Grenada Fishing Report

But it was from a few weeks back. Matter of fact, about 3,060 weeks. Stole this off of face book. It was taken in 1959 in front of Wilkey's Royal Bait Shop which is now 333 Restaurant.

I count 30 or so fish in the pic. The interesting things to me is:

1) No, all fish were not 4 pounders back then
2) Not sure exactly on this, but when the lake opened there was no limit in Crappie. The first limit institutes was 100 per person. So the fact that 30 fish was picture worthy in 1959 tells me that not everybody loaded the boat every time out like I've always heard from the old timers.
3) I still wish I could have fished it back in the day. Attachment 287234


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I remember my father in law talking about green carp fishing and he said if you missed one it was ok, another would hit before the bait was retrieved all the way in. They crappie fished in the spring, not year round and they had something to fish around too.

Can you imagine taking the knowledge and equipment we have today back 50 years and see what you could do.


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Went to Grenada with my dad a few times on a friends house boat. The boat was an old barge made into a houseboat. It had a flat roof and that's where we fished from. We would pull up into the trees and tie off. Trees were everywhere and all of em had leaves on em. We fished with cane poles and minners. Some poles with bobbers and some not. Got hung up a lot and a lot of fish fell off due to the high lift to the roof. Seems like it was a bigun that always fell off. Didn't use nets. It was usually 4 or 5 people fishing and we caught a lot of fish. I don't recall ever seeing fish the size of what we get now. But every once in a while someone would say "oh that's a bigun". One of my dads friends weighed about 4 hundred lbs.. He would eat the inside out of a French loaf of bread and then fill it with a can of pork and beans and eat that. I tried to fish on the opposite end of the boat from him. There was a lot of noise and laughing up there on that roof with a bunch of men. Great memories from an 8 or 9 year old.

I remember that being the Green Door bait shop! But that wasnt to terribly long ago!

Erin, been 20 years I speck. Just wait till you get old!!!!!!

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Dad bought a telescopic 14' rod that the line went inside with the reel on the butt. We spent Easter weekend in Bruce. Traveled hwy 315 and stopped at Prophet's bridge on the way down. The water was high and we parked a good ways from the bridge. He caught 2 good size crappie then we headed on. The next morning we loaded up the car and headed to Grenada back waters along hwy 330. Nothing was biting. A game warden said the spillway was hot so we headed there. This was back when there were large boulders instead of the rocks like now. Our poles were set up with a float 2' from the tip and a minnow about 4' passed the end of the poles. Throw the line out upstream and catch a crappie when the float stood up. There were 3 adults and 2 kids, we filled a #2 wash tub.

4) Goes to show how much better women we're back then. She caught a mess of fish and managed to keep the baby too.

I remember when I moved there in the spring of 74, you could put in at the north end of Graysport, cut back over to old Hy 8 and go almost to Calhoun City. Turn around and fish back along the fence rows and old ponds and load the boat in no time flat. Trees were everywhere. I have a book of tales from that era, we may get in a story telling session one day, it would be a hoot..

We left Calhoun City after visiting family members, we headed west on old #8. Good asphalt for one car most of the way with water lapping both sides of the road. We had a '65 Ford so I was at least 14.

Y'all are reminding me of when I was in high school in the early 60's, in Dillon, Montana. The BOR built a reservoir 20 miles south of town. That lake (Clark Canyon) was an immediate fish factory. 10#-20# brown were caught about every week, and the stocker cutbows averaged 5.5 pounds after a couple of years. Nowadays, the browns are very scarce, the cutbows average more like 3#, and the lake is filled with carp and suckers from the guys who used small carp and suckers for bait and then threw them into the lake.

Thanks for shearing that WB

The alligator was probably in there then.