Taking Grand Daughter fishing & would like to get her on Crappie. I've only been 1 time in my life as I Bass & Striper fish & don't have a clue how to target them. Going to Cedar Creek Lake. Anyone have any ideas ??? Thanks
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Taking Grand Daughter fishing & would like to get her on Crappie. I've only been 1 time in my life as I Bass & Striper fish & don't have a clue how to target them. Going to Cedar Creek Lake. Anyone have any ideas ??? Thanks
spawning beds straight across from first dock you come to,,,,,, the dock closest to the road isnt it....
Depends on when you're going...:confused: If you're going now, then I would drift around with live minnows in 10 to 15 ft of water. If you're a jig fisherman, I would try casting to some standing timber that 's in the lake. If you go in April, then I would try fishing in close to the bank around cover. Right now, the fish should be moving in closer to shallow water, with the warm weather we are having. If it turns cold again and I believe it will, the fish will move back out in 15-20 ft water. Personally, I'm a jig fisherman and I usually try casting to timber or some kind of cover in 5 to 15 ft of water. A good bait to use is a 1/16 oz. tube jig or a 1/16 oz. chartreuse roadrunner. Good luck and hope your grandaughter catches a big one...Hands Clapping
Les ... keep your eye on this : » Cedar Creek Lake Fishing Report & take plenty of minnows :D (if you fish with minnows) because the Crappie & small Bass are going to take their toll on them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Les Young
If you're not going there anytime soon, don't worry ... they haven't started spawning, yet. All the Crappie in Cedar Creek lake are Black Crappie, and they will spawn in only a couple of feet of water. Look thru this thread, when Fred & I went there, and you'll see the types of places they like to spawn in : http://www.crappie.com/crappie/kentu...venture-2.html
If the child gets bored with not catching anything ... put on a 1/32oz jig (black or brown feathers or grub) and tip it with a waxworm or short piece of nightcrawler, and drift it right close to the bottom, in 8-12ft of water. (you might want to put a split-shot sinker above the jig, about 8-12", so you can get the jig down faster ;) ) You'll probably get into alot of small Bluegill, but you also stand a chance at some decent sized Redear (Shellcracker). Hands Clapping Concentrate these efforts around/out on the mud flats, rather than in the standing timber areas ... and that will keep the small baitstealer Bluegills down to a more reasonable level.
Here's an overview map : http://fw.ky.gov/gifs/cedarlak.gif
... cp :cool: