reelfoot fishing

[truckman41271]

i have fished burnt woods but where is starved pond ? i also think i remember you guys at cypress point 3 years ago , we hit it big time that year and a resort worker pointed out a group of guy and said your group and ours were the only ones that found them like that , anyway where is starved pond ???

[camclo01]

starve pond is in the northwest corner of the second lake by horse ditch it is full of lilly pads. we have done really well in there and in the cypress trees around there. were do you have the best luck at

[truckman41271]

burnt woods , lilly pads wich sounds like its where starved pond is , and we like to troll along the shore and hit the trees. and we are coming from Peoria Illinois about 6 1/2 hour drive.

[truckman41271]

we are staying at reelfoot lake inn this year cause we all have our own boats, so we will be putting in at the state park where the giant crappie is, pretty sure we just need to strait out from there i think burnt woods is just across from there and up a little.

[camclo01]

our's is a 5 hour drive. we leave at 1;30am sat night sunday morning and drive through the night to cypress point and get straight on the boats at sun up. I can't wait to leave and get down there. the day's leading up to the trip are always the worst. Sitting at work just wishing you were already on the lake. have you heard any more news on how the fishing is doing

[truckman41271]

just seen a report that said crappie in 4 feet and blue gills heading in to beds go to reefootlake.com and click on fishing report was updated may 3rd . best i found so far , and yes the days are already dragging i start my vac. sat 9th

[camclo01]

i start mine the same day. yea i saw that report as well but i wish other places could update their reports. i had friends go down last week and said they killed the crappie so i hope the gills come along. do you ever do any catfish fishing while you are there. i do some yo yo's sometimes when the gills are not biting it can be fun to see what you catch.

[truckman41271]

We might try some catfishing if its slow , and we like to do so around the point at Willow Bar , and we use stinkbait. We also catch some on crickets aroung the trees.

[camclo01]

well i hope you have some good luck down there. I can't beleive no one has updated their fishing reports this week. It must be crazy down there. i got 3 more days and i am on my way i can't wait. good luck

[camclo01]

blue bank resort updated their fishing report to may 1st and they said the gills are starting to spawn so hopefully they will still be on next week

[truckman41271]

sorry went fishing here today...3 little ones in 6 hours it was a long day
but better then working. the weather is looking like its gonna be nice down there, bet we both do good or at least i hope.

[camclo01]

i hope so i need a good year on the lake. we did decent last year and brought in 60 to 70 per day but nothing like the 200 per day we have in the past. i just wish i could get off work to go fishing during the week, i am always stuck in the office. We are actually thinking about next year moving up a week to going down after derby on the first saturday in may. we did that in the past and always slayed them. whether it was gills or crappie