Report: Madison County Lake, 29 Nov

I know it's crappie.com, but sometimes it's fun to do something a little different. Every year, they stock a portion of Madison County Lake with trout. The opening day if the Friday after Thanksgiving and usually goes to the end of Feb. You must purchase a permit to fish for $5 daily. Limit is five fish on your daily permit. It's a put and take fishery, so they expect you to take your fish out of the trout impoundment. The fish in the attached picture took a silver 1/16 oz little cleo spoon or a 1/12 oz silver kast-master. They were very light hitting the power bait and I was missing a lot of those bites. Spent 1 1/2 hours out in the rain and that was enough. The fillet knife in the picture is 11" long, so these are some nice fish the three averaged 1.4

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Some good eating their Bob glad you got to go for a little while.

They will also bite tiny white jigs fished under a bobber same way you might fish shallow for crappie. they are a lot of fun much bigger than what you can catch fishing tailraces such as Tims ford and below Smith Lake.

Good job Bob D!

Nice Bob D!

Nice catch

I like it. Good report. You in.

You don't see no fish like that down here, pretty fish :ThumbsUp

Nice bob ! Nothing wrong with mixing it up a little.

Hey Bob, can you tell me more about this lake. My son has been hounding me for a couple of years to take him trout fishing below Smith Lake but everyone I talked to says its not worth the effort for the small fish you'll catch. What size lake is it, can I put my bass boat in there or would we need to bring our kayaks? Also where exactly is it? Thanks for any info....Rob


EDIT....I think I found it on Google, is it the one in Gurley,AL?