Lilly pads

There was a place we fished when I was a kid. It’s just a slough off of flats far from the river. Then you could fish from the bank but it has been too grown up for years. There was a patch of pads maybe 10 by 20. My grandma would sit there in her lawn chair with a cane pole and minnows and fill a 5 gallon bucket with crappie. That was almost 40 years ago but I’ve been thinking about giving it a try in my kayak. My question is do any of y’all fish Lilly pads this time of year?


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I personally don’t because I spider rig 95% of the time. I know an older fellow that used to smoke the crappie in the Lilly pad stems around hwy 67 in flint. Might be worth a try.

Crappie will spawn on lily pad stems ! and their are good chances that they are some stumps up n those stems ! I’d start on the outer edge and work up into em slowing using a long pole and dipping em like a tree or drop a lite float into them !

They catch them in other places on lilly pads. Worth a try

Man back in the day before TVA killed all the pads in flint we would limit out with a cane pole on a boat drifting through the pads. Usually this time of year they wouldn’t be bloomed to the top just a bunch of branches under the surface. I hate that they sprayed and killed them all. Made for some fun bass fishing too. It totally ruined the fishing and the fish population in that area. Really dumb that they kill natural habitat as a “maintenance” for there NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. pray for the world

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Originally Posted by Slabprowler

Crappie will spawn on lily pad stems ! and their are good chances that they are some stumps up n those stems ! I’d start on the outer edge and work up into em slowing using a long pole and dipping em like a tree or drop a lite float into them !

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Would you use minnows?


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If I had too I would ! But a tube jig or a baby shad ought to work great I’d start with a 1/32nd jig on a long pole and would ease it down into the holes around/in the pads keeping the line tight ease it down on the fall and the rise and be ready for the bite have had then hit it going down and when coming up !
it’s hard to beat a black/chartreuse, red /chartreuse , purple / chartreuse,green/chartreuse tube jig during this time of year ! Especially when fishing vertical ! Or under a cork

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Originally Posted by Slabprowler

If I had too I would ! But a tube jig or a baby shad ought to work great I’d start with a 1/32nd jig on a long pole and would ease it down into the holes around/in the pads keeping the line tight ease it down on the fall and the rise and be ready for the bite have had then hit it going down and when coming up !
it’s hard to beat a black/chartreuse, red /chartreuse , purple / chartreuse,green/chartreuse tube jig during this time of year ! Especially when fishing vertical ! Or under a cork

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Gotcha. I don’t really like using minnows so that’s good. Thanks.


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Wish my lakes had them, they can be great. I have fished them in small lakes

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When I was a kid all I wanted to do was catfish. My grandmother just liked to fish. We’d leave out and just go to random places my granddaddy could think of. We went to this place and I threw liver out and was baiting another one and there goes my rod in the water. My granddaddy got my grandmas cane pole with a bare hook trying to hook my rod. I’ll never forget he said hey hey looka here. He had a big slab off that bare hook coming through those pads. My grandma said the rest of the day I’ll have me some minners next time. And there’s no telling how many crappie she caught there over the next few years.


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You got my wheels turning in my head.... i might beat you to them pads in flint lol... I’m going to pull the boat to work tomorrow and fish wheeler somewhere... not sure if i will go to the Y, or try somewhere new, I’ve been wanting to run up in Swan creek and see if i can find any there.. who knows where I will end up.

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You got my wheels turning in my head.... i might beat you to them pads in flint lol... I’m going to pull the boat to work tomorrow and fish wheeler somewhere... not sure if i will go to the Y, or try somewhere new, I’ve been wanting to run up in Swan creek and see if i can find any there.. who knows where I will end up.

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Just a little info limestone is a mud hole again.


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And speaking of swan creek I really hope that area isn’t muddy Saturday. Lol


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You could put some minners in them up holders on that yak

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Gotcha. I don’t really like using minnows so that’s good. Thanks.


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Originally Posted by catchNgrease

You could put some minners in them up holders on that yak

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Don’t mind using them I just can’t keep them alive long.


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Went and tried them yesterday. Caught a few pretty nice gills but no crappie. Still fun.


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I’ve had some luck in Cooters Pond in the lilies around the RTJ golf course. Like Slabprowler, I dipped a jig in holes. Lilies can be tough when you hang up.


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Originally Posted by John Doe

I’ve had some luck in Cooters Pond in the lilies around the RTJ golf course. Like Slabprowler, I dipped a jig in holes. Lilies can be tough when you hang up.


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Yessir I found that out. Lol


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Originally Posted by Treeshaka

Man back in the day before TVA killed all the pads in flint we would limit out with a cane pole on a boat drifting through the pads. Usually this time of year they wouldn’t be bloomed to the top just a bunch of branches under the surface. I hate that they sprayed and killed them all. Made for some fun bass fishing too. It totally ruined the fishing and the fish population in that area. Really dumb that they kill natural habitat as a “maintenance” for there NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. pray for the world

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We were part of that group as well. Loved fishing the lily pad stems. We always used 17# line so if we ever hooked one you could just pull it out of the bottom without loosing your rig. We loaded the boat in Flint and Susie hole. Not so much anymore though...

I have smoked them in the lilypads in Flint creek voth around Hwy 67 and further down in the big slough that runs under I65 bridge and have caught them both dipping minnows and jigs in the holes or spider rigging the edges of the pads

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Originally Posted by Prater4586

I personally don’t because I spider rig 95% of the time. I know an older fellow that used to smoke the crappie in the Lilly pad stems around hwy 67 in flint. Might be worth a try.

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