I finally made it down to Boltz yesterday. Not the best day for fishing. Cool and very windy, blowing away from the dam. Didn't have much time to fish. It was sunny and started fishing the shallows even though the fish finder told me not to... Didn't see anyone catch anything from the bank either. Finally as I made my way down toward the left, I saw fish holding between 9-13 feet in 17-22 foot of water. Out of that range and you couldn't see a single fish on the finder. So, with not too much time left to fish, I drifted down in that range and pulled crappie, and a few blue gill, out right and left. Picked up a dozen in about 30 minutes that way. If only I'd known were they were sooner, I would have had a really good day crappie fishing there.
Anyway - I wanted to check on the size of the crappie there too since they extracted 1,600 last March and moved them to Taylorsville. I had a small sample size but I see they are still on the smaller side. About 3 were between 8.5 and 9 inches. The rest were all about 7.5 inches. So, there are probably some nice ones in there but the majority still seem to be smaller.
I will be trying the lake again. The one big complaint I have is that the state marked the boat ramp/lake twice on 22/467 but once you got on Dry Ridge Mt. Zion there was no sign, nothing. We passed it up 3x before realizing it was the little dirt road almost directly across from Mohawk Dr. They need to mark it better.
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