Today's trip to dierks lake

Buddy said yesterday they tore em up over there so today me and buddy headed to Dierks with minners. We only caught 3, least I only caught 3. I called my buddy who of course was back after em there today too but he'd not boated a fish. Talked to 3 other bunches at the ramp all of which said the weather had em messed up. We cleaned our 3, next guy had 2 and the next guy had 9. My question is was the fishing that bad everywhere else today??? Now the weather is supposed to get bad for a few days and of all day's you'd think they'd tore it up today before this bad weather moved in?? I told my buddy if we get a chance Friday we may have to use up the rest of the minners somewhere. Pretty good fish cleaning station they built over there at Jefferson Ridge out on the landing at the point though.

My guess is the wind was the biggest factor. Yesterday my best fish were 10' close to the bottom but that is open water here. Kinda tough fishing unless your in a sheltered spot and I fish open water most of the time. You did not tell any details on your fishing?:confused:

Well as for details we were fishing in 20-25 FOW, in cedar tops about 6-10' down. I did call the guy back who told me about catching them and he said they did manage 6 before the day was over but found what little ones we did catch on the banks right at dark. Over there they tend to catch them up river by the old railroad tram out over a big flat of flooded brush, in some of that open water you mentioned and yes it's tough to fish when the winds blowing like it's been lately. Seen where another guy posted no crappie off Dequeen lake that day either and report from Little River was it's up a bit and crappie ain't biting so looks like this weather has messed em up a lot of places:(:(.

Skeeter , they say when conditions get tough the tough get going.:fish Sure was'nt any fairweather fishermen out today!:twocents

Dierks is tough right now. I went there last weekend and it was awful. I fished brush from 12-20 foot deep and couldn't get anything working. I found some fish that were in even deep water, right off the river channel but couldn't get them to bite a thing. This time of year Dierks is usually really good but with the water temps lagging behind they are just tougher to find and motivate into biting.

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Originally Posted by Slab Junkie

Dierks is tough right now. I went there last weekend and it was awful. I fished brush from 12-20 foot deep and couldn't get anything working. I found some fish that were in even deep water, right off the river channel but couldn't get them to bite a thing. This time of year Dierks is usually really good but with the water temps lagging behind they are just tougher to find and motivate into biting.

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Well the MO for these lakes seems to be during the Winter nobody knows where they go and very few folks catch em, even if they have deep brush to fish over. Come here in a few weeks as water reaches 60 or so it's like fishing a whole different lake???? Never understood it but just know how it works. Now other lakes you can fish no matter what time of the year and catch em, just deeper and slower on brush. I marked tons of fish in the cove we were in ranging from 16-18' up to around 8' from the surface....finder wouldn't shut up and was loaded with fish all day long but as you said here they wouldn't bite. If i'd had jigs I'd maybe thought my color wasn't what they wanted but using a live minnow and hearing others say same thing I know they were just locked up. I'll save my boat gas and time for better days, i.e. warmer water. I don't mind getting out there in rough weather if I think they will bite but I've done it many times before round here and came up empty, oh, and cold!

Crappie are hard to come on dierks lake right now as you know it will get better and the spots you fished they will be there when the water temps get in the 60's

I talked to a buddy of mine today and he is fishing Dierks, and he said the water is so clear you can't get right up on top of them you've got to fish with a rod and reel and stay back away from them, he said he was throwing up to the bank and you could see


the fish swirl the water when they hit, now this was three or four days ago

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Originally Posted by farmer1940

I talked to a buddy of mine today and he is fishing Dierks, and he said the water is so clear you can't get right up on top of them you've got to fish with a rod and reel and stay back away from them, he said he was throwing up to the bank and you could see


the fish swirl the water when they hit, now this was three or four days ago

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Yeah this weather changed that though, it was just getting right before the polar blast hit. Water temps were 56 to even 57ish before this mess but we've had 40 degree rain and I doubt the air temps been much over 50 every day since Wednesday so i'm guessing water temps are back down to 50 or maybe upper 40's now. This really set things back, dang weather!