Thread: Smithville Lake Saturday and Sunday

I went crappie fishing Saturday north of W bridge and caught my 15 largest crappie ever. Almost all of them were 12" to 13 1/2". 5 large males and 10 large females. I was using a yellow and white tube jig and the fish were about 2-5 feet off the bank. I took my brother this morning but we only cleaned 18 but all of them were bigger than 11 inches. Same pattern but the wind blew us off the lake after a couple of hours. The lake came up at least 8 inches over night and the corp. was pulling the docks up so they must be expecting the lake to keep rising.

Nice mess of crappie, I sure hope we don't get enough rain to mess things up down here on Truman, having to much fun....... Like a kid in a Candy store......

Way to get out and catch some. You are right Monty it has been a lot of fun. But it will sure wear a guy out. 4 days in a row is a lot with the wind we had the last few days.

Nice job Dave P. Sounds like you had a good time and will have some even better eating.

Originally Posted by Dave P.

I went crappie fishing Saturday north of W bridge and caught my 15 largest crappie ever. Almost all of them were 12" to 13 1/2". 5 large males and 10 large females. I was using a yellow and white tube jig and the fish were about 2-5 feet off the bank. I took my brother this morning but we only cleaned 18 but all of them were bigger than 11 inches. Same pattern but the wind blew us off the lake after a couple of hours. The lake came up at least 8 inches over night and the corp. was pulling the docks up so they must be expecting the lake to keep rising.

i suck at smithville

just got back, and got blanked on the crappie

caught a nice LMB....



i always catch 1 to 4 LMB when targeting crappie.....its starting to piss me off

I fish from shore on smithville......can someone get me on some crappie up there????????

thanks

Hey pineappleslap from where you took that picture , You would standing in water today lakes up big time.

I hope this attachment works. I finally got the picture off my phone. These are the fish I caught this past saturday. It will be a while before the fishing picks back up since we received about 3-4 inches of rain last night.

Those are some good looking fish. Glad to see the quality of fish getting better in Dinkville. Congrats.

Nice fish, Dave. It's encouraging!!

Now that's an impressive limit anywhere especially for Smithville, I just bought a boat last April and had it water ready in May and I never caught more that three 12 inchers at a time all year.