Thread: Lewis Smith Lake

what part of the lake are you fishing, always have my best luck in the back of the creeks when the water is about 45 to 50 degree range fishing blow down trees and around boat docks 15 to 20 foot , use a 1/4 ounce white crappie jig slow cast around the trees,most people drop a lot trees around there docks ,look for the docks with security lights mounted close to the water that will tell if they fish they use the lights to attract fish in the summer months , lights draw in the bugs for the fish, be careful some folks get mad when you fish there tree tops next to there docks, if you find a flat next to deep water with bottom structure 20 to 30 foot you can catch them jigging 1/4 ounce jig white always my best luck caught couple crappie last saturday jigging a hopkins 1/2 ounce spoon

Thank you for your reply.I don't really know where I'm going to fish. I had someone tell me the upper sipsey area was a pretty good place to start out trying to crappie fish, if I wasn't familier with the lake. They also said you could have pretty good luck around the boat docks like you have indicated in your reply. Where's the best place to get a map of the lake?

if the trees tops are in the water they belong to the lake fish them

What fond memories! My wife an I spent our honeymoon in my Uncle's 'cabin' (it was a full sized house they called a 'cabin') on Smith in 1968.

I fished it all during the mid 60's... but never for Crappie. We were always fishing for spotted bass. The record came out of Smith in those years, what a great fishery.

Tom

where exactly is smith lake

Smith Lake Is Between Cullman , Alabama And Jasper , Alabama. About 45 Or 50 Miles North Of Birmingham ,al.

thanks bigfish

I was in the sipsey creek area the other day noticed betwwen the Houston campground and the 278 bridge somone had cut some trees down into the water from the bank you cant miss them if you look there on the main channel before you get to the campground slough on the right four or five good size trees