Celina or Indian Lakes?

[southiblkm]

Does anyone fish these lakes? Is now a good time to fish them?

[redearhoosier]

I've had lots of success on Indian but it's been five years ago. I noticed a decline in the fishery in 2008 after a wonderful 2007. In 07', my wife and I slayed some serious shellcracker and caught several nice mess of crappie that were 11-13inch class fish. I caught two shad under bobber in 08' and I knew something was wrong. Celina is a very deep lake with lots of 30-50foot water columns. I've never had the success at Celina but I haven't put the time in on Celina either. I've logged some pretty good hours down on Indian and am strongly considering going back.

The major problem with this lakes is the traffic. These lakes aren't secrets anymore and since folks don't have access to farm ponds like they did 20 years ago, it's common to encounter 8-10 boats on these 150 acre lakes. That's way to much for my taste because you simply can't fish the spots that you'd like to. These lakes have been strong producers for panfish for years. My friend has a 3lb crappie on the wall he caught from Indian Easter Sunday back in the late 90's. I always reckoned I would catch a two pound redear out of Indian or Celina because of rumors I've heard. Try em.

[indianachinker]

Was there Indian Sat.never caught to many keeps. Some guys at ramp said fished out.

[Ken Kinser]

tipsaw is the best right now its just down the road about 2 miles

[seagullplayer]

Fished Indian Monday night, caught nothing. It was up and mucky. Caught some nice ones there April 30th.
Hope to try it again tonight after work, but might give Tipsaw a try. Bought a season pass, need to get my moneys worth!

There is also saddle lake on down 37 closer to tell city, look for the signs. They opened a little bait shop in Getchel (sp) last year, just past Saddle.

Fished Celina a couple weeks ago, didn't do any good. I find Celina a hard lake to fish, the water is very clear. One of the prettiest lakes in Southern Indian come October. IMO

[redearhoosier]

I've always thought Celina is the hardest lake for almost any jon boat style fisherman to attempt to fish. For starters, lots of jon boats don't have anchor ropes long enough for the unusual depths of that lake. I've found a deep hole around the dam that was like 67ft of water and it's just not the dam that's deep. Some of those arms have 40 or more foot of water columns in the middle of them and there's just a ton of 30-35ft columns of water.

I do think Celina probably has some monster crappie and redear because it's got more water and places to hide in. Celina doesn't get near the pressure that Tipsaw and Indian get because of the tough conditions. I'd like to try Tipsaw.