Has anyone been catching on t ville
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Has anyone been catching on t ville
Lucky to catch a keeper at Taylorsville
I was there Monday and only had 7-8 with zero keepers.
Fished about 4 hours. Water stained to muddy and up a couple foot. Temp was 47-48 deg.
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Same here, all small no keepers. Scared that lake may be getting over fished.
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It is heavily fished for sureQuote:
Originally Posted by CentKyPaddler
I'm sure that the Spring floods (Mar/Apr/May) over the last several years hasn't helped much, either.
That lake has killer habitat. From my experience the past few years and others that I have talked to it’s all the same thing, nothing like it used to be. Not sure what exactly is the reason but definitely not what it was.
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True ... but that would depend on how far back you're talking. I remember when you could catch 50 Crappie on 60 casts and not one of them would be a 9" keeper. Farther back than that and you could catch a 3yr old Crappie that was barely 6-7" long and you could practically see thru them.Quote:
Originally Posted by CentKyPaddler
But, yeah, it does seem like in the last several years (since they put the 10" size limit on) if you don't get into the 12-14" fish around the spawn, then you may not see but a couple two or three of that size the rest of the year. At least for me, anyway. :dono
Like has been said, there's plenty of bait & habitat for them in that lake ... but it seems like it only took one year of people catching Slabs early in the year, then they upped the size limit. IF I'm not mistaken, I've heard that taking a large percentage of the total number of Crappie from a lake will prompt them to produce even more than if a low percentage are taken out. I remember the F&W folks saying they upped the size limit to give the fish more time to get to 10"-12" or more, but I'm not sure that's working as planned.
My success rate on Taylorsville, since the size limit increase, has dropped off to the point where I'm more inclined to drive the extra 30mins and go to Green ... not to mention that I can clean my fish while there, and not have to bring them home & clean them. And I can always stay at Tim's "Getaway" cabin and make a 2day trip out of it.
Went Saturday. Day started out cold and slow. Water very stained and 49 degrees but eventually got to 54. Tried finding fish suspended in deep water but no luck. Moved closer to the bank and found them anywhere from 12'-15' in 25' of water. Two of us caught 70-80 fish on minnows but only 8 keepers. Lots of fish in the 9"-9 1/2" class but plenty a lot smaller than that. BTW, good luck finding bait. Elmer's was out, Settlers Trace is leveled and Briar Ridge has a few. Does anyone know if Karem's sells minnows?
Got on water just after daylight this morning. Only fished 1 spot because I wanted to be home early. Came off the water at 11:30 and the place looked like grand central station.
Caught 22 but zero keepers.
Vertical fishing in 24-28 FOW using Livescope. Tried to target some larger fish off the rest of the school but no luck. All the fish were in the 8-9 1/2 inch range.
Maybe a slot keeping everything up to 12 inches would help.
Who knows. I was there last Monday when the state was shocking for breeding fish. Didn’t see much over 11 inches from I could tell.
I did see a couple boats catching short fish while they were spider rigging, pushing minnows and jigs.
Every time I go there I say I’ll never go back. Lol
Chuck
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Same here Chuck Adams. But myself and oldest son got on water about 11 30 from Settlers. Stayed till 6 30. Water stained to muddy. Pushed jigs and Minnows. Caught about 60 8 to 9 1/2 inches. 4 keepers. one 10 1/2 one just little over 11 two over 12. We caught more on jigs than Minnows Water temp got to 58.9 by 4 o clock. A LOT OF BOATS out there today. Just about all Crappie fishing. Seen maybe 5 Boats Bass fishing. I keep saying i wont go back to. About time to start other Lakes. My thinking Tville Crappie getting Fished to hard.
Pan Fish
What’s the deal with the fish there?
Not many black crappie and the white crappie are small?
I’ve only been fishing there 4 years.
Never caught a fish over 1 1/2 lb.
I intentionally rigged my jigs with odd colored plastic today hoping the fish hadn’t seen the color combo before.
I got to Settlers about 7:30 and probably 25 boat trailers in lot.
I’ll probably go back because it gives me screen time on Livescope but never rely on taking home too many sandwiches.Its a good a good place to practice because of abundance of fish.
Chuck
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One thing I've noticed at Taylorsville is that the Black Crappie seem to mingle in with the Whites a lot more than other lakes I've fished. No big surprise to me to catch two or three Whites off a spot & then the next fish be a Black Crappie. :donoQuote:
Originally Posted by Chuck Adams
As far as big fish in numbers, I haven't seen that or heard it over the last few years ... except during the spawning period, and even then it's not as many reports as the years before. I'm thinking that once the word got out about the 12-15" fish being caught the lake got a lot more pressure than normal, especially during the spawning periods when water levels were stable. Several years of that happening may have depleted most of those bigger fish, then plus the raising of the size limit put more pressure on the remaining keeper size fish & now we may have to wait another year or two for all these 9.5" fish to survive and grow to those Slab size lengths.
And yet, the KDFWR 2021 Taylorsville forecast for Crappie is "good to excellent" :scratchhead
Same report here. 2 of us fished Sunday 60 plus fish with 9 keepers. Plenty of boats. Lost count of the 9 1/2 in fish we caught. Water was just a touch cleaner around the dam area.
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CHuck I really dont know what happen to the Fish. I fished thru there before there was a lake fishing the river. Caught good Crappie. Started fishing the lake once it was ready.
Back then you would catch a bunch of 8 to 10 inch Crappie. You didnt see then Crappie fishing like today. F&W put a size limit hoping to make it bigger Crapie lake. My thinking could be wrong. When they put hybrids in kind of hurt the Crappie. They love to eat Crappie. I dont know. I dont know what it will take to make the lake better for Crappie.
I use to fish Green River lake a bunch also. It is just about the sameway. You will catch a bunch of small fish before catching a 9 inch keeper.
I go to Ky Lake first of April each year. This year will be second week because got some work to do before i can go. We stay till mothers day. We catch Crappie there. Seems like you will catch a 10 inch keeper about every 3rd fish. With the Carp issue there really hurt the Crappie. But Ky Lake is a bigger lake with river systems feeding it. My thinking there is that helps on Crappe numbers. Tville has Salt River to feed it and not as big as Ky Lake which may not help Crappie much. I dont know just my thinking.
YES its fun to catch Crappie but like to catch a mess of keepers once in a while to.
PAPPIE I have noticed that to. You will catch Whites right in with the Blacks at Tville. Me either dont understand that. Other lakes you will catch Blacks first of the spwan then the Whites right after. With the fishing pressure the last few years Tville i believe it has hurt Crappie. Same with Green River lake to. Dont know what it will take to fix it.
When this lake got hot about 4-5 years ago, the word got out. The lake has been pounded ever since. Last year it was amazing to see how many people were spider rigging and trolling cranks and jigs... and catching fish. This was all pre-spawn, spawn and post spawn by my observation but there were tons of boats every time I went. I did talk to the creel survey gentleman up near Chowning one day last year. He said that F&W was concerned about all the fish being taken out of the lake and asked if I would support an 11" size limit. Personally, I would but I don't really know the biology behind size limits. An 11" fish is so much better than a 10" fish. I also know the assistant director of fisheries at F&W and he said that a move to the 11" size range is really not in the plan right now.
What good would a 11 inch size limit do??? You cant catch a 10 inch size limit now. And what would lowering the creel limit from 15 to down to 10??? Can hardly catch 15. Years ago F&W lower it from 60 to 30. From 30 to 20. 20 to 15 and uped the size limit. Thats not working.
Karen’s does sell minnows but they sell out too so call first 267-5323Quote:
Originally Posted by Newlight
Most definitely all the keepers are gone. Y’all should definitely fish Green/Rough/Barren on the weekends that I’m off.
:Rofl ... you won't have any competition from me on weekends. It's bad enough during the week, what with all the rippers & runners, wave makers, and such.Quote:
Originally Posted by BCO
Heck, I'm not all that stoked to fish Green on a weekend, for much of the same reasons. :Doh:
Just need to get livescope dialed in and you can pick them while you rip down the lake!
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I've never fished Taylorsville, and only Green once, but am reading this thead and the similar thread about Green with interest...
We can all speculate about what should be done to make the crappie fishing better, aside from not over-fishing a lake. But it seems to me that if lots of 8-9" fish are being caught and no keepers, then something like a slot limit might be worth a try. Not many people want to mess with cleaning 9.5" crappie, but maybe it wouldn't be so bad to let them have them, and throw back most of the 12"+ fish.
The problem with crappie fishing is we like to eat them too much :Rofl
My naive opinion on Taylorsville. It’s an absolute fish factory! That being said, I feel a very large percentage of the legal fish are being harvested much faster the last few years. There used to be an abundance of 8.5 - 8.75 inch fish when the limit was 9in. Now there are a lot of 9.5-9.75 inchers. I feel like the fish are healthy and grow just fine with abundant numbers. The harvest rate is affecting the ratio of keepers:shorts.
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I live close by taylorsville lake. Grew up fishing this lake. The last 2-3 years this lake has been fished harder than I've ever seen. Noticing that a there are more and more license plates from out of state. This is the power of the internet. Soon as one person catches a limit of nice crappie and post it to the internet the whole state and surrounding states flock to Tville. The last few weeks I've caught maybe 50-70 crappie just fishing a few hours here and there. Only 2 keeprs. Im definitely not an expert crappie fisherman but enjoy being on the water. These crappie tournaments, with experts fishing in them, are weighing in good numbers. I feel like the crappie are there but its going to take a couple more years to produce fish for the average fisherman like myself. Just for an example of how hard the lake was fished last year... People were waiting over an hour to get on and/or leave the lake. At those times I didnt even bother taking the boat out. Fished from the bank and picked up enough crappie for supper. Lol May not be getting many for supper this year. Not sure how fast a crappie will grow but maybe this fall there will be some kept for the table.
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Green fish makes a good point about harvest rate. The last 2 years, I have seen many posts on this site of guys taking 4-5 people fishing and all keeping their limit, seemingly everytime they went. That is legal yes, but is it responsible? I think the COVID shutdown increased the number of boats on the water too. Just my 2 cents. Sometimes we have to police ourselves.
Couldn't agree more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crapnute
just because that's what is allowed, doesn't mean one needs to keep a limit day after day...
But these days, you know, everyone has this sense of 'entitlement'...smh
Add in the new crazy electronics and multiply by the pandemic and you have our current situation most everywheres...
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