Welcome Nebraska Crappie Fishermen

[ShortStorie]

Borrowing a line from the Moody Blues "I know you're out there somewhere." A number of fishermen from surrounding states swear that there are crappie in Nebraska but no Nebraskans have confirmed this. Sooo?

[Eager Beaver]

We have a few Crappie in the State but try not to let that information out. The better Crappie are found in Private lakes and farm ponds around the Omaha and Lincoln area. Their are nice sized Crappie in the bigger impoundment which are in the middle and western parts of the State.

[TeamAdcraft]

Ponca state Park in Nebraska has a couple of surrounding Lakes including Buckskin Lake. I have seen 15" pulled out of there...

[bigredcrappie]

Buckskin does hold some nice size crappie. Willow creek is another lake that has been know for nice slabs. There are a lot of small farm ponds that hold crappie, but it is tough trying to get permission.

[TeamAdcraft]

Welcome BigRedcrappie looks to be your first post...
The New Nebraska Forum will start bringing them out.
:D

[KCBALLER]

Welcome Aboard Looking Forward To Your Post

This Site Will Put Nebraska On The Map !!!!

[Eager Beaver]

Buckskin does hold some nice size crappie. Willow creek is another lake that has been know for nice slabs. There are a lot of small farm ponds that hold crappie, but it is tough trying to get permission.

Welcome to the site bigredcrappie; let everyone know where you are from and what bodies of water you fish and can recieve input from others that may fish those waters or need your assistance with some information regarding them.

[bigredcrappie]

Grew up in northeast nebraska. Fish St. Francis Case, Lewis & Clark Lake, Buckskin Hills, and farm ponds around the area.

[Eager Beaver]

We are lacking decent sized lakes around the Omaha and Lincoln area. The only decent sized lake we have around here was Branched Oaks around Lincoln. It use to be a prime Walleye lake for this area. The State decided to improve it so they added white perch to it for the walleye and Bass to feed on. This was to improve the size of the Walleye and Bass populations. What this ended up doing was to destroying the fishery. They are more prolific than Bluegill and multiply very rapidly because they are so spiney that not many fish will eat them so they really multiply. They have the same diet as the Crappie, Bluegill and Walleye have. So the State added Pike to the lake to eat the white perch, but after they did a creel survey and opened a few of the pike all they had in them was Walleye and Crappie. So now all you can pretty much keep is 1 Walleye that is between 22 and 25 inches. Wiper and Flathead catfish are total catch and release. BUT you can keep all the carp that you want. That makes this once a very nice fishing lake a total catch and release lake.
The small lakes around the Omaha area are about 350 acer lakes. But the city started allowing developers to build houses around these small lakes, and now most of them are polluted and you aren't to eat any fish from them. All the chemicals that the people put on their lawns are now in the lakes. They have high levels of Mercury and PCP in them now.

[Iamfishing]

Hello and welcome NE,
you guys may not have a lot of crappie about but you have what SC does not have. Pheasants and Ducks. I have been coming to NE for 9 years hunting these birds and enjoy it. We stay in Verdigre each fall. We see a lot of boats fishing in the Missouri near Santee. Don't know if they are catching crappie or not.

The white perch are a problem in SC too. They are destroying the crappie population on two past excellent crappie lakes. Lake Wylie and Lake Wateree. You can still catch a decent mess night stalking or night fishing but its not like it use to be.