I feel like the Lone Ranger. Not going to post anymore if you guys don"t.

Hey,,,what gives? I see that over 400 views on one of my postings, but no postings for a week by anybody? So I am not going to post anymore of my fishing trips. Not going to tell you that I caught 22 today. It was slow. Took me over 6 hrs and they were 10" from 12". I did throw back numerous 9.5 inch fish and smaller. Not going to tell you some of the females are spawned out with others still not quite ready. Not going to tell you the water looked awesome and temp started at 71 at 6:45 am and at 2 pm it was 76. Not going to tell you only 6 other boats were fishing Lemmon and they were fishing the banks and shallow water and not catching anything at all. Not going to tell you they sprayed all the weeds around everybodys docks, and in front of their houses and that they should have fished where they didn't spray. :Rofl Not going to tell you my area of the creek channels didn't produce and I had to find them in a diff. area 10-14' deep. Not going to tell you the colors of the crankbaits I was using or the depth they were running or the speed change up I made. Temp this morning launching was 54 and by 2pm it was 84,,,hot and calm, and no breeze. Didn't even have but 4 maybe pleasure boaters out then. Also caught 3 bass, largest was about 3 lbs, and got into a school of yellow perch, kept a couple about 11 inches. Not even going to post a pic of todays catch unless you guys start posting what your doing. :biggrin Keep fishing. :fish

I'm not going to tell you how much I enjoyed your post.....but you must be more detailed on the specifics...great catch & pic....

I'll try to make a post of our next trip. I havent been taking pictures, as nothing too eventful has happened lately. Really hate to make a post describing that I dont know what Im doing, and we spent 5+ hours to catch a handful of mediocre fish!

Daughter and I went to Lemon on Monday afternoon. Found water that was 75 degrees and the water was really dirty. Did manage to catch a few, had two 12 in crappie, 4 10 in crappie and a half dozen bluegill. Crappies were all caught using a crappie slider chat with orange fire tail and a Kalins triple threat in john deere color. The bluegill all were caught on had tied jigs that I tie chart head/black squirrel tail body.All fish came in 6 to 8 feet of water.Water was to muddy to see any bluegill nests, but never had a hit in shallow water where I had found them before. When we put in the lot had room for a couple of boats and only 2 trailers in over flow parking. When we took out, we were the only trailer in the lot. Stll had a good time fishing with daughter. Oh I forgot, she is 34 and I am 63.

I had to bump my trolling speed,today up to 1.7 to 2.0 mph changing it running cranks almost on the bottom changing the depths as the lake depth would change from 10' to 14'. Because of the weed kill, it was a pita to keep weeds off the hooks. Water was clearing up very nicely. If running next to the bank, I stayed out from it in 10' to. 12' also. Bass went back in the lake. There are some chunky yellow perch in the lake as well. Ate the perch and 8 crappies tonite. Main parking lot today was never full. Will play on Monroe tomorrow and see if I can snag a walleye.

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I'll try to make a post of our next trip. I havent been taking pictures, as nothing too eventful has happened lately. Really hate to make a post describing that I dont know what Im doing, and we spent 5+ hours to catch a handful of mediocre fish!

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Your learning as I have read your postings on Main Forum. Make your postings any time and if you have any questions, always ask. We all will try and help as best as possible.

Not going to tell you about my last weekend trip of about 50 bluegills. Not going to tell you about the awesome trip turning bad when my phone dropped into the lake faster than when the asteroid knocked off the dinosaurs. It's still too soon. Can't talk about it... sad face


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This thread is too funny. not! I will not keep from laughing. Maybe. rotfl

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Not going to tell you about my last weekend trip of about 50 bluegills. Not going to tell you about the awesome trip turning bad when my phone dropped into the lake faster than when the asteroid knocked off the dinosaurs. It's still too soon. Can't talk about it... sad face


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how did you send this IF your phone fell in the water?? I guess you're not going to tell that part? :Rofl

Maybe he has one of those fancy blue toothy things that not only wireless but waterless? Not! rotfl

I am not going to take or post photos of all those 6 to 8 inch crappies I keep catching on Patoka:deadhorse:deadhorse:deadhorse. Enjoy your photos and info.

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I am not going to take or post photos of all those 6 to 8 inch crappies I keep catching on Patoka:deadhorse:deadhorse:deadhorse. Enjoy your photos and info.

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I feel for ya and I haven't fished Patoka yet this year and it used to be the only lake Iwould fish all year long. And I have drove down there twice and looked at it as it's only 25 miles or so as the crow flies.

Here is 5/20 crappie USA results as they are dismal as well. DNR stocked more than 6 million walleye fry in it in 2016 again and years before 30 million or more. You would think we would have an abundance of walleye as well.


Crappie USA :: Tournament Results

Dogwood sucks anymore and the weeds are now choking it as well as West Boggs. I give up on those 2 also. I bought a yearly admission to Boggs and won't go back anymore this year.

wife wont let me leave the house

I don't know how to fish.....I'm just here to live through you guys

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Since when do you listen to your wife? :Rofl Then again, maybe she has yanked on your chain. :biggrin

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Yah Yah. Your like me. You can't stand not to fish! :cheers2

i havent been crappie fishing much this year. been hard on the gills and bass. you guys dont want to know about them on here. lol also you big res. guys have to remember, we have small lakes in the northern part of the state. there are no talent bottom feeders types on here that will converge on your lake like locusts. that will ruin a 200acre lake fast. ruin the 10spot parking lot even faster. also dont fool with as many pics as i used to.



what happened to patoka lake anyhow? it used to have a great rep.

Don't give away small lakes your fishing. As for Patoka, schools of shad bigger than crapppies abound. That is what ruined the gill fishing. 5 yrs ago, I was posting pics of 14" crappie limits on crankbaits when it flooded and went over spillway out of Painter Creek. I think the too mild of winters is not creating the shad kills like we used to have. You really have to fish all day hard now, sort the dinks just to have a few crappie to even clean if your that lucky to find 10" fish. When we had the first bass tourneys on the lake, first 3-4 yrs, we had 1000 lb weigh ins, several years later the norm was 300 lb weigh ins, now its way less. Fishing pressure is heavy as well. Patoka can always come back as it may be in a turn down time frame. Hope so.

Haven't been for a while last time I fished Patoka was the Friday before the crappie USA tourney. Hate that too bought some cranks since then and they are getting dusty. Headed to KY lake Thursday MRDUX is going to show me how to catch them.

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Haven't been for a while last time I fished Patoka was the Friday before the crappie USA tourney. Hate that too bought some cranks since then and they are getting dusty. Headed to KY lake Thursday MRDUX is going to show me how to catch them.

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MRDUX is da man and he will be a pleasure to learn cranking from. Hope you catch a boatload of fish too.

We will be on Barkley starting Wedesday. Hope you learn a lot from Mrdux.

We will be down Thursday stay and eat at Patty's. Fish on Friday.

We will be at Eddycreek till Saturday.