Taylorsville report

For anyone that cares about T'ville, i went there yesterday and only came home with a cold. Water temp was 47 to 48 degrees on the main lake and 46 degrees in the creeks. Didn't understand how the creeks were colder. Couldn't find them deep or shallow. Went to Rough a week a ago and the water temps were 55 in the creeks. It was my first time a T'ville this year, but last year at this time i was catching them shallow and the water temp was atleast 55 in the creeks. Gonna head to Rough until the water gets right.

I appreciate the heads up, I'm about to make my first outing and dont really want to make it a 'waterhaul' as my papaw used to say!!

Same here.
The guy at the bait store went a week ago Saturday and said he
couldn't get a single bite, he talked to 5 other boats and the same thing,
none of them got a single bite.
I went last Saturday and I couldn't get a bite either, they really shut down.
I've never seen it so bad, for crappie anyway, I don't know about bass.
I got temps in the 50 to 51 on the surface.:cool:

I think the crappie will turn on, they are just going to have a later start hopefully. That rain and cold front must have cooled the temps down a tad, but it is definitely a different start this year. I am catching alot at Rough River, but they are SMALL for the most part. Fishing should be phenomenal there in a couple of years.

... that Taylorsville Lake Crappie tend to spawn at around 6-8ft deep. They also seem to not really get a good start until very late April to the first week in May.
They have also been flooded out of several of their spawn attempts, back 3-5 years ago ... so they may be suffering from a severe loss of numbers, overall.

Even post spawn, on up into the Summer months, I always used to be able to get into them .... from O'dark thirty til around late morning - midday. I just had to find downed trees on shady banks, with relatively deep water access close by (or > 10ft of water at the ends of the blowdowns). But, it's been a few years since I've made more than one or two trips to T-ville ... and the lake has gone thru some changes over that time period ... so, it is possible that the situation has changed, as well.

.. cp :cool:

Yes-it's changed, it's gotten worse.
I caught good fish the last two years around this time.
And I've noticed that most I've caught over the past couple of years have
been good size ones, very few small ones.
That's a bad indicator, showing they haven't been replenished.

The guy doing surveys on the lake for the fish and wildlife dept. told
me last summer they were going to stock crappie in Taylorsville this past fall.
I hope they did. the numbers are definetly down.:cool: