Kayak Trip Report, Rockhouse Dewatering Area

I put my kayak in behind the pumps at the Rockhouse Dewatering Area this morning. Slow start until I tried a Pink & Pearl Bobby Garland, then game on. The Crappie would hit so hard I thought they were going to knock the rod out of the rod holder. I caught a 100 plus, keeping a limit. I also returned four slabs 15 inches or over (I had to keep two others that I deep hooked). The water is only two to three feet deep, spider rigging six poles, with jigs about 12 to 18 inches deep. The water was 83 degrees and very muddy with visibility of inches.


I think I've got the bugs worked out and my new kayak setup. I'll take a few photo's later this week and post when I have some time.


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Here's the two slabs that I deep hooked.

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I decided to get a weight on them. Not the most accurate scales, but they should be close.

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Awesome catch..

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Looks like you have got their number. Very nice crappie, great job! Looking forward to seeing pictures of the yak.

Ditch is the dewatering area off Jolly B Road? I have never been over in he Blackwell Swamp area. I have been aiming to ride over sometime, some of the guys from work used to ride over and take pictures of 2 gators over there on lunch they told me they were almost in the same place sunning every day.

Flint Creek,

Cut and paste this into Google Maps.

34.559101, -86.836705

Fish get in when the lake floods across the road. During the summer the areas is pumped down to just the creek with a couple feet of water in it. I debated about posting, but it seems like it's over populated with Crappie right now, many of these were really skinny. I'm hoping taking a few out will help the overall population. I put back a couple fish in the 17 inch range, hope to get them next spring for the wall.

Congrats, that is the best catch I have seen come from Ala. waters in a while.

Boy Howdey

Really nice fish! Way to go,ditch

Nice catch!

WTG ditch!

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Great catch

John Doe,

I see you just joined, welcome to Crappie.com!

FYI, I fished this area with alexava last year and returned several nice fish on that trip also. It always holds some nice fish, just hard to get into, hard to fish and full of gar, carp and snakes. Of course if it was easy, everyone would be fishing there, LOL.

That's an awesome day in there. Did you get back up around the corner or just the one big straight away. Funny how it wasn't until you got the pink on that they started knocking it so hard. WTG!!

:notworthy

Bob,

Around the corner in the open water this trip. They move around a lot, never seem to be in the same location.

Good job, I've been looking at a kayak for the exercise purposes myself

Awesome!

Nice catch, one of those days to remember for sure!

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Originally Posted by Ditch Basser

I put my kayak in behind the pumps at the Rockhouse Dewatering Area this morning. Slow start until I tried a Pink & Pearl Bobby Garland, then game on. The Crappie would hit so hard I thought they were going to knock the rod out of the rod holder. I caught a 100 plus, keeping a limit. I also returned four slabs 15 inches or over (I had to keep two others that I deep hooked). The water is only two to three feet deep, spider rigging six poles, with jigs about 12 to 18 inches deep. The water was 83 degrees and very muddy with visibility of inches.


I think I've got the bugs worked out and my new kayak setup. I'll take a few photo's later this week and post when I have some time.


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Here's the two slabs that I deep hooked.

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I decided to get a weight on them. Not the most accurate scales, but they should be close.

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Good job DB!


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