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    Right now, I still consider here in Indiana we are still in a late season,winter time pattern. If we get some warm weather, it will change for sure. 2 weeks ago water was approaching 50 degrees on our big water lakes. This week, it was down to 42 2 days ago. Fish are kinda funky with the up and down of those temps. If your going to fish for crappies, small hair jigs, or small Road runners with your plastic baits that you can dress up with nibbles, or minnows, fished slow to a craw will work in this cold water. Most reports are showing crappies caught in 12-25’ of water were being caught 8-14 ft down on flats, long points, right next to deep water or Creek channels. You might try long lining at a speed of anywhere from 0.3 to no more than 1.0 using different weights of jigs/road runners from 1/32 oz to 1/8 oz experimenting with as much as a good cast out from the boat (65’) or so. Try spider rigging jigs off the front if you have rod holders with a 3/4 oz weight about 3’ above your jig or jig/minnow combo. A lot of the guys that walleye fish your lake are waiting on the water to,stabilize as they been letting out to get it back to normal pool and it’s about there. I also have snagged walleye on Monroe and Patoka long lining the small same crappie road runners on 2 inch curley tail plastics and chartreuse and yellow/orange are 2 favorite colors that they will hit as well as pink occasionally. Couple of weeks this weather should break, your lake water will be more stabilized with them not pulling it out, and the water temps will climb to better warm temps. Keep your eye on the guys in the Indiana walleye forum as they are all waiting to pounce on the eyes, and watch for a few good postings on Indiana crappie.com for better fishing reports. Most everybody I know is waiting for it to break to get out and fish and are still sitting on their couches and just don’t care to fish muddy water. It can only get better with the change in the weather.

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    I have tried a dozen times over the course of a year to get registered on Indiana walleye forum, but no responses! (and I check spam!)


    Hopefully its just the water conditions and not total failure on my part. I am going to try more jigs for crappie this spring. The crankbaits are a no brainer, but my wife doesn't enjoy it too much.

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    Got it thanks!

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    Suppose I try to get out and fish this weekend.

    water temp has been 43-44. We've will have had several days worth of 50's weather, and a good amount of rain. I figure this will make creek inlets decently warm, but muddy.

    If you were going to try to fish a rain swollen reservoir, would you check out shallower creek inlets for warmer water? Or stick to winter style fishing in deeper water closer to the main lake channel.

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    I would used your electronics as that is what I am going to do as I first hit the main Creek channel and then work the secondary channels looking for bait balls or schools of bait and try and find fish around them by long lining 1/16 oz jigs and road runners both hair and plastics some loaded with crappie nibbles kinda search and seek. I will try shallows but I haven’t been on the water for 2 Weeks and don’t know like you. I think you will find them in deep water tho, 8 to 14 ft or maybe even deeper suspended, but then again, I will check out brush piles as well as shallow. Hopefully all these fronts and rain won’t have them lock jawed. If you find them long lining jigs, mark the spot and go to vertical jigging as I don’t think the bite will be aggressive. I also think I will be fishing pure muddy water as I have had 3” of rain so far last few days and predicted heavy rain tomorrow again. Just don’t know till I find some. Good luck.

    if you get into muddy water in the back arms and that water could have come off farm fields, the local farmers down around me were dumping their hog manure on fields as their holding lagoons were full of soup from the rain. I have found sometimes no fish or anything on my electronics or caught any fish like that sometimes as I think it washes into the creeks when it rains, changes the ph and lack of oxygen in the water and the fish move. Also these farmers were dumping and spreading turkey manure and it’s washing off. It will have an effect on inflowing creeks and water especially if it comes off the fields.
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    Quote Originally Posted by binfordw View Post
    Suppose I try to get out and fish this weekend.

    water temp has been 43-44. We've will have had several days worth of 50's weather, and a good amount of rain. I figure this will make creek inlets decently warm, but muddy.

    If you were going to try to fish a rain swollen reservoir, would you check out shallower creek inlets for warmer water? Or stick to winter style fishing in deeper water closer to the main lake channel.
    I always start shallow and work to deep water. I would concentrate on the West & Northwest banks that are exposed to the most Sun during the day ... even better if they're dark bottom banks, rocky banks, or have a lot of wood on them. Live trees that have a few feet of water up the trunks are also good spots to try, especially in dirty to moderately stained water. I'd try and avoid "muddy" water areas, because muddy, cold water is usually not very productive. But, if you have no other choice but to fish such water ... scent your artificial baits & fish them extremely slow ... or tip jigs & jig/plastics with a live minnow, if possible.

    Remember, too : fish can see much better/farther in cold water, than in very warm water -- fish can see farther in murky water than we can see in lightly stained water, plus they can sense movement/water pressure changes thru their lateral line, which tells them the direction of the object (in relation to them). They can also detect whether the moving object is coming towards them, going away from them, or staying at a relative distance. (*one reason I like using Road Runners, even in heavily stained water. While the blade doesn't afford much "flash", the turning of the blade does create water pressure waves that can be detected by the fish's lateral line long before they can "see" it)
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    Break this down for slow people like me!

    Main creek channel- I'd call the main river channel of Brookville? Like mouths of coves right off the main lake body. Secondary, I guess coves that split into multiple fingers?

    Is muddy water going to deter you from fishing an area? It will ALL probably be muddy I'd guess.

    To verify long lining jigs, I assume cast out, close bail and cruise .5-.9?

    Thanks!! I'll take any help I can get to catch more fish!

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    Great info!!



    I'm a tad confused as to how to long line jigs in shallow, timber filled coves. To this point all of my trolling, drifting jigs, etc has been pretty open water. Do you just cast out jigs and cruise, and accept the snags/ breakoffs?


    I should cruise into these creek inlets and try to mark something of interest on sonar first, Using SI? Then cast some jigs out and cruise back over the area?


    If I can mark some kind of items of interest on SI ( Fallen timber, structure + bait balls), would it be similar to just cast to that area and do a slow retrieve as well?


    Talking 8-15 ft deep, that is pretty far into coves on the south end of brookville lake really. Should I venture north to the shallower end of the lake? It will def be very muddy up there.

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    I will run the sides of the Creek channel,when it’s timber lined. In high water, I will occasionally run thru timber but be prepared to get snagged. I will also cast and jig as well as dippin a jig along the sides of,trees and brush. Your just going to have to try a varity of fishing styles and find fish and see what works for your lake.

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