Loon Pit

[Moveon]

Thank you!

I'd fish the Southern end of Loon pit where the trees are flooded. You can see the trees above the water from Kansas Road. That forest of flooded timber has some nice fish in there among the trees. I see people fishing the deeper sections of those trees all the time. As in the last ten years or longer. There is always a boat out there fishing the deep end of those submerged trees. I've caught some nice big crappie in my secret spot among those trees. There is one spot where the water is only a few feet deep and within 15 ft. away the water is over 20 ft. deep. So the crappie spawn on the top of that shallow area. I'm not sure how large the shallow area is but it was a hot spot. I found it by accident while slow trolling though the area with a live minnow from the front of my boat. I caught a fish and threw a marker buoy out and then inspected the area around the buoy with my sonar. It's hard fishing among all those trees. So you have to be careful if you fish tight line with a minnow on a hook. As it's very snaggy. I figure that casting a weed less bait like a Crappie Slider might be better to fish among all those submerged limbs and trees.

As time goes on the limbs on the submerged trees will rot and fall off to the bottom of the lake and only the trunks will remain. But that may take some time to happen. Crappie and bass will suspend in and among the submerged trees but are hard to fish out of that mess.

[jkelley1487]

I'd fish the Southern end of Loon pit where the trees are flooded. You can see the trees above the water from Kansas Road. That forest of flooded timber has some nice fish in there among the trees. I see people fishing the deeper sections of those trees all the time. As in the last ten years or longer. There is always a boat out there fishing the deep end of those submerged trees. I've caught some nice big crappie in my secret spot among those trees. There is one spot where the water is only a few feet deep and within 15 ft. away the water is over 20 ft. deep. So the crappie spawn on the top of that shallow area. I'm not sure how large the shallow area is but it was a hot spot. I found it by accident while slow trolling though the area with a live minnow from the front of my boat. I caught a fish and threw a marker buoy out and then inspected the area around the buoy with my sonar. It's hard fishing among all those trees. So you have to be careful if you fish tight line with a minnow on a hook. As it's very snaggy. I figure that casting a weed less bait like a Crappie Slider might be better to fish among all those submerged limbs and trees.

As time goes on the limbs on the submerged trees will rot and fall off to the bottom of the lake and only the trunks will remain. But that may take some time to happen. Crappie and bass will suspend in and among the submerged trees but are hard to fish out of that mess.

Thanks for the advice Moveon.