CrappieWisdom Where art thou?

[Bob # 1]

I don't know what kind of lake you are looking for, but there is a small lake north of ft wayne that is a great crappie lake. It is only accessible down a farmer's lane thru his fields and can only be fished without gas engines. If you have more than a small boat you won't be able to launch. I can get my 17 foot basstracker panfish model in with some maneuvering down the ramp and 4 wheel drive on my truck. The guy charges $5 to fish. My brother and I got a mess of 12 inchers this past Sunday in about 2 hrs time.

He made this post, PM him no response.

Does anybody know where he is talking about. Am from FortWayne, trying to locate this honey hole.

[crappiewisdom]

I responded, at least I thought I did, on the thread "northeast crappie fishing".

If it's not there or you can't find it let me know.

[crappiewisdom]

The Lake is called Nauvoo Lake. Go to Kendallville. Go to the intersection of St Rd 3 and St Rd 6 and go north. There will be a shopping center on your left. Immediately past the shopping center is a road (CR 550 E I think). Go left on that rd. Stay on this road. Past CR 1150 N but before CR 700 S there is a farm house on the left with a dirt lane just to the north of the property. There is a faded wooden sign that says Nauvoo Lake. You can barely make out the words.
Take this lane to the lake. Near the top of the launch is a can to put $5 in on the honor system. Fish the other side of the lake straight across from the launch. As you cross the lake, there will be a small island, keep south of that. Keep going until about 25 yards from shore. There is a sunken island, probably some lily pads there by now. That's where I usually find them. The lake is small and launching anything other than a jon boat or other small boat is tough to impossible.

We get a lot of crappies there in the spring. Last weekend we killed on the big ones. I've heard there are nice gills there too.

Get a copy of Uncle Larry's Map of NE Indiana Lakes. It's on there.

Good luck.

[Crappie Kid]

I think i just heard every truck in Ne Indiana just start up...:D

[Bob # 1]

HEY everybody you are heading in the wrong direction. He PM'ed
me with the right directions ..................Sorry

[Bob # 1]

[QUOTE=crappiewisdom;507225] Near the top of the launch is a can to put $5 in on the honor system. QUOTE]

This sounds like down south where you can get white lightening, wonder if the going rate is the same?

[crappiewisdom]

You are welcome.

[Bob # 1]

You are welcome.

Grandson an I going today to clean out the lake.
So all you varmints stay home or go to work.:p

Retirment does has it drawbacks.:D

[crappiewisdom]

Hope you did well. I was going to go there this past weekend but ended up being :Dsick. Once again...hope you had fun and did well!!!

[river scum]

hey i forgot about that lake, used to fish it as a kid, thanks. seam to remember going through a channel to another lake were we fished. im sure it will come back when i get there.