whitebass year round

**barrelslime** · 10-01-2011, 05:25 PM

Welcome to the site Randy. You will learn alot here.

**RandyJ** · 10-01-2011, 08:53 PM

Thanks for the welcome and I do hope to learn a whole lot! I know for a fact that there are some really nice crappie in Smith Lake but I rarely have seen them. I've been told about people catching 30-40 on an Easter Sunday. Once I was waaayyyy up a feeder creek when I met a guy who gave me 6 HUGE crappie. Yet, about all I ever catch is regular ol' large mouth and spotted bass. It gets kind of boring after 20-30 years of hardly catching anything else except bream and an ocassional catfish. I tried going below the dam to catch the stocked rainbow trout but they're so small that they're not worth filleting. I've got to learn how to catch and how to hunt down crappie. I've heard stories but know that if you know what you're doing you can catch fish any day of the year in this lake yet it is a very difficult lake to fish.

**Ahill** · 10-07-2011, 02:26 PM

Also, they can be caught at night under a light.

**biggerjigger** · 10-07-2011, 04:50 PM

I troll clear lakes in the summer and target Whites, Wipers and Saugeye. Usually have great success in the hot summer months. Generally scrap out a nice mess of crappie in the process. Hot months I can catch all the whites a man could ever want in a day!

**Roughneck** · 10-27-2011, 07:44 AM

Try trolling a Flicker Shad.

**SeaRay** · 10-28-2011, 04:03 PM

Let me pose a question to you guys. Back in the 80s we used to fish the upper Santee Cooper lakes in March during the White Bass spawning run. We camped on an island in the upper swamp and fished feeder creeks and caught a ton of them. Then one year we noticed no one was fishing the area we always fished and we spent 4 days (12 of us) and caught maybe 5 White Bass. Same thing at Lake Murray. Use to catch them schooling in the mornings and afternoons and catch a dozen in short order, now they have disappeared. (Both of these lakes are in South Carolina)
What has shown up are thousands of White Perch that no one ever talked about in these lakes in years past. Do you think the perch crowded out the bass? Our DNR folks never had a plausible explanation as to what happend to them. The drop off in Santee Cooper was drastic. We heard rumors that the big Blue Cats that were stocked in Santee ate the White Bass. I find it hard to believe they could have wiped out that fishery. However if the perch follow the same patterns and eat the small fry then maybe they were the culprit.
We have so many White Perch in the lakes here that they were declassified as a game fish this year and there is no limit on them.
Anybody else seen this??
Thanks,
SeaRay

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