Huntsville State Park 10/1/17

I took the kayak and fly rods out to Huntsville State Park on Saturday morning. I got started around 7 AM. I went to the right from the boat ramp. I fished along the bank with a small topwater fly trying to catch redear and bluegill. I followed behind a pair of bass fisherman for about 45 minutes. They didn't get a bite and all I got was a couple small bluegill bites.

I headed over to the dam and continued to try the popper and other small subsurface flies for bluegill with no luck. I tried throwing a popper dropper for bass with no luck either. I spoke to another pair of bass fisherman and they had only caught one bass. They told me a good spot to try for bluegill so I did. No luck again.

Finally, with no luck on bass or bluegill I decided to go fish around the stick-ups for crappie. I ended up catching a 1.5 lb. bass and 6 crappie in the 11.5 to 12 inch range.

I spoke to 3 other bass fisherman and none of them had caught a fish. All of the fisherman I talked to were fishing shallow for the most part. I didn't really see many people working deeper water.

All in all I was disappointed. I have only fished there once but had great luck catching big redear and bluegill the last time I was there. Oh well, that's fishing. I'll give it a try again sometime soon.

That place will drive you crazy. It looks like a big fish bowl. If I fished it 10 times in a row, I would probably be disappointed 9 times.

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Thanks for the report, how did the water look?

Good report, we camped there with the scouts and got a few here and there, Saw some big ones that took minnows from night crappie fisherman, Whole thing looks fishy but I agree with Kevine and Rayzor. If scouts not camping there, no way I would drive there.

There was alot of small debris such as dead vegetation floating in the water but the visibility was good. Only slightly off color.

Thanks everyone, I appreciate the comments

This is exactly how the water looks every time I have been.

Well last time I was there I seen lot of new healthy looking vegetation, guess tpwd took care of that for us again. Was bout 2 to 3 months ago

Nice post and fish Jamie! Good job.

Every time this lake gets healthy, someone goes out there and kills anything growing in the water.

I remember when the lake was full of hydrilla and Lilly pads. It was a meca for big fish. You could go down the bank during spawn and pass up 6s and 7s to find bigger fish to try and catch. What a shame another amazing body of water ruined.

But now campers can fish from the bank and catch bluegills.