Lake Shelbyville Fishing Report
Fishing Report August 1-15
The lake level is 599.82 or right at summer pool. Water temps have bounced up to 85 earlier this past week with the heat and now dropped back to 80. This has put the crappie in summer locations which mean channel banks, points on main lake and mouths of coves. All on timber weather it is lying down or vertical. I am starting to see a thermocline on my Livescope at about 18-20ft. This will put the crappie in very predictable areas. I am using a slip bobber and minnow and my Livescope tells me what depth the crappie are [...]
Fishing Report July 15-31
Water temps. are bouncing around 80 and the lake is very clear on the south end and stained on the north. Has dropped a couple inches nothing major. The best thing I have seen the last few days we got that algae bloom I was talking about on the last report. I have seen the north end covered in a green slime. The bait fish are all over the surface feeding on it so that has got the white bass fired up. I have been fishing edges of flats with wind pushing white bass up out of the deep water [...]
Fishing Report July 1-15
Water temps are around 76 and gin clear. Lake Level is at summer pool. I have been just crappie fishing for a week now and catching close to a hundred a day. It takes that many due to the small fish being so numerous. We have still been able to get three and even four limits each day by moving around a bunch. Two or three over ten inches and twenty under ten per spot so we move every 10-15 minutes. This is why a guide is very helpful plenty of spots, no time wasted. We are tight lining minnows [...]
Fishing Report June 15-30
The lake is at summer pool and gin clear. Water temps. today were 75. Man do we need some rain. The walleye like every year have changed up their feeding habits and switched to nights. I have some buddies fishing from 7pm to 4am. I cannot due to a guide trip next day which runs from 7am to 3pm. I have been pulling bottom bouncers and spinner rigs with pretty good success in 21 guide trips counting walleye both over fourteen inches and shorts we have boated well over 200 walleye with four being 24in.or larger. But they have drastically [...]
Fishing Report June 1-15
The lake is at 600.8 or just barely above normal summer pool. Water color is very clear due to almost no rain. Water temps. about 75. As most of you know I am full into walleye fishing for the next few weeks. Once we get closer to very hot summer like weather and tons of pleasure boats I tend to switch back to crappie/ white bass combo trip. Simply because the walleye tend to start feeding more at night and I can't do those trips and day trips as well. We have been having pretty good success on the walleye [...]