Thread: Lake Murray today May 19,2015

Originally Posted by Eatmorecrappie

Good mess of fish Kit! Congratulations!! I went Sunday and and man was that a mistake. Crowded, crowded and crowded. Thanks for the report and pics.

Yep, weekends on Murry are insanity. Was up at 4.a.m. this morning and on the lake before daylight.

In the ice cooler are 20 nice Black Crappie waiting to be cleaned. Bear Creek, top of the creek run, just south of a metal electric power line with an eagle nest way up in the top, is a brush pile in 18 foot of water. It was loaded with fish. They liked Electric Chicken Kalin grubs today.

I did not see too many boats today, but there was one nimrod I had to wait on to load my boat, I asked him if he wanted me to back his boat trailer for him......Lol! He was having a time with that.

As for the Gills fished for them for an hour or so, in Hancock creek, another nice deep creek with deep water docks, but things have changed they are now 12 to 16 feet deep and a drop shot rig with two jigs works well. Just drag it along the bottom slow just enough to move the jigs. Kit

Originally Posted by Eatmorecrappie

What kind of jig would you use for gills Kit? Hancock Creek is that Chapin side? Thanks

There is much to that question. A regular ole crappie curl tail works well when they are shallow and active. But when they go deep as the water warms up I find a small black or natural colored hair jig or some thing like the Lindy creature jigs work real well. Depending on where I am fishing I may rig two in tandem or just one if I am working brush piles in front of docks. Those jigs are more expensive than crappie curl tails. Get hung up and you lose two at once. But normally I loop knot two on the line above a 1/4 ounce sinker and cast them that way to work deep banks and points. Those offshore islands and humps will soon be the place as the water starts steaming due to 96 degree days.

Hancock creek on your Lake Murray map is what is called Bass Hotel number two. It has very nice deep water docks all along the west side of the feeder creek and has in its mouth very deep water and 30 plus depth in the main run and 20 feet all the way to the back. The docks all summer have a good 10 foot plus of water on them. They hold crappie in pre spawn and spawn also, but docks on Murry for whatever reason from post spawn until fall become vacant of crappie. I am fixing to start the longline again for summer. Relax and be lazy and fish open water until winter at which time pushin works at 35 feet much better. Then March 1 start chasing the Gills for a couple months again. But I do usually spend an hour or two each trip for the gills on those offshore islands and catch a few Gills to eat. The biggest Gills I have ever caught on Murry come off deep water points such as the point on the west side of Bomb Island. For public waters there are some real big ones found offshore. Kit