Thread: so so cold

Fishers, have you fished Sardis before? If I have been there it was 25 years ago!

Have never fished it. Just got off the phone with some stores in Clayton and Yanush. Lake is mostly ice free but no minnows due to trucks not wanting to deliver in the cold weather. If I go tomorrow I think I will fish the 4 spots I have circled in red first if the wind permits.

Fishers - I fish Sardis every year (but I've never been in the dead of Winter, usually go in hot Summer.) The areas you circle usually produce some for me as well as the timber to the west of the rip-rap area you circled. I wouldn't expect them in the timber this time of year. The locals always catch them below the bridge there. Another area that produces even better for me is the creek bed of Anderson Creek as it meanders south of the cemetery road bridge up near Anderson Creek Road. Lots of deep holes there that have produced every time I've been there. It would be a little more of a boat ride tho'. A favorite lake since the 80s for me - just wish I would get down there more.

Is Anderson the tributary that comes from the north east side of the lake?

No, that's Buffalo Creek. Anderson comes in west of Yanush in between Buffalo and the Jack Fork area. Just follow Anderson Creek road west out of Yanush and you will see the Cemetery road going south. Follow it to where it crosses Anderson Creek. It eventually comes out down near where you have highlighted. The best part for me has been Anderson Creek (bed) running south from the Cemetery road bridge. It really sticks out on the Navionics webapp.

Found it, thanks Iken. Have you ever tried the dirt boat launch just to the north of the bridge on Sardis cemetery Rd?

I've seen it but my boat wouldn't work there. The only boats I have seen launched there are flat bottoms.