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Originally Posted by Moveon
You will not be disappointed fishing in any of the creeks for crappie. I don't usually head up to Poison or Oil, but I know plenty of people that do some good crappie fishing up there. I normally stay in Big/Little and Millstone, or hit up one of the runs.
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Yeah you can stay down there at rocky point! haha. Leave the crappie fishing to us derby folk to do around poison and oil.
I've caught fish out of all of them so yeah if the fish are biting in one they probably are in the other. I've always fished live minnows. I have no confidence in jigs as we have always said that if they are biting on a jig you could catch twice as many on a live minnow.
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haha I'll stay down here since its closer and doesnt cost me as much gas. but def live minnows for me as well
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Don't have to worry about me catching too many of those crappie. I don't know much about fishing in Creeks or the Ohio River. So if I were to come up there it would be my first time and I'd be a total newbie for that kind of fishing. I'd be like a fish out of water.
I saw all the creeks in about a two hour drive and had a hard time telling you which creek is which right now. I have not had time to study them on the Google Maps. But the one at Rocky point had a lot of water near the Ohio River Creek Mouth. That creeks spreads out a lot and there are even some islands in the area near the mouth of the creek.
The creek up by Derby IN was pretty small from what I could see. Heck there is the Little Pigeon Creek down here by ALCOA. But that launch ramp looked worst than the one at Lynville Park as far as being slick with lots of green algae growing on the Concrete Launch Ramp.
I've read about those creek in the fishing magazines and they sound good in the magazines.
I've not been fishing with minnows much this year as this summer was so darn hot that I didn't feel like messing with changing minnow water every day. All my minnows that I bought early this summer died when I forgot to change the water in their bucket. Even now I have to keep the water cold just to keep the minnows alive. That's easier than changing the water though. All I have to do is drop a frozen water bottle into the minnow bucket every 12 hours.
I still have some work to do before I can upload the pictures from my camera to my computer and then resize them for this web site. Managing all my photos is getting harder as I get more of them on my computer. And I have a boat load of them from this last trip. I used a 16 GB SDHC card in my Canon EOS camera this time and it holds a lot of my high resolution pictures. Each picture is saved twice. Once a a RAW image and again as a huge JPEG file. So I've got 2x pictures to save for each shot I take.
I have to search though them to find the best ones to post online.
Good fishing to you guys. Hopefully it will cool down a bit.
PS: I know that the water is a little colder as yesterday evening the UE Outdoor Club was out at Otter Pit again blocking launch ramp with their canoe trailer. This time they setup again at the handicapped parking space and they also setup folding chairs right on the launch ramp for about two hours. Luckly no other fisherman or boats wanted to use the launch ramp last night.So the kids had a good time. Two of the girls fell into the water and got wet and complained about the cold water. The supervisor pushed their canoe a little too hard off the concrete launch ramp and they both leaned the same way and tipped the canoe over about 5 ft from the shoreline. LOL
They ended up in 3 ft of water and one got her cell phone water logged. I tried to tell her to take the batteries out and not use it for 49 hours while putting it in a bowl of rice to soak up the water but she didn't listen. She said it was still working. Perhaps it's a waterproof model? Or perhaps the circuits will fry later with more use. I know that if water gets inside the cell phone's circuit board it won't be Pretty. But they told me that the water was getting colder at least after 7 pm.
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Sorry it took so long. I was having some problems resizing the file so that I could upload them to this web site's forum. Well I'm mad now. I save the resized photos on my hard drive in a folder and now when I try to use this sites browse feature the resized and renamed photo won't show up. That's never happened before. I give up for now. Time to go fishing I guess. Either Photo Shop Element's Organizer is screwing up or Windows is messing up. Or both could be fouled up. To heck with it right now. I'll try later when I calm down.
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This should be a photo of Patoka Lake Sunset showing the Mouth of Dumpling Creek from the Walls Boat ramp.
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Nice pictures.......
I don't use Walls any longer, after having my truck broken into twice there in one year.
I'm really REALLY dying to get out. Hopefully really soon.
Later,
Geo
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I read about that happening at Walls and heard that they caught the guys that were doing it. But that was a few years ago. We were the only truck there when we got there early that morning but there were a few more boats in the area.
Some guys like to live dangerously by driving their boat though stump fields at 60 mph.
Check out this picture of these three huge stumps that are showing now that the Water at Patoka Lake is so low.
This picture was taken from near the pensulia at the mouth of Dumplin Creek looking Up River. These stumps are on the right side of the River Channel. The actually old river channel is near the left side of this picture and it runs though the forest of submerged trees which are exposed in this picture. Water level at Patoka Lake is about 532 at the time this picture was taken.
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the river is ok, but they can take that 10 mph and shove it up their *%&. you can run most of the way up there if you know where to drive. im tired of either burning twice the fuel going slow or getting tickets. not worth it
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I know what you mean about getting tickets. The very first time I went up river from Osborn ramp to Walls I got a speeding ticket for going 12 mph in a 10 mph zone by some smart ass DNR CO. I'll never forget that Orange County CO guy with the red hair. I didn't have a GPS unit to tell me my speed back in those days and my boat didn't have a speed odomer on it. So I could not tell how fast I was going. I was just going fast enough to get the front of my boat up. And the ironic thing is that I had been going very slow the entire way and had no clue that Walls ramp was just around the corner when I got tired of not getting there and sped up a bit. If I had waited anohter 2 minutes I would have seen the ramp and known where I was. As it turned out I got a ticket for 70 bucks and I swore that I would never fish that area again. That was way back in the late 1970's when I got the ticket.
I didn't fish the upper Patoka River Reaches of Patoka Lake until 2003 when I finally figured out where Wall's Boat Ramp was and how to get there. It's easier to fish Dumplin Creek if you drive up to Walls ramp and launch the boat there than it is to launch at the North Ramp and go up river by boat. Still I've only been fishing in the Upper Patoka River Section three times since the day I got my ticket. Two of those times were with a friend in his boat.
Well actually it's four times. I went up there to Dumplin Creek twice in my boat. April of 2003 and May of 2003.
There are some really big crappie caught up there in the spring as that water is warmer than the rest of the lake in early spring. And that water is more fertile too. Trouble with fishing for crappie up there is that you have to wade through hundreds of little ones to catch a few big ones. There are thousands of 4" crappie up there that you have to shake off your baits every few seconds. They are starving I guess and hungry as hell. I mean they will take your minnow off the hook the second your bait hits the water in some spots.
I took a friend up there once and we caught over 100 of those little crappie one day in May 2003.
But I also saw a guy who had many good sized crappie in his boat. All of them were over 1 lb and many were 1.5 or 2 lbs. I watched him put them back into the lake one by one and it was painful to see so many big crappie and know that I had not caught them myself.
Other's have caught big crappie up in this section of Patoka lake too. Many Crappie USA tournaments have been won by people fishing up there.
I learned about this area from reading the fishing information on my paper Fishing Hot Spot's Map. Look it up and see what that map says about this area. If you don't have a fishing hot spots paper map or a good digital map of Patoka Lake then you are out of luck. You used to be able to buy them at the Marina.
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Sorry to hear you got busted for 2 MPH over. That is rediculous. Do not have any feelings for those who totally disregard the speed limit though.
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it should really be 20mph. not 10. less wake at 20 on plane, and less fuel. plus your boat isnt pointed at the moon and you can actually see where youre going.i could even live with 15. but 10 is the absolute worst speed in my boat. the dnr that got me was a total %$*hat.
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