Lake Shelbyville Fishing Report

The lake level is 600.00. Summer pool is 599.7 so very close. The water temps are running 67-71. The lake is very clear about everywhere. "Crappie" We are concentrating on stumps off flats or Shelbyville Cubes mid-lake to south end. All with a slip bobber and a minnow. Better grab a bunch as we are going through about ten dozen a day. Depth on my slip bobber rig runs from 9-14ft. depending on the cover. I fish this way all summer simply because I have three in the boat most days and we all can fish off the side of [...]

Water levels are coming back up to 600.5 or roughly 1 1/2ft. Water temps have been everywhere from 62-74 the last few days. We need these 46 degree nights to stop. This makes the baitfish inactive and the rest follow. The white bass and walleye won't even bite until noon or better. If you have a few crappie spots left better guard them until the overnight temps stay above 60. "CRAPPIE" Believe it or not there are female crappie just bursting with eggs and males still coal black. For the most part the spawn is done and some crappie just [...]

The lake level is 600.47 and dropping. The normal summer pool is 599.7. The projected forecast is they will slow down the gates this Friday May 16th. This will stop the hard current we have in the lake just totally messing up my Livescope. That and we have a bunch of pollen on the surface. I am taking my transducer out of the water several times a day and cleaning it with a vinegar solution (Hot Sauce). Seams to help. CRAPPIE!!! Water temps are bouncing around from 64-70 and hopefully the 46 degree nights are behind us. With the warm [...]

The lake level is 600.5 just about a half foot over summer pool. The Corp seams to be content leaving it there hopefully no huge rains. These last two weeks I have seen the water temps go from 54 to 72 then back down to about 59-61. Between the fluctuating water and the big cold fronts this has dropped the crappie back to deeper water. Those still clinging onto three-feet spawners are left puzzled. I am and have been through this whole ordeal been fishing ledges 8-18ft. on stumps, cubes and brush. Close access to shallow water from Eagle boat [...]

The lake has come up to 600.54 and currently that is 4ft. over pool so they will be dropping it when they can. Water temps. are 56-60 as of April 27th. The crappie spawn is full on and the males are all darkened up. I am fishing rocks, stumps, anything in the 4-8ft. range on the north end with a 1/8oz. Deep Ledge Jig and a Brushpile plastic in anything with chartreuse and pearl or white. They don't care. The last four days we have boated three limits in less than four hours the fishing is on fire. Haven't been [...]