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Post by duratechfa on Jul 12, 2017 11:33:45 GMT -5
My son and I hooked up the boat and headed to the lake late, got on the water around 8PM. Water is the typical summertime pea soup. We still caught a bunch of black and white crappies in 10-12 FOW, all on artificials. The bite ended after dark. Stayed until 11 and never got a bite after dark.
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Post by fishinforlife on Jul 12, 2017 13:30:20 GMT -5
A good evening fishing! We're most of the Crappies a good size?
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Post by duratechfa on Jul 12, 2017 19:05:24 GMT -5
A good evening fishing! We're most of the Crappies a good size? Most were decent size, right on the border of being acceptable to keep (8+ inches) The bigger ones on average were the black crappies. We only kept 6 to make a meal.
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Post by cvllebanger on Jul 12, 2017 22:03:23 GMT -5
Looks like a decent size white crappie in the picture
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Post by fishinforlife on Jul 12, 2017 22:03:39 GMT -5
That's good news! Ive been wanting to try Struble for panfish but I don't know much about that lake! I would be bank fishing. Guess I gotta get up there soon
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Post by MasterBaiter on Jul 13, 2017 10:49:28 GMT -5
Were there any other boats on the lake during your trip?
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Post by duratechfa on Jul 13, 2017 19:03:24 GMT -5
Looks like a decent size white crappie in the picture Yeah it was a nice one. About 8-9 inches. He caught it, and all his other ones on a big power bait swim bait
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Post by duratechfa on Jul 13, 2017 19:05:49 GMT -5
That's good news! Ive been wanting to try Struble for panfish but I don't know much about that lake! I would be bank fishing. Guess I gotta get up there soon Yeah! The other good news is a lot of surface area of the lake is accessible by wading. Where we caught most of our fish you could probably hit with a slip bobber on a long cast.
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Post by duratechfa on Jul 13, 2017 19:08:10 GMT -5
Were there any other boats on the lake during your trip? Tom, there were 3 kayakers when we got there. Seemed to be teenagers, mostly goofing around and chasing each other in the kayaks. Using a lot of foul language that I would have preferred my son not to hear. Oh well. They did have fishing rods with them, however. There was nobody fishing the banks.
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Post by fishinforlife on Jul 13, 2017 19:12:08 GMT -5
Great! Thanks for the info. Hopefully I will get up there soon
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Post by rich250 on Jul 14, 2017 5:35:06 GMT -5
great evening for you and the young man
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Post by wader105 on Jul 14, 2017 8:15:51 GMT -5
just curious, is there anywhere along the shoreline that's off limits/no trespassing? any part that's not wadable?
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Post by cvllebanger on Jul 14, 2017 9:56:04 GMT -5
From what I know of struble the whole lake is fishable from shore or wading but the downside is you are only allowed to park in boat launch parking lot. Someone correct me if I'm wrong
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Post by icemole on Jul 14, 2017 10:54:32 GMT -5
It's been years since I was down(spring time) but there used to be a "path" around the cove at the parking lot down the left side to the dam breast. I used to walk around the cove and wade in at the far side and fish down. If I remember right it drops off pretty quick down near the dam so wading was limited.
Always had similar luck as the OP did mostly smaller crappies with an almost eater thrown in.... However every now and then a big old catfish would gobble down my minnie. Never caught anything else of any size while wading. In the boat while looking for walleye(failed every trip)we'd pick up some nice bass and one year we found nice 10-12" yellow perch.
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Post by MasterBaiter on Jul 14, 2017 14:47:55 GMT -5
Honestly, just about the whole lake is shallow enough to wade. The stump fields to the right of the boat ramp are max 4 ft even 50 yards from the bank. Around to the dam there are very few spots too deep to wade along the bank, one of which is the tunnel where the creek goes under, which you can go around on land over the tunnel itself and re enter the water on the other side. By the dam drops off a bit along the bank but once you get to the duck blind and beyond its quite shallow along the bank again
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