Returning to the Brook

[Jamesdean]

Great read and pic's as always Ketchn. Thank you for the ride along.

[Slab Apprentice]

Kaboom is the word


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[Ketchn]

Kaboom is the word


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if you never been to the brook you might like it , full of crappie for sure , BUT the timber is a boat killer in there , so be REALLY careful , that stuff kills more boats per year than you can imagine ,open water is often NOT open water , me and several folks I know have killed a few boats in there , one buddy took the air on a huge stump and my hit wasn't much different
just a quick fyi if you go there bro ....
with the lake going up and down in depth so quickly and frequently what was safe yesterday may not be today....

[hdhntr]

I too am literally on a good fishing lake every weekend but it's where my pontoon and condo are during good weather months but havn't really fished it last two years. Probably because I have had such good success on other lakes from winter into spring and despite giving away lot of my ketchn still have plenty so kinda go into cruising moded with the wifey and friends. just realized havn't had my TM in the water for two summers nor fished the productive docks like I usually do.

Inspired me to get toon out and call my fishing buddy capncrappie and get after them. He is like me a mostly bank/dock dude who does live on this lake and ketch's loads more than me but when we do hook up Kaboom usually is in order. He rarely gets his good bass boat out to fish our two lakes. Last time we went out to hit docks we loaded up the livewell with good sized crappie. Times a wasting!

about how a metro lake can still have large populations of crappie despite a lot of pressure? Fishing biologists who I have spoken to say we worry about it way too much as it's more about how good was the spawn that matters. Crappie are uber productive and can out reproduce what the fisherfolk take. Obviously the Brook is a good example of that with a lot of cover for them.

[Ketchn]

even the open water lakes in these parts consistently produce large quantities of crappie and like stated anglers really dont' make a difference in the numbers according to the fisheries folks here as well .
one big black nasty cormorant can easily ketch and eat more than most anglers do in an entire year in a short period of time and then imagine a swarm of em out there just pillaging herds and herds of crappie ....
when it comes to crappie mother nature drives the numbers of them

[Slab Apprentice]

if you never been to the brook you might like it , full of crappie for sure , BUT the timber is a boat killer in there , so be REALLY careful , that stuff kills more boats per year than you can imagine ,open water is often NOT open water , me and several folks I know have killed a few boats in there , one buddy took the air on a huge stump and my hit wasn't much different
just a quick fyi if you go there bro ....
with the lake going up and down in depth so quickly and frequently what was safe yesterday may not be today....

Appreciate the heads up bro! I need to get up to PK and try to find them bluegill!! Long drive for me tho about 2.5 each way


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[Ketchn]

Appreciate the heads up bro! I need to get up to PK and try to find them bluegill!! Long drive for me tho about 2.5 each way


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If you really want to hurt pk bluegill, word has it that it’s KABOOM at night under the lights…fyi