West Point Crappie bite

Friday, June 17, 2005 ..... Fished West Point at Yellow Jacket Creek bridge for the 2nd time in a month. They were biting sporadically after sundown, but as the water cooled down the bite got better. We caught 46 crappies and 9 hybrids or white bass from about 10 p.m. to 8 a.m. Even with cat naps we caught pretty steadily all night. Biggest crappie was probably a couple of 11-inchers in the three-fourths pound range. Fish were deep from 12 to 20 feet in 38 feet of water. We had two down lights (a white and a green flourescent) and some hanging lanterns. We fished gold aberdeen hooks rigged Carolina style with a quarter ounce egg above the swivel and with a foot-long flourocarbon leader.
A couple of the hybrids were in the 18-inch, three pound range and they fought like men. :D

Thanks for the report and welcome to the Georgia Crappie.com forum. Glad to have you aboard. We can all help each other with a report each trip.
Thanks and Tight Lines to ya!
Smitty

Welcome Ga. Adventurer, we are happy to have you join us here at Ga. Crappie.Com. Good fishing report, nice details. Glad you caught some fish. Have you read the night stalking post on the main board by Rango? It realy is good. I printed it out , I will read it over and over again so I can remember all the details.Again welcome and thanks for sharing your trip with us. Hope you are planing to come to the fish fry, camp out and fishing tourniment starting July22 at Blanton Park. Take care and good fishing! Jimmy S.

Glad to see ya join, glad to see the fish are biting too. How muddy was the lake since all the rain?

GAAdventurer,

Welcome! I was a bridge away on Saturday, and caught a few crappie. A fellow came up later and hit the other pilings. He wasn't there more than 20 minutes and caught a huge crappie. Must have been at least 3 lbs. Biggest crappie I've seen caught.

bigcrappster

Bigcrappster... That is a big fish ... I've never seen 'em that big at Yellow Jacket Creek. How deep was that big one? .... and was it in the middle section of the bridge which is about 38 feet deep? or near the rip-rap at the sides? I've seen fish that reached 4 pounds taken at Lake Lanier near the docks at Lanier Islands, but that was years ago .... that fish was nearly 25 inches long and too wide to fit in a five-gallon bucket.

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Bigcrappster... That is a big fish ... I've never seen 'em that big at Yellow Jacket Creek. How deep was that big one? .... and was it in the middle section of the bridge which is about 38 feet deep? or near the rip-rap at the sides? I've seen fish that reached 4 pounds taken at Lake Lanier near the docks at Lanier Islands, but that was years ago .... that fish was nearly 25 inches long and too wide to fit in a five-gallon bucket.

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GeorgiaAdventurer,

I was on bridge just near the one you were on, but not the same bridge. Depth at this bridge is approx. 23' at it's deepest. He caught the monster on the middle piers, and he was somwhere around 12 to 14 feet deep when he hooked up. He wasn't using minnows, but was using a double rig with white jigs.

Bigcrappster

BigCrapster,
Are you talking about the bridge near sunny point up from yellow jacket creek?
Ga. Adv . . .

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BigCrapster,
Are you talking about the bridge near sunny point up from yellow jacket creek?
Ga. Adv . . .

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GAAdventurer,

I put in at the Sunny Point landing and head right toward the river. Go under the bridge where the beach is on the right. Then make a left toward the small bridge that leads to a large backwater area.