Thread: lake whitehurst....

I fished there from 1965 till they closed the ramp, most fickle spring time place to fish there is. Just when you think the spring bite is on one of these Nor'easters blows in and shuts them down. After the sun shines for a day or two with a south wind find an area the wind has been pushing warm water in, look for emerging lily pads, fish the outside edges and any stickups around them. If you can get under the bridge to the canal, that's a good early area to try. As soon as the ramps open I'll be out there, I really miss it, and now I. only 5 miles away.
I tell a story I've told here before. In the early 70's my buddy and I use to fish there and on the other side (Little Creek), launching a canoe from my sister's. We used to buy minnows from Capt.'s Smith's Bait Barn on Shell Rd. Every time we went in the old guy dipping minnows would show us a couple citation size crappies he said he caught on the way to work paddling his canoe, ask him where, he'd just point at the lake. So my buddy started getting up before dawn and started stalking him from the woods. He says after a bunch of times doing that " that old man is BSing us, I never even seen him catch one fish." A few years pass and my buddy comes in with the news paper folded to an obituary for one Carlos Hathcock (google if you have too!). My buddy says that old guy knew I was stalking him, and I say yup and you're lucky to be alive to say that.

The last 10 days have moved the water temp to 58 and the fish are responding. Crappie to14" and a fine representation of large mouth as well. Fishing pressure is light as usual but will increase with the opening of the new ramp. Ramp is getting closer by the day. Se you guys soon!