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ZEROED on crappie!!! Scanned the entire lake with side imaging. Never saw one ball of shad. Saw a ton of fish tho. Ended up catching what i think all the fish were. GAR! Beautiful lake with a great channel. But i havent seen a crappie from there yet! Lol
Where is East Lake? I want to be sure and avoid it! :Rofl
Hhaha near maddox bay
Was your side scan on.....Yikes!
That may be why my dad and I used to bream fish in there
My wife's uncle, now deceased, used to live on that lake. My hunting buddy has part ownership in a house there too. We went ONCE, and caught a ton of bream.....and three very small crappie. That was years ago...... It sure does look like crappie.......
I grew up fishing a lot of the oxbow lakes along the White River. The crappie fishing has been aweful the last couple of years. The shad population has crashed and I believe it is due to the large population of grass crap that have taken over in the river. The grass crap consume the planton therefore the bait fish do not have a food source. In May, there use to be incredible populations of shad in the river system and now there are few shad balls encountered.
If I want to go fishing in an oxbow lake now I drive to Lake Washington in MS.
If the river ain't right it's terrible.
When the water is rite, the best crappie fishing on East Lake is in #2 Redcat. Take East Bayou until it makes a right. Go straight through the brush and you will run into #1. Follow it to the end and go through the brush again and you will be in #2. They won't be many big fish but a lot of keepers. Spring time is the best. Good probability you will be the only boat fishing it most days.
What is the water level for it to be right? I've never been there but would like to try it some time. Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by stormcloud
Haven't fished it in years. When I did fish it the water needed to be around 14 ft. Much lower and you would drag bottom getting through the brush. Any higher and the limbs on the brush was very thick.
Thanks storm I'm gonna give it a try this spring.Quote:
Originally Posted by stormcloud
I grew up over there. Hard to catch the water right in spring. Water is usually too high. If the water is right you can catch crappie there any time of the year. Really good fishing in fact when the water is right.
The Silver and Bighead Carp may crowd out native fish and eat up the algae the rest rely on to start the food chain. I think the White River overall has been on a downward spiral ever since the dams lowered the water temps.:dono
I could agree with that!
From historic accounts, the upper White River was the best smallmouth fishery in the region before the dams were put in. It is hard to believe that people once planed to also dam up the a Buffalo. I wish I could have fished the White pre dams.Quote:
Originally Posted by millertime04
Yep. My uncles and family cuss to this day over the dam. I'm pretty irritated at it as well.