Blue grass Pit at Blue Grass F&W Area

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I was over there Sat and Sun and there were fish being caught in the shallows. Water temperature on the main part of the lake was around 48 to 49 deg F at the surface and about 50 deg F in the shallow bays on the West Side at the South End of the pit. I check the North end of the secondary bays. These are secondary to the main bay on the right as you go from the concrete launch ramp northward and come ot the first bay on your right. Go into the bay and then go into the two bays on the left side of that bay. I didn't make it down to the Second bay north of the concrete boat ramp. I just played around with my Humminbird and tried out the new software.

I may go later in this week and actually do some crappie fishing.

One guy offered to give me 5 or 6 nice while crappie. I estimate that some of them were 12" or so. A couple of them were 10" or so. Nice crappie for that lake at this time of the year. And they were full of eggs, well the female were.

If I do go fishing I'll try to write up a report and let you know if the fish are biting.

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I fished Blue Grass Pit today and caught 5 crappie about 10" in size. Caught two small bass as well. It was a nice sunny day after 3 pm. Water temperature was up in the mid fifties.

But I think that the IDNR needs to kill the algae that's growing all around the edge of the lake. That stuff is ugly and bad. Slimey doesn't do it justice. It gets on everything. Props and fishing lures. It even plugged up the water intake on my live well. Now I have to try to figure out a way to get all the algae out of the intake piping and the pump. That stuff *****.

I hope that the property manager at Sugar Ridge (which also manages Bluegrass ) will do something to kill the excessive algae growth before long.

Bank fisherman can't reel a lure in though that stuff without getting it on the baits and hooks.