Lake Shelbyville 2005

[PIGINTHEPIGPEN]

Put in at Bo Woods today about 9:00am and fished till 2:00pm. Caught 9 crappie with 3 keepers. The keeper fish came from the Findley Marina area. Anywhere from 4-8' in depth. Fished jigs tipped with a minnow. I was so use to the lake being high. I felt like a stranger today. 4 out of the 5 spots I wanted to fish, were completly out of the water. My go to spot last time I fished was in 14' of water. Today that same spot was 12' up on a dry bank Water temp 41-43 degrees.

[fish21759]

Hey Pig
I hoping to get over there Saturday afternoon . I have to move some furniture first . Was the fish you caught in the Findley Marina around the docks ? A couple of years ago I caught a lot of nice keepers in there just about this time of year. Glad to see you got out and caught fish .

See ya Kevin ><)))*>

[PIGINTHEPIGPEN]

Fish you know your stuff. Yes it was around the docks. I could not buy a bite at the Fox harbor docks but, the Findley docks were in a little deeper water

[steve57]

Fished Wilborn area again today, water temp 43, about 5d cooler than last weekend, and way too muddy north of the ramp. Not bad towards the RR bridge. Only got 4 keepers, ratio about 1 to 8-9. A lot of 9-9.5" fish today. Next weekend should be better, if the rain stays away.

[crappieken]

Two of us walked the bank today on Shelbyville in two different spots. Wind was real bad. Didn't get one bite between us. Stopped at a corps pond and caught one bass that went 15 inches. We then hit the Kaskaskia River - no luck there either. Wind was still bad and current was strong. Anybody do any good from a boat today. I only saw one boat the whole time we were out.

[PIGINTHEPIGPEN]

Took a vacation day today so I could fish all day and I was on the water for quite sometime. Put in at Wilborn and fished from 9:30am till 7:30pm. Fished with a buddy and we caught about 40 crappie and took 9 home. Water temp was 59 degrees. Most fish were in 4-8' of water. Blue and white tubes seem to work best. I lost the biggest crappie I would have ever caught on Shelbyville today. My partner reached down to grab the fish because I left the net at home. The crappie jumped like a bass next to the boat and got off. We both got a real good look at the fish and guessed it to be close to 15'' There were some guys fishing a Bass tournament 30' away from us. They said that they could have used that fish for the tournament. I told them that it was not a Bass and they said it looked like a Bass to them and that Crappie don't get that big. I told them I used to fish Bass tournament's all the time and I know the difference between a Bass and a Crappie.

[PIGINTHEPIGPEN]

Put in at Bo Woods yesterday. Fished from 9:00am till 2:00pm. Caught 14 with 2 keepers. Fished with rosey reds today and caught fish in a bout 8' of water. The 2 keepers were caught on a blue and white tube. Water temp was 60 degrees. The lake is still the lowest I have seen it, in quite sometime.

[PIGINTHEPIGPEN]

Just got my depth finder back from repair.Thought I would see if they fixed it or not. I guess they did, it seemed to work ok this morning. Put in at Bo Woods about 8:30am and fished till 12:30pm. Only caught 6 with one keeper. The lake was a sheet of glass this morning and the weather was a bute. Water temp dropped a couple of degrees since last time I was on the lake. 52 this morning and 54 at noon. Caught my fish on a gitzit tipped with a chartuse crappie nibble in about 8-10' of water. Seen quite a few crappie fisherman out today. The few that I talked to said they were catching small fish.

[PIGINTHEPIGPEN]

Put in at Whitley creek this morning at 7:30am and fished till 10:30am. It's been 5 months since I had my boat on the lake I caught 7 fish with only 2 keepers. Water temp was 52. Caught fish on white and blue tube. Wished I could have stayed longer but, this trip was just to make sure evrything on my boat still worked. Nice day not much wind. Not sure when I will get out again with Duck season opening this weekend.

[crappieken]

I walked the banks again today and caught over 30 crappie, most of them the size of your hand. I did have four keepers- one 10.5, two 11.5, and one 12. All on orange/chartreuse jigs. I talked to two guys at the Whitley Creek cleaning station and they were cleaning two limits. Said they caught them fishing a foot of water or less. They were boat fishing out of a Ranger - didn't say what area of they lake they were fishing.