Me and the Amish.

Picked boat up after being serviced and wanted to check it out. Headed to Laurel Hill Lake hoping to find the big Gills. Didn't find the big boys but did have a nice relaxing day catching fish. Got into some 8 inch Gills and shellcrakcers....and surprised to find a spot that had crappie stacked up on it. These things were in 2 feet of water. Thought that odd as water temps were in mid 80's and the spot had no cover at all. The crappie were all in the 10-11 inch range. Even caught a few green sunfish. Just an enjoyable day on a 360 acre lake with only me and 3 Amish fishing out of kayaks. They were jug fishing for cats....and they loaded their coolers. I left same time they did and thought it was funny seeing a horse drawn buggy with kayaks loaded on them and headed down the highway. I didn't take any pics but I caught around 7 catfish myself on the Trout Magnet. They love the Trout Magnet but I don't even want them in my boat...LOL. Used an UL rod and twitched a Bison colored Trout Magnet for the day. Rod was strung with 2# test SOS line. All in all a nice day. Life is good!


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Funny pic,we have trouble with the Amish in our neck of the woods,they are known to take more game than allowed,and ignore those yellow signs folks hang on trees,how is the catfish population in that lake now?

Looks like another very pleasant day on the water!

Nice job. I haven't been to Laurel Hill since I was a kid. Do they have a horse power limit or is it electric only? I remember us renting a boat and bringing a motor or trolling motor it has been over 40 years. I need to plan a trip sometime maybe camp at Davy Crockett Park and fish Laurel Hill.

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Originally Posted by flintcreek

Nice job. I haven't been to Laurel Hill since I was a kid. Do they have a horse power limit or is it electric only? I remember us renting a boat and bringing a motor or trolling motor it has been over 40 years. I need to plan a trip sometime maybe camp at Davy Crockett Park and fish Laurel Hill.

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You can run whatever boat you want in there....no matter the horse power.


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Originally Posted by Yaker

Funny pic,we have trouble with the Amish in our neck of the woods,they are known to take more game than allowed,and ignore those yellow signs folks hang on trees,how is the catfish population in that lake now?

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I don't know if they break game laws around here or not but I do know they are catch and eat...LOL......and if it has two eyes, no matter how small it is going home with them. The cat fishing is really good in Laurel Hill.


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Very nice day

Alphahawk, thanks for the info enjoy your posts...Like the picture of the carriage loaded with kayaks.

Sounds like a good day,nice pics.

That is a cool pic of the yaks. I have some Amish friends and they are great folks. Do anything for you anytime. We had a tornado and they were there for days with saws and buggies.

The Amish here in our Country. Shoot or catch all they want. Limit only matters if they get caught. They do not wear orange and will tell you there Bishop tells them they can't wear it. Most land owners have told them, not to sit foot on there property. No Orange no hunting, were going to have issues with them again. As we also told them no hunting.
Our 3 stock ponds were stocked with fish. Now there just stocked with water. One guy caught them in his pond. They had 2 60Qt cooler of fish, Now he had stocked that 4 acer pond with catfish. And fed them every evening to have a place for his grand kids to fish. Sad they don't want you on there property. But have no issues crossing the line over on others. I have seen them shoot a deer 200 yds over on us. AS there stand used to be on the tree on my side of the Property line. Tn has a 100Yd deal even if you own the land. You can't set up a sand or hunt within 100 YDs of a property line.
One of the kids here last year. Killed 78 deer that he turned in.Most of them do not tag in there deer. Just take it home and keep killing more. Out of that 78 deer theres 27 racks hanging on there smoke house. Funny part is only lived here 18 months.:banghead I know lots of people think there great folks. But let them move in and thow up a sawmill. Burn 24 hours a day, Smoke so thick you can't open a window or Door. Then see how happy your with the great Amish Neighbors. We have had lots of older people move. AS they cant' breath because of all the smoke.
I get along with them, but Feel they need to go by the same laws we have to go by. Like they need to take a hunter and safety course same as my grand kids have to. Wear Orange the same as the rest of us. Go by our laws on limits.

Here we have them pulling a trailer behind the buggy. And they have a john boat on the back trailer. 3 of them did get a ticket a few weeks ago. Way over the limit on Bass and crappie. All were under the length limit and no life vest in the boat.

This is a fishing report. Let's not get off topic and turn it into an Amish-bashing thread.

Could just be a uncle or some cousin of mine,, grandparents were born a raised Amish up in La Grange County IN,,,,, wonder what happened to me , a beer drinking gear head that swears like a sailor,,,, can still remember 55 years ago going to my dads uncles house/farm as a 6 year old,,, all I can say very strange as seen from kid from Southern Cali,,,,,thanks for posting ,,,,,,,,Dale Miller

Pete is whistle blowing.

Tom getting closet to shutting down there smoke & noise filled sawmill. Unreal they will burn a semi load of slabs a day. But will not give them away. Guy asked about getting a load for firewood. Told him they were $40 per load.