Originally Posted by FishHuntAlways
If it's been 15 years since you were last at Turtle Creek you are in for a nasty treat!! First off they put something in the lake or I heard they got the water to hot?? Not sure what happen but there is VERY-VERY little weeds anymore so no place for minnows to live . Put this with the MILLIONS on little channel cats in there and a crappies has a very small chance of feeding. Good luck casting anything small for crappies without catching a boat load of small cats. LIVE BAIT? forget it! you will feed the cats. They took the limit off these catfish a couple years back in hopes of guys catching them out or at least removing part of the problem. The thing about bass is you use larger baits to fish for them.
They should let catfishermen fish at no charge and have weekly catfishing contest to remove as many of these as they can! This catfish problem has really hurt this lake for all types of fishing. Dont help eighter the lost of weeds! Oh yes it is a 10hp limit, but a couple battiers and a trolling motor you can fish a lot of water. A place to camp? On the road going to the ramp there is Mollys bait shop that has a limited amount of camping. Better yet 4 1/2 miles from the ramp in Sullivan Co. park. Great camp grounds, a real nice lake with thousnads and thousands of crappies. You have to release a ton of smaller crappies to keep a limit for eatting but fun to catch. There are a lot of EYES in there also. I lost the biggest catfish I have ever seen in that lake fishing for saugereyes. 6# test line just didn't make it! I mean BIG!!!
Here is a couple places that can give you daily information on Turtle Creek.
Molly's bait shop--812-356-4743 and Trotter Sports Center 812-268-3559
Mollys is on the road to Turtle Creek and Trotters is in Sullivan 4 miles from Turtle Creek
Charlie