Rend lake

What gives? I've came to rend lake the past 5 years around the same time and always caught plenty of nice crappie. This year it plain out sucks with 12 In four hours yesterday and 19 in about 10 hours of fishing today with a ton of dinks everywhere we go. Something is wrong besides what's normal or are we doing something wrong??? We have fished points of bays and backs of bays all over gun creek, S. Marcum, and Jackie Branch and haven't found a bush or switch grass patch with more than 1-3 decent fish in it. What's the deal?

I agree. Been a rough year on Rend for me as well. If someone else knows how to catch them. Please share

It's called lack of population! This lake has been beat to death in the past several years and now the inevitable is showing up. Get used to poor catches because the dnr is gonna let continue rhis way. Are you happy with all the dinks? They need to address the limit!

I disagree. I think it has more to do with the lake being down. It is usually around 410.5 to 411.5 this time of the year and we are at 409. Big fish don't like to get in shallow bushes in clear water.

Look for more stained water and deeper bushes you will find bigger fish.

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Doesn't look like a lack of big fish to me mean green judging by pix you have posted recently. Tell me, are you catching the numbers you have in the past?

I haven't found any huge concentrations in the few times I've been there this year like years past but man oh man have we caught some pigs. A lot of 12-15" fish.

Definitely need good electronics when fishing rend.

Metalworks what I am saying is if the water was a foot deeper and not so clear you would find bigger concentrations of Big Fish.

it has been a tough and I have been fishing the bushes for 20 plus years clear is not good in the brush and lack of water is another reason by far the worst ytd I have ever had.

Buddy went last weekend......fished out over deeper sunken brush that he located on down scan. Caught 20 over 14 inches...

Let me clarify my position....I'm not having problems catching big quality fish, it's the lack of 9-11" fish I'm getting at. You can catch "good" overs or 6-7" fish.

Been hammering 13"ers at Kincaid

come on guys i'll be there next week I was excited now ya'll bringing me down.

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Looks good nick. Keep yankin'

This was today in 8 hours from the bushes.

We had 50-60 overs TODAY too. I was in a tournament and only needed 10! Too bad they only got 3rd place instead of 1st

Nice pic Mean Green!

metalworx, saw your truck at the ramp today. was wondering how you did. slow for me, 7 keepers in the morning for me. :(

Nice haul mean green! I suppose it helps to know the lake a little better than we do. We did better yesterday and kept 36. Attachment 161850

Cleaned 30 overs Saturday from the bushes. Ill agree big or bust this year it seems like. Either catching a 14" fish or a 6-7" fish. A lot of those 9-10s seem to be missing.

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Thanks, Nick for 2 days of great fishing and posting of pic.Hope to return soon!