Silver lake Crappies, starting soon!

Hello My name is Roger and I guided for bass and crappie on Silver lake (Cowlitz co., Wa). The crappie start to bunch up by the end of this month.
you can find them on the out side edge of the pads. Just look for movment on top of the water as you are running the edge of the pad fields. If you find a some you could get into more than 100 in an hour or two. Also log booms and plastic docks are a great place till they head for the canals in October.
If you can find mid-lake brush you can find some good sized crappie (near 2 pounds). The Colors I like on Silver is yellow and white for sunny days and black and yellow for cloudy days. Remember to also fish at night in the fall for crappie under lights on some docks. If you would like to see my great Silver lake map of the bass and crappie spots. Do you know about shannondowa canal????? The crappie will be getting REAL BIG AT SILVER LAKE in two years you can get lots of 2 pound crappies!!!!!!
Roger

wow! thanks for all the great tips. i've been thinking of making a trip down there this fall or even sooner (maybe before school starts up :rolleyes: ). why do you say that they will be getting real big there in a couple years? is it because of the new 9" minimum size?

The limit is 10 a day! My best day is 800 in one day. I rarely keep many crappie every few years I like to have a big fish fry so I take a bunch home to eat with my family. I like the limit the crappie will get VERY big fast! 10 crappie over 1.5 pounds is more than most people need in a day! I ALWAYS put the biggest crappie back to help the fishery! If you would like to lake to be a better crappie lake, start keeping the smaller crappie and toss back the big one! Not many people will do that:cool:

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Originally Posted by ExBassGuide

The limit is 10 a day! My best day is 800 in one day. 10 crappie over 1.5 pounds is more than most people need in a day!

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HOLY CRAP!! 800 in one day. were a lot of them small or big? i've never even seen a crappie close to a pound caught out of there.

I know 2 years ago I took my oldest son down there, then he was 3, and we got into some great crappie fishing. We caught fish all day long, ended up keeping 30 to eat, but some that we caught measured between 12-14 inches. Unfortunately at that time there wasn't a limit on them and I saw many many boats keeping every fish they caught.. I am hopeful with the new limits and size regs I'll be able to get my youngest son into them in a few years. It was a great day and one t o be remembered.... :D

CK,
I got some time off coming and was thinking about taking a Monday off and heading down there, maybe August 28th....

man that sounds like quite a day :) . what part of the lake did you fish? i'll keep you posted if i go down there.

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Originally Posted by CK14

man that sounds like quite a day :) . what part of the lake did you fish? i'll keep you posted if i go down there.

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This was late October so we were fishing the canals....Yea lmk how it goes if you head down and I will do the same...

i fishind it in late october as well great crappie!.

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Originally Posted by brokentrail

CK,
I got some time off coming and was thinking about taking a Monday off and heading down there, maybe August 28th....

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are you still thinking of heading down there? i might go next week. probably tuesday or wednesday.

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Originally Posted by CK14

are you still thinking of heading down there? i might go next week. probably tuesday or wednesday.

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Well I was supposed to go today but I've been house ridden with the flu since late Saturday night. It definitely put a damper on my big fishing weekend and the time I took off of work. :mad:

It will be mid-september before I can make it there now but good luck to ya if you get down there...

yeah i guess i'm not going down there either. maybe later in the year. i was gonna go but the weather isn't looking to good. and school starts next week :( :( :(

ha school! dang i need to get a job..

The best time to go after crappie at Silver lake is Late Oct. The big females are the last to show up and I do NOT fish for the BIG crappie in streeters canal. You can find better canals on the lake other than streeters. Oct. 15 till early Nov. is the best for numbers and the last week of Oct and into Nov. is the best for the big crappie (most over a pound and some over 1.75lbs).
You can get crappie now at silver lake out in the main lake. I did see some feeding is a bug scum line in sucker creek (a good crappie area). This time of year they hold on the edge of the pads, docks, pilngs, log booms and brush.
when I was guiding on the lake I would hit the normal crappie spots early Saturday morning to give the fish sore mouths so some one would not fill a cooler. But plenty of crappie remained for any one to catch but not in the hundreds. This way the crappie would stay on the spots and everyone could catch a some. Now that the lake has a limit this lake will go crazy with crappie! I think in three or four years we are going to see lots of two pound crappie and some good numbers of three pounders. And the state recort could be broken over time! Silver is a GREAT crappie lake and the limit will only make it even better. I C&R 98% of the time when fishing for crappie. So this will be geat news for people like me that love just catching a bunch of good crappies and toss em back. Take some photos first. I have fished Silver lake for almost 20 years. The limit is a G R E A T thing for Silver Lake.
Roger