bank crappie fishing in southern IN

[Moose1am]

Good report. And Congratulations on catching some. When crappie are in a small lake like that they overpopulate the lake quickly. One crappie can lay 30,000 to 100,000 eggs in one season. A good indication of overpopulation is small fish. Unless more predation occurs the lake will continue to house stunted fish. The best management technique is to keep as many of the small fish as possible. This will thin the numbers down and help those fish left have more food. There is not a lot of food in such a small lake. That lake should be productive even though it's small. That's because I will almost bet that the golf course is fertilized well. Any excess fertilizer will runoff into the lake and be used by the aquatic life in the lake. I use to play Ice Hockey on that lake when it froze solid years ago. And I lost a few golf balls in that lake as well. Good to hear that it's holding some crappie. It has great access for the shoreline fisherman and is not as crowded as Bluegrass will be in the early spring. I'll bet that Bluegrass pit is packed with boats today. It will be a circus out there today.

Well Thursday I decided to go to Helfrich golf course and fish the lakes in the back. I fished most of the day with not much luck. I just circled the larger lake in the back with all the trees around it. As I was about to quit and head out I found a deep spot with a bunch of stick ups and I started catching crappie. I caught about 10 in the last 1 1/2 hrs of daylight I had left. None of them were big, 6 of them were about 8 inches. Friday I tried bluegrass in the morning and it was packed there. I caught a few bass fishing with minnows but that was it. It was too windy there so I went back to Helfrich and fished the same spot. I ended up catching about 25 crappie total, and 14 were keepers ranging from 8-10 inches. I ran out of minnows and all I had left were meal worms and I was catching them on those too. So I was pretty happy with my first crappie fishing experience. And they tasted great last night.

[bassmanic1]

Dan ,
Opps , it may not be a good idea to post here were you caught fish - Im not saying people will fish it out but you never know . Glad to hear someone got out and wet a line , I was going to today { Sunday } but got some ribs on the smoker . Plan on going Monday as Im working nights this week . The best bet with a good crappie lake is to keep it to yourself or maybe let some of us on here know about it { me , moose , larry , he he ! } and we can tip you off to some good spots . Ill send you a email with some info .
Tight lines

[daniel240]

LOL if they would have been big crappie I wouldn't have posted it on here. Anyway that was nothing compared to what I caught the last 2 days. My freind who I always go fishing with who has a boat got home saturday and said he had a place to go crappie fishing. So we went out to this pit north of Chandler and we each caught our limit in about 1 1/2 hours. They were all around 10''. We had so much fun we went out again today and caught our limit in about the same amount of time. The thing that surprised me most was that these crappie weren't biting on minows at all. I tried fishing with minows for about 10 minutes and never got a single bite. We caught every fish on red and green jigs. Anyway this was the most fun fishing I have had in a long time. This spot I'm not telling anyone where its at.