Quote Originally Posted by bassmanic1 View Post
Its all about money . Southern IN is the one of the last places the state spends money on for fishing & hunting . A bigger lot , a smooth sand area to beach the boat and give bank fishermen a spot plus a dock/pier ? They barely pay the CO's and staff they have now . Plus the state could have bought a lot more property when they acquired Bluegrass which would have added a lot more fish able water . Im just glad to have the ramp back and if someone is fishing on it they will almost always move for you . Ive noticed a lot of the kayaks using Loon pit north ramp which has 2 extra places to launch small boats . Loon also has some old trees in the water on the SE side which Bluegrass lacks . Ran a square-bill crankbait through and picked a few up . My main bait right now is the strike king redeye shad . Find a good spot near shad schools , use the farthest casting reel you have and make long casts then reel it in slowly . Have to try different colors because there is always one color they like best in each lake . Caught a 6lber doing this Thursday .
Congratulations on catching that 6 lber.

I've caught some bass of those trees and a few crappie. But they are hard to maneuver the boat in and out of as they are so thick. That area reminds me of some of the areas on Patoka Lake which are nothing more than submerged forests.

Too bad that the gravel launch ramp at the South end of Loon Pit is too shallow to launch a big bass boat. And the bottom at that ramp is covered in coal muck. It will get sucked up into the engine water cooling system and plug it up real fast. The last time I launched my boat there was two years ago and the water level was down and my boat motor was nearly destroyed by that coal muck. I had to take the motor in for repairs and have it cleaned up and a new water pump put in. Water was not coming out of the pee hole anymore as it was so plugged up inside.

I wish that IDNR had more money to fix that ramp and dig a deeper channel though the area to the deeper water. It's only about 1.5 ft deep when I last used that ramp. It's about 2 ft deep now or maybe 3 ft deep. I'm just guessing. Not many guys launch out of that ramp.