Thread: Kayak Trip Report, Madison County Lake

Cooler

Nice pics! Thanks for the report .

Good job. With this rain today I wonder what it will do?

Good catch Ditch!

What does it cost to fish there?been promising my girlfriend and her nephew I'd take them.and don't wanna take them to the gravel pits. Lol

Originally Posted by Ditch Basser

I fished Madison County Lake today, what a beautiful day to be on the water!

The fish were very slow all day, I had a rough start looking for shallow fish, finally decided to stop trying to make the fish be shallow and started working into deeper water. Figure this one, I found the fish in 10 to 14 feet of water. Half were tuxedo Black, half weren't, but the females hadn't spawned yet. I'm thinking the rain Monday may have cooled the water enough to push them back deep? I kept 20, plus 3 large Shellcrackers. I'll post a photo later.

The water clear with visibility of three to four feet and 63 degrees when I started. The water had warmed to 70 by 5PM. The fish came on 1/16oz Marabou jigs in white or chartreuse. Half came on single pole fishing isolated brush, the remainder spider rigging.

Welp, the secret is out. An old friend of mine fishes up three all the time. He has been catching them pretty good for a few weeks now. There are some huge shellcrackers in there.

those crappie have some shoulders to them, nice. plus the crackers are good size! nice can't wait till i get my kayak out on lake.

It's $3 to fish, plus $3 more to launch a boat (including a kayak). The Crappie seem to come in two types, small 9" to 10" Black Crappie or White Crappie that at over 14 inches.

I was very pleasantly surprised about the Shellcracker, all were caught in the same area, maybe I've found a spawning area?