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Hey guys me and a buddy are heading up to Beaver Lake to fish Friday and Saturday. I have never crappie fished that lake and was hoping ya'll might be able to give us a few pointers to get us off on the right foot. We will be on the west side of the lake. Any info including current reports would be awesome!
Thanks!
your going to want to get some colors tied on, we got a couple inches of rain here sat-sun, water is up 18 inches or so, and got pretty muddy from P-creek south. River is still pretty turbid yesterday, some fish coming from creeks in and around Mont-n e and Horshoe bend. Before rain, fish have moved to horizontal wood off of bluff ends in the creeks, best bite on black/chart or red/chart shinee hinee, anywhere from 2 to 6 feet deep, but over 18 to 30 feet of water. The sun is you friend right now.
hope that helps
Cant beat a Arkie shinee hinee......chartreuse with orange head
Just follow the Kid!! Better yet get him to take ya and maybe catch some of those big spots(kentucky Bass ) he is famous for!!!
Thanks guys! Do you usually cast, vertical jig, or use a bobber with your jigs there?
Heck yea, come on! No length limit on KY's this year on beaver.... haul those suckers out! just an odd shaped crappie in the grease!Quote:
Originally Posted by jackie53
start off vertical jigging, fish will move up the the water column as sun gets up, then its bobber time. don't be afraid to fish shallower than you are.Quote:
Originally Posted by Squirrelhunter1980
Thanks for all the tips! We will give it a shot!Quote:
Originally Posted by shineehineekid
I agree with shinee. The waster is chocolate milk in War Eagle and south of Hickory Creek to 412.
Does anyone ever fish brushpiles there? Or is there not enough of them to mention trying it?
Thanks!
there are plenty of brushpiles. there is a brush pile anywhere you think there should be one already. lake has lots of standing timber left too, mostly cedar.
went up river this evening. sucked. lots of widow makers to dodge on the way up... farther you go, the colder the water gets. guess that snow melt did that?
you can out run the mud, but you better be with someone who knows the river like the back of his hand. would not advise it if you don't and value you lower unit/life.
i'll stand by my orginal suggestion, to fish horseshoe bend area and north to prairie creek. go back in the creeks. plenty to fish, look for horizotnal wood on 45 degree banks, with water over 10 foot, preferably 25 plus. be careful, there are ALOT of floaters.
PS: keep the kentuckies... all of them. lake is getting over-run. 6 per person. they eat just as good as crappie!
Went out and checked the water today. Even saw shineehineekid pulling out. Water is still very muddy. Went up to horseshoe bend and it clears up. I will be puttin in at horseshoe bend in the morning.
We fished all day today and didn't catch one crappie. Hopefully better tomorrow. Going t do some vertical jigging in the timber and see if that works
Squirrellhunter
little report for ya, may be it helps
went walleye fishing, way, way up river today. man, what a long day. had three walleye on, land one. fished like a maniac (aka, bass tournament angler) till 2:00, then went crappie fishing. managed 5 keepers out of the mud, still on the horizontal wood pattern. took alot of patience to catch them. don't think the mud is as much as a problem as all of the trash floating in it, disorients the fish or something. Fish caught were on orange/chartreuse Hinee's, and some of our new black/Chart 2.5XL tubes. Good water displacement from them, i think it got bit quicker because of that. Oh, good to meet ya LRjoe1.
We went to prairie creek today and fished some agfc brush piles and caught 6 crappie. 2 on a minnow jig and 4 on a pumpkin/chartreuse tube jig fished 8ft under a bobber in 20 ft of water.
Launched at 12 bridge yesterday to try out new prop and ran up that way. didn't fish, but its much, much better looking water.
Yep, I put in at Horseshoe yesterday and that was the mud line. Nothing north of that yesterday. I decided I am going to fish south today. Gonna put in at 412.
I will go SLOW and easy so I don't have to try out a new prop myself.
you got that right! Just got that big ole Lowe that you saw me in, still working on getting the prop-motor setting. just trying that out.Quote:
Originally Posted by LRJoe1
i think if you go up from 412 you'll be happy, water is still dirty but not turbid.
Kent, did you try out our spot from last year? Haven't had a chance to get out there for a while.
PM to ya