Category Archives: Crappie

October 2, 2013 – Walnut Creek – Joe Pool Lake

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Wind was super high, so I decided to go over to the creek. Water was light brown and the water temp was 77 degrees, but it went up to 80 before I left. The first fish I caught was a small catfish on a silver crappie crank bait. The catfish’s mouth was stuck between two of the barbs on one of the treble hooks, so I was forced to hold it with my hands to remove the hooks. (See my previous posts about my luck handling catfish.)

I jigged a few stumps, but didn’t find any fish. I stopped by a tree in 6ft an pulled out a nice crappie. I thought surely I would be able to catch a few more, so I turned on my gopro and started hitting stumps and trees. Twenty minutes went by without a bite. So off went the gopro. Dirty water in the creek usually means slow fishing.

I caught a few more small crappie here and there.

I threw the spinner bait around a few stumps and got a nice 4 lb bass to hit. It didn’t hit until it was about 2 ft away from the yak. I only had a small amount of line out, so I grabbed it with my net.

September 28, 2013 – Walnut Creek – Joe Pool Lake.

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Made a quick run over to Joe Pool to check for crappie.  Caught a few small ones while jigging stumps.  The water had cleared up from the rain last week, but I couldn’t find a large number of fish in any one location.  Found a few small bass and bluegills where I expected to find crappie.

Water temps were 77 degrees.  Rain was forecast for the afternoon, so I planned to leave around noon.  Well at 2pm I noticed a dark cloud coming in from the west.  I was only five minutes away from my car.

Then Boom!!!  Rain started pouring down.  I had to paddle to the car while getting soaked.  I was in a small cove, so I wasn’t too worried.  As soon as I get to the shore, the rain stops. Figures…






June 8, 2013 – Walnut creek – Joe Pool

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Just got the new Ascend FS128T from Bass Pro, and took it out for a test run. This is my first SOT, so i was a little wobbly at first. I went out to open water, and only got a little water in the yak.  The sun got rid of that.  The only problem I had with the yak was the little rod holder that’s right next to the seat.  There is no way to paddle once a rod is in the holder.  It needs to be moved up.  The yak moves at around 2mph just casually paddling.  I got it up to 3mph by going a little harder.

I went over to Walnut creek and quickly got a small crappie and a small bass on a spinner bait. I threw the road runner around the area, but did not find anything else.


I threw my popper long the tree line and caught several small bluegills. The bite died down, so I put on some of the berkely gulp maggots and caught a few more. I even pulled in a small channel cat.



As usual, the big fish of the day came as I was leaving the creek. I threw a spinner bait near a beaver hut on the shore and reeled it back a few times. Got a nice bass sitting near a stump.


Same fish…