Patoka Lake Indiana

[raporter]

Good lake. I live in E-town and when I was 10-12 years old my dad and I would go there every weekend and camp out and fish for bluegill. This lake use to have some monster bluegill in it. It would be nothing to go out and catch 60 or more 9, 10 and 11 inch shellcrackers. If I remember correctly my dad and I caught over 10 shellcrackers 12" long in 2 years. I'm thirty now and those were the good old days.

The shad destroyed the gill and redear fishery. Sad.

[Bassky]

Fish the grass areas in the spring. There are some hogs in there. Topwater, frog or spook, or run and rip a rattletrap in spring craw or red color.
Bassky

[GeoFisher]

The shad destroyed the gill and redear fishery. Sad.

You're SOOOO right...........it USED to be a GREAT redear, bluegill and crappie lake. You can still catch some decent crappies, and some SERIOUS bass, but the bluegill and redear are all but gone.

AND every once in a while, you NAIL a monster striper, but I heard a ton of those died a couple years ago.........again too bad.

Finally...........maybe in the future, it will become a decent walleye lake

Later,

Geo