Lake Carl Blackwell

Had my good friend Neil Molina in the boat with me this past friday to try and catch him a few crappie. Our trip turned out to be a good one. We found some good fish in 20' of water fishing 14-18' down. Almost every keeper fish we caught was either spitting shad up on the deck or in the livewell. Last 3 trips out the fish have been feeding heavy on shad and at times looks like their bellies are going to explode. We found fish in 20' of water in several stops but only one spot were they stacked up in a decent sized group. Other spots they were more scattered. Fish were all near structure. Not really in it, just had to have structure close by. Hair jigs and 2" tubes were the baits of choice that day. Was a great day to be on the water with warmer temps and little to no wind the whole time we were in the boat. Finished the trip with 35 keeper crappie. We have to do some work on that 6 fish hold.

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Josh, Take me out again because I can use the practice on the 6 finger fish hold. LOL. I mean Ranger 09 has lots of practice and he spread those fish out like a champ.

For those who fish the dock it has been pretty slow. You can catch a few here and there. I kept 20 Saturday fished from 1-5:30

Wow, nice trip you two! Glad you all made a trip!


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Great report, thanks Josh. I keep saying I’m gonna get the boat out there, and you’re definitely motivating me!

Nice catch. Can you give me a water temp for BW? Thanx, may give the hybrids a try in this great weather. 😎👍

jiles58. it was running between 44-46 depending on area of lake. we cruised out west at one point to check some trees and the WT was warmer but main lake was staying around 44-46

Thanx, appreciate the info. 😎👍

Great day congrats!!!!


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Blackwell is a great lake for good eaters. Glad you guys got out

Fishing fairly slow, but there are a few really nice fish being caught. Orange hair jig has worked pretty well.

Kenny and I tried Salt Creek at Keystone for three hours, getting a total of four dinks and a largemouth. Moved to CB and tore 'em up, getting 84 crappie, mostly on ice spoons and some on hair jigs and plastic. The only problem was that only four fish made 10 inches and none made 10.5 inches. But, as usual, it was a good day to get out and share time with a friend.

Some people are gluttons for punishment. After catching two big blue cats yesterday afternoon at Ft. Cobb and then striking out on the crappie at the marina (didn't even see anyone catch a keeper), we decided to hit CB again today. Dinks were there by the thousands. Everyone was fishing deep, but I kept having dinks hit the frayed dacron line that I was using for depth measurement. The dacron knot was sinking about two feet under the surface at the far end of the dock, and as I raised the ice spoon, the frayed line was getting bit. I pulled the spoon up to about two feet down and got bit constantly as soon as I raised the spoon. Other guys started fishing near the surface, and between deeper fish and surface fish, there were about 600 dinks caught (literally). As we were about to leave, a suicidal almost-twelve-incher hit my spoon. In the next ten minutes, Kenny and I got six keepers.
ps The speculation was that saugeyes may have been down deep, and that's why so many dinks were at the surface.:dono

Where’s the pics BigSky?
Glad you all got out, and gave the fish what for.


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