Nice mess good job. Never fished Lemon before. It's on my to do list this year though
Got on Lemmon at 7:30 this morning, went to the spot I found them Sat. and started cranking as lake was mirror calm, no breeze, pure sun, water temp started out at 65 and by 1pm it was 73 and at noon the wind picked up finally to about 10 mph. All morning in the too calm water that was clearing finally even tho it was still muddy in areas, I pecked away and by noon had 16 in the box all 10 to 14 inches. Last year, never caught one 14" crappie and this year, I have 3 now. Todays pig weighted 1lb 10 oz. and was full of eggs. Went the breeze finally kicked in at noon, in that 300 yd spot, I must have caught 30 fish and finally limited out at 1:30 as they were on booth sides of the creek channel in 10-14' of water on the break, and once again, after trying a dozen diff. colors, purple/chartruese 300 bandits were the only thing they would hit. All 25 keepers were females,,not a male in the bunch! I also lost 6 good fish as they just never hammered the cranks very hard and were barely hooked with the treble hooks of the crankbaits. Fish were very finnicky to say the least. I also tried shallow but nothing would hit, even jigs. Also, speed was 1.6. Any faster or slower they wouldn't hit. Several boats fishing submerged cover near the banks and spider rigging with minnows weren't catching many if any keepers either as I had 4 boats stop me and ask how I was catching them. Its definitely a screwie spring but will go back and see how they move as sooner or later, I should catch them where I always have along the banks in the shallow flats near weed beds but they are definitely not ready to spawn as the eggs aren't even ready in the females I cleaned today. I also ran couple of miles of creek channel, and didn't catch one fish either, so I don't have the answer as to why they are staged in one area. Weather bug says more chances of storms/rain for Thurs thru Sun. Just what we need. Friends of mine are nailing good gills/redears in strip pits near Linton, and they are not seeing any on the beds yet either. They are catching them in deeper water but a bunch at a time too. Good luck fishing.
Last edited by cevans; 05-15-2017 at 05:14 PM.
PROUD MEMBER OF TEAM GEEZERauthorized by: Billbob and "G"
Nice mess good job. Never fished Lemon before. It's on my to do list this year though
It's 11th largest lake in Indiana, 1650'acres owned by city of bloomington, 15.00 to launch. Once Memorial Day is here, not fishing it as it's,surrounded by homes and they all pleasure boat and jet ski it. Also, IU's boating teams practice on it so part is idle zone especially when they are having sculling meets with other colleges. Sat and Sun is rough to fish also so that is out now that it's warming up,for me. One ramp boat launch also. It is what it is but it has crappie so I will fill the freezer when I fish it.![]()
PROUD MEMBER OF TEAM GEEZERauthorized by: Billbob and "G"
Those are some quality fish
Sent from my Z959 using Tapatalk
good fish
PROUD MEMBER OF TEAM GEEZER
Crappie.com Pro Staff
Guber Pro Staff
Cane Pole Pro Staff
Haulin Ash Pro Staff
Damn nice catch Chuck. I am headed to Patoka shortly. Time to try out my line counter reels. I hope to snag a few.
Nice job!
Sent from my E6782 using Tapatalk