Kayak Trip Report, Moulton New City Lake

I took Friday off work and fished Moulton. Cold morning, but warmed up nice by 8AM. The water surface was down to 77 degrees with visibility of about three feet. I hoped to find a few gills, but all the beds I found were empty. Not sure if the cooler temps had pushed them off, fish had already spawn out or someone cleaned them out last week. I did managed 15 keepers that were between 9 and 10 inches and many, many smaller toss backs. I also didn't catch a single Crappie. Slow day for this little lake, but still a fun trip without the heat. I fished a 1" Yo-Zuri Snap Bean. They only run about 18 inches deep, but the gills love them!

Nice report DB

Glad you got to go! Makes me feel a litter better when even you have a tough day! Thanks for sharing

Good report!

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I think I'm going to chase Crappie on my next trip. Gills are working for me this year, LOL!

I went to Moulton City Lake Saturday morning and started trying for crappie up around the dam intake with no luck. Switched over to bream for a while with now luck finally started fishing for green carp and started catching a few. I had a lot of fun fishing for the smaller bass around the edges with a white marabou jig and a spinner. Made a good day of it. The deep clear water has always been my downfall.

I like the lake since there's zero pressure, but the gills spawn in 5 to 6 feet of water and most of what I catch is from water 10 to 15 feet deep. Fishing a 1/32oz jig on 4 pound test in 15 feet of water is out of my comfort zone and pushes my skills. I seldom find fish stacked up, but the gills are huge when you find them. I put back a Shellcracker last year that was 14 inches and weighed around 2 pounds with my largest gills just under 12 inches. I didn't know redears got that big!

If you go deep on City Lake it causes you to learn to use your depth finder or you are just fishing blind. I plan to go back some more and just work on learning to use my depth finder better. I caught 1 huge Redear over there last year out of about 15 feet...marked him on my depth finder and then caught him.

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Originally Posted by Ditch Basser

I like the lake since there's zero pressure, but the gills spawn in 5 to 6 feet of water and most of what I catch is from water 10 to 15 feet deep. Fishing a 1/32oz jig on 4 pound test in 15 feet of water is out of my comfort zone and pushes my skills. I seldom find fish stacked up, but the gills are huge when you find them. I put back a Shellcracker last year that was 14 inches and weighed around 2 pounds with my largest gills just under 12 inches. I didn't know redears got that big!

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They get a lot bigger. Our SC state record is was caught in the diversion canal between the two Santee Cooper lakes. Biggest one I've caught was shade over 2# , but they get a lot bigger. This was from our State DNR records page.

Shellcracker

5-7.5

Diversion Canal

1998

Amos Gay

Appling, GA

Wow!!!:yikes:yikes:yikes:yikes:yikes! I like to see one that big in person or even better catch one ! you talking about a fight

I'm not sure I'd even be able to get a Shellcracker that big to the boat on 4 pound line, LOL! One that big would fight like a 10 pound bass.

I still envy your trips in the yak. To me that is fun, basic simple fishing and catching. That's the best kind.
I think SC was also the world record until Lake Havasu started giving up monsters.

I think we all envy his trips. Even people with big boats comment and envy his trips. Lol. I’ve had a couple opportunities to fish with him and wasn’t able to make it but hope to go learn something sometime.


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Small water is magic, even when you find small water areas on big lakes. Every time I go it's like fishing the farm ponds of my youth. Seems most try to relive that experience in a big rig on big water as they get older. The problem is your competing against everyone else. I'd rather be the only person on 10 acres of water rather than one of hundreds on Guntersville. :twocents

Went back to Moulton this morning, left with 14 good gills before the rain chased me off. Several dozen little ones and bass retuned. Slow day, but any day on the water is better than a day at work.

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Originally Posted by Ditch Basser

I took Friday off work and fished Moulton. Cold morning, but warmed up nice by 8AM. The water surface was down to 77 degrees with visibility of about three feet. I hoped to find a few gills, but all the beds I found were empty. Not sure if the cooler temps had pushed them off, fish had already spawn out or someone cleaned them out last week. I did managed 15 keepers that were between 9 and 10 inches and many, many smaller toss backs. I also didn't catch a single Crappie. Slow day for this little lake, but still a fun trip without the heat. I fished a 1" Yo-Zuri Snap Bean. They only run about 18 inches deep, but the gills love them!

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Any day off of work is a good day. LOL