Lake Shelbyville 11-17 and Lake Mattoon 11-18

Had a trip yesterday with Dave out on the ville. He wanted to learn a bit about SI and how I verticle jig and work a bobber and explore wilborn a bit. We did all of the above and caught fish everywhere we went. Was just a little harder for us to find our overs than it had been. Found our bite was really light and more times than not they would just take the line slack. It sure was a beautiful day out there though, lots of boaters! Coal Shaft was packed! We fished 4-14 foot and caught em on Midsouth White/Chart and HookIts Ky lake Killer Red/Chart. We used his light wire heads in 8th and 1/4oz

Today ol chickenguy and I ventured out to Lake Mattoon to do some fun fishin. We had a great time and had some great weather. We fished 16oz heads with red/chart and black/chart and ended up with 35 over 10inches with 6 or 7 of them going over 12.5"...we had some studs!

Ville yesterday:
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Mattoon Today:
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Nice catch!I work for morton buildings in fairfield il. but i work in matton in 2001&2002 man i like fishing at lake matton!It was good time.

Nice job Birdman. My grandparents were from Charleston, and of all the different lakes my grandpa drug me around to when I was a kid, never made it to Mattoon. Never even knew there is a Lake Mattoon until reading about it on here a few years ago. Looks like a good fishing hole.

Great job Tyler,

16 oz. heads, I'm not man enought to through jigs that big. Ha!!! Did you 2-pole em?? I had turkey dinner at church and got my Christmas lights up before the weather went south. Good job birdie.

Good job Tyler . I made it to Coal Shaft around 3 yesterday afternoon and the bite was slow for me . About 45 minutes before dark I started catching fish on Jig/bobber and they were hammering it . Didn't get a limit but did have some nice ones . Sunday went to Pana Lake and and brought home 29 crappies biggest was about 12 ad the smallest was 9.5 all on jig/bobber . Surprised me . I thought they were all small there until today .

See ya Kevin ><)))*>

Great fishing on Mattoon Birdman. Did you catch any in front of Ol Redticks house? HaHaHa!!!

Good job Birdman . I was at Selby on Sat. & seen your truck when I left & I was at Mattoon Sun. & seen your truck there too when I left . I agree Shelby was very busy Sat. & I caught a lot of unders but the overs were hard to come by . I did not do so good at Mattoon on Sun. but I did cautch a lot of small ones & kept about 8 bigger ones . The crappie are biting good now in Nov. and I am sure it will just get better .

Birdie did you find out why they call him Chicken guy?

I believe the term "chickenguy" was coined by birdman on a Rend Lake trip last winter.

Looking good birdman. Love the clients UK hat! Go Cats!

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mattoon can be very good at times with some dandy fish! those 16ounce heads I just hit em on top of the head and scooped the fish up!

Jerry- now that your done with the honey do's you can clean up on the fishies!

Pat- pana lake can be really good from what i have heard! Lots of dinks but some rewarding fish!

dkb- his son actually went to UK and then did a year long internship with the partiots and now is the head athletic trainer ( I think) for Duke!

I liked it better when you called mattoon "a local lake". Just so everyone is clear, mattoon is tough fishing and has lots of random shallow spots that can tear your boat up. So everyone better just stay at shelbyville. ;-)

Good try but I think people will still go and fish the lake anyway.

For the price of the lake sticker. They can have it. As a bonus included in the sticker price of course. You also get. Dogs barking, lawn mowers running,leaf blowers a blowin people just being loud in general. You can even watch the septic systems run right into the lake from houses and trailers. Money well spent because you can't get all that at Shelbyville. Still a nice catch tyler.

haha ol pat always bringin out the positives in a lake!

I don't have anything against lake Mattoon. I just think the lake fee is a little steep for what it has to offer.

Plus you have to put another sticker on your trailer. I really enjoyed fishing Mattoon. If the old man at the ramp would have been nice to people; guys would not have minded paying a daily lake pass.

Good luck to those who fish Mattoon

Very true statement z20... Luckily they have two pretty good and nice guys out there now that split time with meany.

Planned on crappie fishing 11/23 and 11/24 on Lake Mattoon. Killed a bunch of ducks instead. :biggrin

Killing ducks can be better than catching crappie at times.

I agree killing ducks is awsome when they cooperate. Crappie just tend to cooperate more often. I didnt draw a blind for mattoon but just wondering is the lake holding a lot of ducks?