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Anyone have any luck this past week at Caesar creek lake or EastFork lake for crappie? Do you think the fish kill will have an effect on East fork this spring? Looking to take my father in law Thursday if they are moving up just lookin for a little hope.
Thanks Bassky:pray
Hoping to hear about EF myself. With the river high, I'll be heading there Friday. I'll report then if someone else doesn't report first.
I went late last year, after the kill - and fished the mid to lower end of the lake like I usually do. It's hard to tell from that sample size as the fish move but I did find that the crappie I caught were smaller on average than they had been all year in that spot.
I am thinking of putting in at the campground and fishing the upper end of the lake on Friday. I also think they might spawn early this year. Not quite yet but getting close.
Has anyone have water temps? I know it is murky and pulling a lot of water. Might go thursday. If i go I will post a report.
Bassky
Last week it was mid - upper 40's
Friend told me EF was 55-62 yesterday, muddy and they are pulling it down hard, which sounds a lot warmer than Cmax's readings, maybe a its off a little but sounds like its warming up nicely
Tom, your friend could be right. My reading was from last week. 2 weeks ago we had that little snow and some of the creeks which had started to warm a little had dropped back to the low 40's.
I did hit 50 degrees in one small spot late in the day last Tuesday.
All the lakes in this area should be warming up with the combo of muddy water and lots of sun. I was hoping to get up to Cowan 1 day in the next few weeks that lake has some real pigs in it.
Went last Friday to EF and temp was 53. Got 8 keeper but caught them deep. Muddy
Too windy today pulling water stayed home. Gonna try Caesars Saturday, weather permitting.
Bassky
River & creeks are high & muddy.
River and creeks are high & muddy
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My dad and I spent the afternoon at East Fork yesterday. Mainly experimenting with the lake as I've only been there once since the fish kill.
We did ok. Not great. Caught 27 crappie. We fished the mid section of the lake in our usual places and went to the upper end and fished as well. Water temps were high 50s and almost 60 at the upper end. However, lake was heavily stained/lightly muddy. Sunny, and much windier than I expected.
So, not ideal fishing conditions. We did catch a number of dinks but also at least 7 fish that were 10-10.5". They were almost all caught in 8-12 foot of water, usually down 4-6 feet. I think the spawn is still a couple weeks away.
Still - was somewhat encouraging to me that we were able to catch some decent size fish out of the lake. I'm convinced it will still be a good fishing lake - and backup for me when the river is too high :)
I should add those were surface temps and water was muddy. I think it's going to cool off with these temps this weekend.
I was out for a few hours yesterday too. I had a similar day and had a half a dozen or so over 10". I agree it was windier than I expected.
My day got cut short when I looked down and seen my gas gauge sitting on "E"....oops!
I went and fished on the rocks at the dam (I didn't feel like dragging the boat out) this past week. I caught fish, but they were all small. I would agree that they're probably a couple weeks out still.
fish kill no impact caught some of biggest fish there 2 weekends ago .they were not deep