me and it was lonely out there without the Woodworker showing me the ropes. I burned a lot of gas exploring and oddly enough fished the clearest water I have seen for many months. Saw several other guys. Nobody doing much good.

But George, you had the waypoints on you locator, didnt you? Man, I wish I had been with you, but I had a woodworking project I had to be done outdoors and it was overdue, so I was a good boy and did what I needed to do. I guess maybe the water temp is a little too cool but should be warmer in a short time. I now have some of the red and black slab bandits and cant wait to try them out. A friend went bass fishing for a short time on Keystone today and only got one small bass. Seems to be pretty slow for now all over.

Im new to fishing lakes i usally trot line and bank fish creeks for flats and afew good ponds for crappie whe. They're spawning i got a boat any bodu wamna fish skiatook keystone or oolagah with me

I'm always willing if schedule permits.

Let me know when you can

Friday afternoons and Sundays are best. An occasional Saturday when the wife permits.