Starting a new year

[raggedwood]

Just got the boat out, gassed up and the batteries charging. Has anyone got anything good to say about Shelbyville, Charleston:confused or Mill Creek?

[sparky197]

Shelbyville is slow, as of last weekend. I don't know many guys on here that fish Mill creek but the word was they were catching a lot of nice fish there after the ice off. The price to fish their seems high.

[Fishinman91]

If you are asking about Lake Charleston in Charleston IL, then I fish it quite a bit.

It is a nice little lake but not much in the way of catching BIG crappie. I have caught some nice ones but most are about 7 inches or less. This time of year, i tend to catch some nice ones. I fish it because you can always catch some fish and I prefer crappie to bluegill for eating. Its a small city lake so it should be warmer than shelbyville and the bite usually is a little earlier.

Two weeks ago, I fished shelbyville on saturday and then Charleston on sunday. I only caught about 5 crappie on Shelbyville and about 50 on lake Charleston. The difference was those 5 crappie on Shelbyville were a lot bigger, the biggest was about 13+ and the smallest was just at 10 inches. All 50 from Lake Charleston were smaller than 10 inches, actually probably all less than 9inches. Of those 50, i still only took home 5 of the "biggest" ones.

Hope this helps.

Fishinman

[ohail6]

HEY old boy...are you going to make it next week or find an excuse:p like work or somethun??? Get those lakes figured out down there and I will try to get down to show you how to boat"em:D:D:D
Give me a call on next week it looks like the weather is going to be pretty good..If the lake is no good we can always go to the pond!!