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We are heading down for annual crappie trip saturday thru tuesday, usually fish Johnathan or blood, i was wondering how the bite was there or if we would better heading a little farther south(below Paris). I figure saturday will be a little slow, but should pick up in the following days. Any suggestions?
Thanks KyDog
We are headed down Friday morning. We will be fishing all day Saturday and Sunday! Everyone must be catching cause they sure aren't talking!!!! On here anyways! I am curious too!!!!! We will be at Moore's fishing with wiskers!!!! OH YEA!!!!
Not sure about Kentucky, but Barkley, sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooow, at least for me, cold front on its way, with more crappy weather this weekend.
Poor Terry :helpQuote:
Originally Posted by Crappie wizard
It is extremely slow right now!!!
when Terry gets done with'em you won't even be able to find them let alone be sloooooow.
Thanks Wilbur!!! I just hope he don't mind sleeping in the boat!!!!!
Yeah what wmac and buffalo said,,Barkley is slow!! Fished the last 2 days wirh only 5 keepers each day.
Very slow. Fished 8 hrs and had 14 small fish. That was 6 different bays from 30 to 6 fow. Some blacks are showing up but I suspect they will go back out after the weather freezes again. I am hearing some very weak guide trips from the local guides I have talked to on the lake. Doesn't look very promising for the next week. Just Sayin! Maybe Wiskers can find some fish?
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Bad as I've ever seen it!:banghead
if he's saying that then IT'S BAD !Quote:
Originally Posted by Wiskers
We have had a tremendous amount of water going through the dams for over a month and I think the crappie are offshore feeding. There hasn't been hardly any shad in the bays most of the winter and early spring. It has been like this for a while now. Some of the worst crappie fishing I have seen except for a very few good days. We keep thinking it is going to get better but I don't know. They will come in eventually like last year for a couple of weeks and then it's over. Going to have to change tactics me thinks. I have been out looking on the main lake and finding a few fish on the drops but they are hard to find. There is a lot of water in these lakes and that means a lot of looking. Just have to enjoy our time being out and take some moon pies and RC colas and watch the wildlife. I have been seeing some funny stuff lately. Those loons are crazy with all their shenanigans flipping around in the water. Saw an otter out on the main lake. Lots of new eaglets this year also.
I have hope!!! Sounds like we are gonna need it!!! I can enjoy a day out on the lake without a fishing pole......but I would love to catch one 16.5 or better!!!! Maybe the luck will take a turn for us. I hope!
Thanks for the replies, not what i was wanting to hear though and i'm sure this cold snap isnt going to help. This might be my only chance to make the trip this spring , so what to do , what to do.
OH well, a bad day fishing is better than another day at work.
Thanks Dog
I'm not sure about the north but I can tell you there are people catching fish in the Blood River area. This weekend may be a different story but last week I heard reports of several big catches down there.
I guess by the some of the post that the bite has changed a lot since last weekend. I thought the bite was decent both Saturday and Sunday afternoon(not on fire by any means).
I can't speak for the seine riggers or long liners but between myself and some of my buddies we found fish casting and vertical jigging in depths anywhere from 7-26 FOW last weekend.Attachment 196456
I hope the fish will turn on. Be heading down March 30th, staying until the 3th. Also be staying at Jonathan Creek. My first time being there and being excited is a understatement. I will be in a red Ranger boat spider rigging,if u see me come over say hello and we can swapped notes.
LittleJohn
Jonathan still muddy and got over 1 1/2 inches of rain last night and today.
The crappie are biting well in the Big Sandy area near Paris, TN. I know of a number of limits that have been caught in the last few days by folks trolling and long-lining, particularly in the New Hope and Country Junction areas of Big Sandy.
Fished from last Saturday till yesterday tough would be an understatement. I stayed at Ken lake and fished Jonathan Sugar and Blood Rv. Fished pretty much from date to dark every day.
While did I manage to catch some fish I had to cover ALOT of water. Early on i could only get bit between 18-22 ft deep. Tuesday i found some as shallow as 6-8 ft deep. No matter where I found them bites where few and far between.
On the plus side I did get to me a fellow crappie.com member CAllen we spent a couple mornings cruising side by side trying to figure things out.
I would head to big sandy. Some buddies have been catching a bunch. They caught several limits tues and weds.
From what I'm hearing, the further south ya go the better the bite.
I've talked to every fisherman I've gotten within earshot of and more often than not when I as how they're do'n the reply is, "Haven't got a fish" or "we've got a couple."
I'm catching some quallity fish but the numbers are WAY DOWN from what I'm used to. I've fished everything from 30' to the banks. Caught fish at darn near every level but not many. When fish are spread out like that it ain't good.
Most productive zone seems to be from 9' to 14' for me where I've been fish'n. Deeper side of that zone has yealed the better fish.
I'm not an expert but I believe that the Main Lake has more warm water than the bays and the fish know the bays are unstable right now. Sure there are a few fish in the bays and some exploring the shallower water but the main thrust of fish just haven't moved in yet. Heck... The Dogwoods haven't even got leaves on'um yet! I've bout had my belly full of this E/NE wind too!!!
TVA officially starts raising the lake on Apr. 1. Well here we are less than a week before the 1st and they are sucking her back to winter pool like Kytitelok said they would.
Only bright side I see is withe the fish running late, maybe the lake levels will be stable enough by the tome they spawn that we'll get a good one this year.
Them fish are just waitin on me to get there. Be patient
Get'em Bill ...Quote:
Originally Posted by wilbur
Rickie