I hear folks say state lakes have no good crappie in them . I tell them they are right ! they will eat a minnow as well . Attachment 264648
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I hear folks say state lakes have no good crappie in them . I tell them they are right ! they will eat a minnow as well . Attachment 264648
Wow! Nice crappie.
Nice catch Mr. Curtis, you are exactly right, most over look these state lakes and it's a shame. Just got to find me an 1/100th oz jig and some 1/1000 minners and I will be all set.. :biggrin
Main problem with State Lakes is keeping them from draining them..They need to repair one then work on another
I was actually cleaning put some backup drives and found a slew of state lake depth maps that the mdwfp has on the website that I'd georeferenced ( turned them into a map with lat/long coordinates) for use on a cell phone and some in at5 format to be put onto lowrance units. When I getta chance I'm gonna load em onto a dropbox folder and post up a link for folks who would like to use em.
I love fishing kemper lake. It's got tons of huge specks in it, and when a white crappie gets on, he's gonna be a biggun. I caught a 3lber outta there a couple summers back spider rigging at night.
They say they're gonna drain choctaw lake in july. That's a shame because the fishing in that little lake can be great, and pulling cranks is productive in it as well.
I fish a state lake not too far from the house which has quite a few good fish in it, but most folks don't catch them... Wish I lived closer to some of them further north too!
Get um Coach!
Clear line and cloudy days and the bite is awesome. Next time you get ready leave the promised land to go to kemper, holler at me. I've got hundreds of coordinates with a fee dozen that always produce. Once spot has always been exceptional at night.
Once the sun gets overhead, the specks bury up deep in those tops.
I'm anxious to try my new bullet bobber planer boards out there. With 16 foot poles, I can bump brush tops with a Kentucky rig and catch up to a half dozen fish before they shut off from getting spooked. I have to move on to another top thereafter.I'm hoping the planer boarts will allow me to pick off a larger # of active fish that are suspended above the tops early morning without spooking them.
It's about to get the time of year where I change all my rigs over to "kemper lake" with clear flouro leaders. That's the only thing about the place that I don't like: gotta change my whole setup.
That's a lovely box of specs
Needs to be a state lake or two in the Northwest part of the state