Thread: Blue Bank Resort - Reelfoot Lake crappie

Blue Bank has great looking accommodations and the restaurant is very good. Since we live 30 miles away I've never stayed there but we have eaten there many times. They have both a hotel type building and several cabins. If you hire Billy or one of the other guides you will be able to catch crappie. If you plan on renting a boat going on your own the likelihood of catching good numbers of crappie is greatly diminished. Depending on the weather they be in the trees and lily pads or may still be in the 6-10' water and spider rigging would be required. It's a beautiful lake but it's not what it used to be as far as catching crappie or bream.


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Originally Posted by Grumpy1

Blue Bank has great looking accommodations and the restaurant is very good. Since we live 30 miles away I've never stayed there but we have eaten there many times. They have both a hotel type building and several cabins. If you hire Billy or one of the other guides you will be able to catch crappie. If you plan on renting a boat going on your own the likelihood of catching good numbers of crappie is greatly diminished. Depending on the weather they be in the trees and lily pads or may still be in the 6-10' water and spider rigging would be required. It's a beautiful lake but it's not what it used to be as far as catching crappie or bream.


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I think we have decided to make the trip. I will look into hiring a guide for one day, but depending on that cost.....I likely can't afford to hire a guide for 4 days. I did order a Hot Spots map of the lake yesterday and as long as I can get someone down there to give me some general areas or spots marked on my map, I should be ok. Im so used to having my Humminbird Lakemaster mapping on my boat, that makes navigation so much easier on a body of water that I have never been on before.

Are you bringing your own boat? There are a few Crappie.com members on here that know a whole lot more than I do about fishing at Reelfoot but if you shoot me a message before you get here I'll let you know if I've been there recently and what I've heard.


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My one and only trip there wasn't a good trip(1st of October a few years ago), didn't catch a fish and even the guides were off the water by noon. I to had the Hot Spot map but found it useless because every 20 feet or less I was rocking my 14ft aluminum Jon boat off a submerged tree in 12ft and 14ft water. Not posting this to discourage your trip but a guide for the first day would be a good idea, as long as your versatile in your crappie fishing skills you will benefit from the guide. I personally vertical jig for crappie and its my style, to hire a guide and spider rig for them I would be out of my element.

Drive just a little farther south to north Mississippi. I know a decent guide.

Hire you a guide, and don't wait till the last minute. They get busy that time of the year. A guide at the foot is fairly cheap compared to what you pay at some other places.

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Originally Posted by Grumpy1

Are you bringing your own boat? There are a few Crappie.com members on here that know a whole lot more than I do about fishing at Reelfoot but if you shoot me a message before you get here I'll let you know if I've been there recently and what I've heard.


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Originally, I was going to bring my bass boat so I had gps and sonar, livewells, etc......but after reading and listening to guys with knowledge and experience on that lake and all the stumps, I decided then that I would leave my Ranger at home. My girlfriend dropped some bad news on me yesterday when she got home from work. She has been sick with the flu (and so have I) and they have forced her to use vacation time for being off sick. Her employer has re-structured their sick time policy because too many nurses were calling in sick and abusing the time off. So.........now, my planed dates of April 8-11 are screwed because she doesn't have anymore vacation time until May. So now......I need to find out if the crappie fishing is good enough in mid May to make the trip?

Originally Posted by Crappiefish123

My one and only trip there wasn't a good trip(1st of October a few years ago), didn't catch a fish and even the guides were off the water by noon. I to had the Hot Spot map but found it useless because every 20 feet or less I was rocking my 14ft aluminum Jon boat off a submerged tree in 12ft and 14ft water. Not posting this to discourage your trip but a guide for the first day would be a good idea, as long as your versatile in your crappie fishing skills you will benefit from the guide. I personally vertical jig for crappie and its my style, to hire a guide and spider rig for them I would be out of my element.

I personally have never spider rigged for crappie. Only way we ever fish them up here is right after ice out and we catch em in the lilly pad patches before they grow to the surface and usually just cast a tiny bobber rig.