I didn't mean to go off on you sir. I am just down on Blue Grass these days due to over crowding.Originally Posted by quack
I heard two guys talking about catching some nice crappie in shallow waters about 5 ft deep along the shoreline. The lake is full of underwater vegetation that only takes root where it has enough sunlight. And the water clarity of the Blue Grass Pit is limited. Sunlight only reaches down to about ten feet deep with enough energy to support those rooted plants. So there is a definite wall of weeds that goes from the edge of the water surface to about ten feet down into the water. The wall edge will be different distances from the water's edge due to the varying slopes around the lake. Some parts of the Blue Grass Pit drop off steeply very close to the shoreline and others taper off more slowly and the edges of the weed will be further out from the shoreline. And from my experience the weeds start to thin out a bit a 7 to 8 feet deep.
I speak of weed a lot because they hold a lot of fish and can be fished easily if you can figure out where the weeds end and which way the weed line is going. Many inside bends in the weedline are good fishing spots. The crappie love the weeds as they hold oxygen and lots of food and also give the crappie a place to feed on small aquatic insects that live in and on the weeds. The shape of a crappie is flatten and this give them the ability to turn quickly in cover. Thus they are normally found around cover such as brush piles. And after seeing pictures of 40" long Muskies coming out of Blue Grass Pit I'd hide in the weed and brush piles if I were a small crappie too.
Grab a bucket of minnows and try tight lining for crappie along the weed lines and if you can find anything that the crappie can relate to on the bottom. That can be a quick change in depth or a stump or even a small stickup in 7 ft of water. And then some of the crappie like to cruse the depths of the main lake in big schools follow schools of shad. I troll with crank baits at 1.5 mph or less and at least 20 to 25 ft deep in order to catch those bigger slab crappie. I spend a lot of mony getting my boat rigged up to troll like this but with the lake being over crowded I find that hard to do. Which is why I talked about it in the other post.
Blue Grass is a public Lake and anyone is welcome to fish there as long as they follow the IDNR rules. So good fishing to you and hope you catch a few fish and have fun. And remember that week days are usually less crowded and make for a better fishing experience. IMHO.
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