Fished sandies in kickapoo for the first time last weekend. Didnt know there was a "natural" ramp off the 31 bridge, so we put in on the public ramp by 315 in the big water, kickapoo cove, and navigated up the river. On the way back we noticed several fishing the bridge ruins just east of 315. Looked like crappie fishing. Anybody got a crappie report for kickapoo?

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Welcome to the forum.

By the bridges and roads, I don't think he's talking about the Kickapoo Creek on Lake Livingston. Probably the Kickapoo near Arp is my guess.

Referring to Palestine. Didnt realize there was other kickapoos

Sorry, just got Livingston on the brain right now.
I would fish your creek the same way we will fishing it though.
Water temp down there is 65, I would guess yours will be close but not as warm. They gotta be staging to come shallow if they arn't there already.
I would read all the reports from LOP for comparison.
Sounds like they turned on early for that area.

I'm getting reports daily from guys here at work hitting Kickapoo in the afternoon and heading West from 315 to the big island (and several of the smaller ones too), fishing the South facing bank with minners & jigs in 2' & less water. Saw pic of 20 on a string caught Sunday afternoon and one of 40 that 2 guys caught yesterday after work. Everyone seems to be fishing slip floats set at 18" to 2' pitchin to the buck brush & grass edges. It has also been good over on the Sportsman's Paradise bank, same technique.

fishndawg,

pay close attention to pepop's reports(all of them), they are frequent and he know's what he's talking about on Palestine. Don't know him but from personal experience, he seems to always be right on

Thanks pugman for the kind words but you know the old saying, "those who can't do, teach" (no offence to the teachers out there). I'm really not the expert on Palestine but I do talk to and ask questions of some of the best crappie men I know and I really appreciate their willingness to share "tribal knowledge" as well as current events. That's what I like about this forum and many of the folks here. 3 cheers to the TFF Crappie gang.

Thanks guys. Plan is to be on the water Thursday afternoon/evenin and probably Friday too. Will let ya'll know how it goes.

fishindawg, are you headed to the Kickapoo area? I'll be mid-lake with a couple of 8yr olds, probably not doing much fishing myself but trying to find some for them to catch.

I went into Kickapoo last Saturday to just look around. I talked to a boat that was bed fishing a bass tournament and they told me the whole cove just to the left under the bridge was full of bedding crappie.

Pepop, we fished kickapoo cove yesterday. 5 black crappie keepers and 2 small black bass. It was a little slow, 5-7' of water and caught them just over the hydrilla. i think i was in the creek channel, but idk - still learning the area. Going back out this evening. Maybe they will be hungrier with the front moving in.

Still seeing several ppl fishing on the lake side of 315 bridge fishing old bridge. i have no idea if they are catching numbers.

I fished Ledbetter Creek yesterday afternoon and missed several bites (wrestling with 2, 8yr old boys that were more interested in splashing water on each other than fishing) and only used jig & cork. Had cork set at 18" above pink/chart jig. Every bite I saw (probably 8-10) I saw as the cork came up. I must've been distracted. Bite was very aggressive (could tell by the rings as the cork surfaced) Anyway, could see many fish bedding in the thick stuff just out of reach (just took short rods) After about an hour & a half, boys were mad at each other so it was time to go.
Must've been 15+ pontoon's lining the rip-rap of Hwy 315 @ Flat Creek bridge, both ends. Something going on there.

Just as many boats at 31 going south for crappie as north for sandies...few fish but no numbers as of yet. When youfind the right spot you can load up through early May. As cold as this winter was I would thought everything would be last this year. We were skunked yesterday, fished 1:30-4:00. 1 - 13" black bass...

J&P, 10-12 days ago several folks were losdin up on real slabs South of 31 on Kickapoo all the way to Sportsman's Paradise in water that was barely 55 degrees but I think it was just a scouting wave, a REALLY BIG scouting wave. They'll be back.