Lake Shelbyville Fishing Report

The lake is at 599.77 or summer pool and the water temp. is 69-70. Kind of stained due to recent rains. "WHITE BASS" Shad are still shallow up on flats. Had whites bust on me twice today but not for long. I am still throwing my spoon hair jig combo in areas that I see seagulls and pelicans. That means bait is in the area. However I will be switching up to strictly crappie soon as the days grow shorter and it gets cooler. "CRAPPIE" I am drifting minnows across Shelbyville Cubes and wood structure. I have three in the [...]

Water levels are 600.80 or roughly one foot above summer pool. Outflow below the dam has almost stopped. The water temps are 77-80 and the lake is very clear. "WHITE BASS" I am still throwing my hair jig spoon combo on flats where I see seagulls and pelicans. That means food is present. Also if you are not getting hit by the millions of yellow bass your in the wrong spot. Getting out early is very helpful so you can see where the birds are. These fish are shallow 1-6ft. Being in the right spot critical as it seams to [...]

Water temps are 78-80. The lake is still falling back to summer pool. Dropping almost 4in. a day. This morning still up 2ft. About a week and we are finally back to normal. Water is gin clear all over the lake. "WHITE BASS" Whites love the heat and with that comes a nice southwest breeze and pop up showers. All those represent a white bass beat down and that is exactly what I have been doing for a month. Just two days ago a single client and I caught 151 before noon. I idle along the leading edge of a [...]

Water temps are running 84 and the lake is gin clear. The lake level is still 5ft. over summer pool and dropping about 3-4in. a day. At this rate by my next fishing report everything should be close to normal only a couple feet high. "CRAPPIE" Lots of short fish is all I hear from everyone. Mainly because the lake is so high the larger fish are just roaming under balls of bait in open water making it difficult to locate them. We have close to 3000 manmade structures in the lake that house millions of crappie. Problem is they [...]

The lake is falling fast, about 3-4in. per day. Currently 9ft. over summer pool. Water temps are running 83-84 and the lake is gin clear. There is a strong thermocline developing. This has all the fish in the top 15ft. of water column. "CRAPPIE" Last week just hammering the crappie on top of the Shelbyville cubes 18-22ft. deep hovering minnows over them. Then the water temp. rose drastically and overnight everything that deep was gone. That is when I started to see a thermocline start to develop. With all the crappie the top ten ft. of water column this brings [...]