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Heading to the lake. Lake is way down and I plan to take some pictures of the lakes shoreline for my records. I'll do some fishing too. Hope to have a report on the fishing when I return.
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where u going
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Well I drove up to Patoka to fish with my friend and ended up driving over the Rocky Point and Derby to check out the creeks that empty into the Ohio River. Planning on going there to fish for crappie someday in the future. The creeks were smaller than I thought they would be except for the ones at Rocky Point where they were pretty big at the mouth where they enter the Ohio River.
I drove up to Patoka Lake and got there late Tueday morning. It was too late to go out as it was getting hot and sunny by the time I got up there. I forgot that they are one hour ahead of us down in Evansville. So we just went for a road trip to check out some future fishing spots.
We got up early Today (Wed) and got on the water before the fog had lifted. We fished plastic works, shallow cranks, and spinner baits up in Dumplin creek but only got one bass all day long. The skies were clear and bright and it got windy. One of those bluebird days where nothing seemed to be biting. Didn't even see any shad swimming in this bay. I was thinking were were going up into the Kings Bridge Area to check that out but we ended up staying in Dumpling Creek all day. Not much to see up the river anyway. I only saw a few boats going up past dumpling. I took lots of pictures of the trees sticking out of the water. Lake is way down right now. I heard it was at 532 ft asl right now. But it's lower than I saw it back in 2003. It was pretty low back then.
I've had better days up at Patoka. We only fished for bass all day. Didn't even take any crappie poles this time. Still it was nice to get out on the water again. It's been a long time since I went up to Patoka Lake.
I'll try to remember to post some pictures later on. I'm tired now and need some sleep. And have some plans for the next few days.
Originally Posted by psvec
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Been a lousy year for Patoka since early spring. It is down 4.2 feet from summer pool. Look forward to your photos.
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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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