Gville not good

Well I did get to Gville lake yesterday for about 3 hrs and it was not a good day for me and a friend. We tried from 2 ft to 17-19 ft with not bite. I was marking fish on the fish finder but could not get a single bite. We were fishing in a major creek that we did great last year but I guess the crappie have not moved into yet. The wind was to strong for me to try the creek channel in the lake but I guess that is fishing. We will try later and hope some people are having better luck than me.:bash

How were you fishing?? Longlining or vertical? The main thing was what was the water temp?? its a matter of water temp right or so it seems with us on the big G right now.We cannot find any over 54° the last weekends and the fishng has been slow. This weather will not stay consistant ..Example today going to 78 by wed night down to 25 go figure.The few female crappie we have caught have eggs busting at the seems and need to lay soon but they got to have 60° to become fertile!!Hang in there when the big G heats up its unreal.

Been tough past few days

I have been finding water 53 to 57 degrees but the fishing is still slow. I have started catching some fish the last 2 weeks and they are beginning to slowly show up in places they normally would have been already. Just keep trying

I got 28 today in 3 ft of water on minnows.

Brown's Creek is on fire.38 today long-lining. Wind was ugly until late however.
Zero

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Brown's Creek is on fire.38 today long-lining. Wind was ugly until late however.
Zero

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You using minnows or jigs and you fishing around the causeway?

Longlining Jigs. No minnows for me. Fished 8-12 foot water. The last two hours were best as the fish came up and fed right before dark. Even saw some bugs out as we were taking out. The approaching cold front likely turned them on. Now the cold weather will turn them off. I expect it will be Mon-Tue next week before temps get real.
Saw 62.1 surface temperature.
Zero

g3fisherman i feel your pain. We had the same experience last friday. Surely they will move on up towards the shallows soon, that freezer aint gonna fill itself. I am planning on heading over there tuesday and check it out again.

I know what you mean G3 Honeycomb is the closet water from my house but right now its not paying off for me. I went Monday and you would have thought it was the weekend Snug Harbor ramp was so full you was lucky to find a spot to park and Sunrise Marina was the same only managed 13 fish the water was low low low lol You had to jump off the pier into your boat lol. Last week while the water was up found some good fish before dark along the causeway and the Grant bridge. The best fishing I have found lately is off the bank below the dam early in the morning and into the night fishing up at the wall minnow bite as well as the jig produced some good fish had some good 14 and 15 inch fish. I went yesterday about 11am stayed till about 230pm water was down but the fish was there I walked from one end to the other trying to get away from the stripe but they were in there thick caught so many I just give up on the crappie though I did have 15 keepers and kept 19 of the biggest stripe. Oh well its just a matter of time for that water to hit that magic number then we all can get our fish on! lol Yall all have a gooden and catch one for me

Okay, I can't believe this. Check it out. I've had the same poor results as a few of you have said, so I've decided the next time out, I'm going to take it easy for part of my trip and just do it the way my dad and I used to fish for crappie by drifting around with a couple poles with crappie rigs on them. Some of you may remember the old two hook rigs you use minnows with that has the weight on the bottom of it. Well, I've found 4 old ones in one of my tackle boxes and went a few places looking for a couple more, just in case it gets good. Hahahaha the guy at Gander Mountain looked at me like I was from another planet when I described what a crappie rig was and how we used to fish them. Surely, some of you remember the old crappie rigs?

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Okay, I can't believe this. Check it out. I've had the same poor results as a few of you have said, so I've decided the next time out, I'm going to take it easy for part of my trip and just do it the way my dad and I used to fish for crappie by drifting around with a couple poles with crappie rigs on them. Some of you may remember the old two hook rigs you use minnows with that has the weight on the bottom of it. Well, I've found 4 old ones in one of my tackle boxes and went a few places looking for a couple more, just in case it gets good. Hahahaha the guy at Gander Mountain looked at me like I was from another planet when I described what a crappie rig was and how we used to fish them. Surely, some of you remember the old crappie rigs?

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I can tell you that works great! My dad and granddad caught coolers full of crappie that way. I always had to set in the middle set and I was limit to 1 pole because they would use 2 to 3 and crappie would tend to tangle our lines. I would help them real in crappie when they had more then 1 r 2 crappie on it the same time. I mess them both the good ol days thanks for the memories..

Hey Larry you must have been rich to afford those crappie rigs like that. my dad and his brother would just let the wind blow them all over south sauty with just 2 hooks on leaders tied to the line with a nut tied on the bottom. I was maybe 10 then and tried showing them the crappie rigs but they would have no part to do with them. those sure were fun filled days. miss them more every year!!!!

Larry David. Wally world madison boulevard has those rigs. The one they sell are marketed by capps and coleman.
Expensive though.
Grizzly Jigs sell them individually or by the dozen.
Call and ask for Josh, tell him Zero sent you. that way he will charge you more, likely.

Thanks Alabamaal, sounds a lot like the boat I was in. Some of the best memories of my father as well. Davey your dad and brother were probably better at those old blood knots than most surgeons. That's pretty doggone impressive. Thanks for the info Zero, the crackhead Wally on Drake didn't have them. I haven't heard of that brand. I did find some made by Eagle Claw for just $1.10 each. They look very well made, the actual leader line is smaller diameter, too, and so is the hook line. I'm likin' that. But I may go ahead and tell that dude Zero sent me just to see how much he inflates the price :)

Let me know. So I can claim a commission.
Good folks at Grizzly jig.
josh Bowen is a standup guy and good crappie Fisher man.

Thanks for all of your repleys. So I guess I'm not as bad a fisherman as I throught last week. I was throwing Jigs in the shallow water at brush piles and in the deeper water 17-19 ft we was long lining Jigs. The water was about 54 deg. and I was not marking many fish or bait, I was fishing up in a major creek at G'ville. So we try another time.