Thread: What's up with East Fork Lake?

Originally Posted by fishinforfun

Been fishing EFL several times in last couple weeks. Have only been able to catch small, 4-7"crappie. They are everywhere. Keeper fish have been hard to find. I have been fishing this lake since impounded and have not seen this many small fish at this time of year. Anyone else having this problem? I have been fishing Caesar Creek and doing well for size and number of fish. Since EFL and CC are sister lakes, my experience has been both lakes produce good size fish after the turnover about equally. Any thoughts about the difference between the 2 lakes?

Not sure if you are aware but there was a fish kill at EF in, from what I can remember, fall of 2015. I think it killed lots of fish. Probably lots of bigger fish. EF was never that great on size but the size average has definitely come down since then. I was there a little over a month ago and caught lots of fish. Not many keepers but most fish were more like 8-8.5 vs the 4-7 you mentioned. I think the lake is just on the way back after the fish kill. Next year, they'll have better size I think.

mbk

For the most part, having lot's of short fish has been pretty standard at EF for quite a while but I do think it may have gotten a little worse.
I used to think that maybe it was just me but it sounds like it's pretty universal.

u r fishing too deep

1 to 2 foot

TBone, thanks for the info. Can you please clarify: Are you saying fish water that is 1-2 ft deep, or fish 1-2 ft deep over deeper water? The reason for the question is I was on CC Friday and we caught 28 nice fish in deep water, 20-25ft fishing abut 20 ft down vertical. We were on EFL Saturday and again could not find good size fish. The shallowest water we fished was 4 ft. Could only manage 1 keeper about 11.25".

depends on the weather.if its sunny they can be as shallow as u can get and cloudy days usually 2 foot deep over 3 to 6 fow.ef on a down cycle been tuff this year but winter is the time to get em..jig and cork the best or swimming 32 oz but jig and cork the best pay attention to water temp

Float and Fly are doing good under d'cork

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