Slabbin on lake cumberland
Me and a buddy were fishing on cumberland saturday when we came to a rock wall with a tree fallen into the water. He said, "watch this I'm gonna catch a hawg crappie." I said,"we only catch crappie off the dock and out of the baithouse around here go ahead show me how." He casted and landed close to the wall but over the tree, then after about two minutes he said here we go. he set the hook and comminced to reeling, I thought he was really dramatizing the catch like they do on tv. Then I seen the fish turn just enough to flash and it was so big I thought it was a drum. We got it in it weighed 2lbs12oz and was about 18.5" long. this was the biggest crappie I had ever seen. With the excitement up we got all rods out and he caught another that was well over 2lbs. within 5 minutes. then another. It just kept going and going. So this makes me wonder is cumberland really worth crappie fishing. This has built my hopes up and I believe that it is a great place to crappie fish that no one fishes that hard
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Me and a buddy were fishing on cumberland saturday when we came to a rock wall with a tree fallen into the water. He said, "watch this I'm gonna catch a hawg crappie." I said,"we only catch crappie off the dock and out of the baithouse around here go ahead show me how." He casted and landed close to the wall but over the tree, then after about two minutes he said here we go. he set the hook and comminced to reeling, I thought he was really dramatizing the catch like they do on tv. Then I seen the fish turn just enough to flash and it was so big I thought it was a drum. We got it in it weighed 2lbs12oz and was about 18.5" long. this was the biggest crappie I had ever seen. With the excitement up we got all rods out and he caught another that was well over 2lbs. within 5 minutes. then another. It just kept going and going. So this makes me wonder is cumberland really worth crappie fishing. This has built my hopes up and I believe that it is a great place to crappie fish that no one fishes that hard
Even in its lower leveled state, Cumberland Lake is a great Crappie lake. You've just got to put in the time and find the structure they use, during the various periods of the year. It's not really "underfished" for Crappie ... it's just such a big lake that one cannot always venture far and wide, to sample its many potentially good areas. The lowered levels has also caused a misconception, in the minds of many, that it's a dried up hole :p ... so many have moved their efforts to other bodies of water. That, in itself, isn't a bad thing ... at least not for the anglers that stay, since it allows them less competition for the better areas ;)
That story reminds me of a similar situation, that happened to me, on Lake Herrington. Late friend of mine, that I used to fish with, told me to buy a few white marabou jigs in 1/16oz and come on down. He took me to a rock wall, with a huge Sycamore trunk hanging down its side. We tied up to the tree, and he told me to drop my jig straight down thru the branches, about 8-10ft and very slowly reel it back up. We pulled alot of 2lb Crappie off that tree, that day ... and I took my (then) girlfriend's dad to the tree, and we repeated the same results. I'd fished Herrington almost all my life, and never caught Crappie that big from there :D That was the birthplace of my "Vertical Casting" ;) ... and the resurrection of that method, occurred on Watts Bar Lake, TN ... almost 3 decades later :eek:
Luck2ya, on Cumberland Lake ... post your stories and pics, for the rest of us to see ... would'ya please.
... cp :cool:
