Tville 2016

As mentioned, here is the start of what hopefully will be a thread full of pics and success stories this year. Crappiehabits and I will probably not be makin posts for a little while. We sold our boat. Congrats to cox, a new cdc member and the proud new owner of a war eagle. We are in the process of getting the new rig all transfered(comin from tn so no title) slowly but surely. Then we'll start the customizing. Hopin to use cumberland crappie for our rod holders and Brian at bbgmarine has got us in line for some new electronics. Anyways, it will be end of Feb or beginning of March before we all done and ready so until then, it's up to you guys! Good luck.

What boat did you buy?

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Originally Posted by Ricky83

What boat did you buy?

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and PICS by all means pics so I'll know who to pull up by when I'm looking to find fish LOL

Also curios what kind of boat yall went with..hopefully I'll have mine ready for the spring..

Ha. Maybe where not to go. We are buyin a bay boat. It will suit our multiple species need better than any other we think. So we should still be easy to spot since you don't see many bays. It's a skeeter zx20 bay. 115 yamaha 4 stroke. White with a north Carolina blue stripe. Hoping to pick it up sat. Will post pics then.

Pap (my dad) and I went to Tville Sat (1/9/16). We got there at about 8:00. There were zillions and zillions of baitfish in the spots we were fishing. The top 10' of the water column was nothing but baitfish. So we started off spider
rigging just under the schools at about 10-12' with minimal success. The fish I did catch came off a Bobby Garland Mo Glo in Ghost color. So I decided to change tactics. Never get stuck in the same rut. I had made my dad a crappie rod for casting jigs so I wanted to see how he liked it.....
I tied the same jig I caught the other fish on and started dad off with a drop shot. My second cast I got thumped by a Dink. Third cast was a nice 10 1/2" black. So I told dad to switch to my style jig and we continued to cast to timber with better success than I expected.
We fished all my spots that were similar until about 12:00. We ended up with 10 nice keeper blacks with prolly 25-30 Dinks, all being whites. There is a really good population of whites that haven't reached legal size. All fish had eggs and bellys FULL of minners. Water color was what I would call coffee with light creamer. Water temp was 48. I'm looking for a big shad kill in the next month when water temps drop into the 30's. Never seen so many shad this late into winter.
Jan, Feb, and March usually cause me trouble. I'm looking forward to finding the fish once the winter pattern hits. Seems like they are still in a fall-like pattern still.
I will post write ups of all my trips from now on. I have followed this site for about a year. I'm looking forward to maybe being a help to some folks. Sorry details are so vague but I have worked really hard for about 5 years to figure Tville out and I think I'm close.
God Bless

Went yesterday, Thursday 14th,
Water was 39 deg by Van Burren (saw some ice on the water)
and 46 to 47 down mid lake between Chowning & Settlers.
didn't venture any further, may be warmer at Settlers.
Fish were slow and scattered.
Caught a few in shallow 7' of water and a few
in deeper water (over 20')
I only fished with a jig, probably would have done better
with minnows considering how slow they bit.
They just mouthed it, no thump like normal.
It was hard to detect a hit.

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Originally Posted by JCCLARK

Went yesterday, Thursday 14th,
Water was 39 deg by Van Burren (saw some ice on the water)
and 46 to 47 down mid lake between Chowning & Settlers.
didn't venture any further, may be warmer at Settlers.
Fish were slow and scattered.
Caught a few in shallow 7' of water and a few
in deeper water (over 20')
I only fished with a jig, probably would have done better
with minnows considering how slow they bit.
They just mouthed it, no thump like normal.
It was hard to detect a hit.

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Put a crappie nibble on that jig and the bites will increase. I don't leave home without them.

Thanks for the good information on this thread the last few days. My new boat and me will get back down that way hopefully next weekend. Going out of town with the wife this weekend. I know before Christmas the water temps were rising every week and it was more like they had started into a late fall early winter and then thought it was starting to be spring. It was weird there for a bit. Hopefully next weekend it will be back to something more like I would expect. And since you all were asking of other folks, I got a Tracker Pro Team 175 TF.

Just out of curiosity : did any of you other Taylorsville regulars realize that Asian Carp are in the Salt River below the dam at Taylorsville Lake :yikes

YEP, they are !! So, let's hope that no one decides to dip any "shad" out of the spillway tailwaters and river below the spillway, and then fish with them in the lake. :banghead

... cp :kewl