Patoka crappie report 11/25

Got out on the water around 11:00am and headed to one of my spots in Lick Fork about 7 miles away. I spent probably an hour there and in that area fishing other piles and didn't catch the first fish. Tried minnows with no luck, then used 3 different color of tubes with no luck so I went bass fishing since the area I was in looks so good. Caught one around 3lbs on a spinnerbait and for the next hour nothing. So I decided to move to another hole with much deeper water around it and again nothing. I could see fish on my depthfinder but couldn't get any to bite so I moved after about 30min. to another hole with 30'/35' of water around the brushpile. This is about as deep as I ever fish so I dropped the minnows down and started catching fish one after another till I got a limit. None were over 12" and none were under 9". All were fat and still have good color to them. The water temp is right at 50 degrees everywhere I went. What really amazed me today is most of the fish I caught were dead on the bottom in 26' to 32' of water and I mean dead on the bottom. I caught some out away from the cover and I caught some right down in the cover and through it near the bottom. I went to 1/2oz of weight tightlinning since the wind was blowing off and on all day and never from the same direction it seemed. Ya'll know what I'm talking about with the wind. Since I lost a number of sinkers I either need to find a bunch of them cheap or start making them myself. Nice day to be out fishing and didn't see a handfull of boats all day. I was getting concerned I was going home skunked since I told the wife I'd get enought for several meals. Got lucky again.

One other thing Patoka is so high you would have to be very carefull to get a bassboat under the 145 highway bridge. The lake is that high but the water is clear on the main lake.



Larry

Sounds like you had to work for them today. I'm watching the football games right now and it's halftime. I tried to get ahold of you but must have missed you the other day.

Tomorrow is going to be another nice day. I didn't fish at all today. Sounds like you found them finally. 30 ft deep. Man that's down in the cellar. It was pretty bright and sunny today. They may be feeding on something other than shad now. Not sure what they find down there at 35 ft deep and on the bottom. Crayfish, worms in the muck. Cadis fly larvae? Need one of them underwater TV cameras to look at that brush pile to see what's there besides the fish.

Is Patoka ever going to come back down to winter pool? Ohio River seems pretty high too. I would think that sooner or later the water will drain off and the rivers will go back down. Then maybe the corp will drop the Patoka Lake level.