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Crappie in Lake Conroe
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02/06/13 08:42 AM
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ultimate fisherman
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Are the crappie going to the shallows in Lake Conroe any information will help thanks
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Re: Crappie in Lake Conroe
[Re: ultimate fisherman]
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02/06/13 04:34 PM
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Joined: Nov 2007
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Jig On
Green Horn
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I am going fishing Friday....will give you an update afterwards.
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Re: Crappie in Lake Conroe
[Re: ultimate fisherman]
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02/06/13 07:14 PM
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crappiejigmaster
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A friend of mine is catching them in 10 ft of water early in the mornings. My fish are coming from 22 ft of water early also. I don't think they are in spawn mode yet but I fish the Walden and 1097 Bridge areas.
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Re: Crappie in Lake Conroe
[Re: ultimate fisherman]
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02/11/13 03:23 PM
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Jig On
Green Horn
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Went scouring the shallows on Friday morning (2-8-13) for the first half of the day and only caught 2 LMB. Moved out to deeper water (20 -24) feet in the afternoon and caught 3 nice slabs, a couple of throwbacks, and a couple of catfish.
Jig On
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Re: Crappie in Lake Conroe
[Re: ultimate fisherman]
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02/11/13 05:37 PM
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War Eagle Bream Buster
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I've done the bridge thing for the past few years on Conroe. Seem to catch a few but never a cooler full. I think I need some professional help to help me peg them shallow or on brush piles. Any advice on a good crappie guide on the lake or any other insight would be greatly appreciated. I grew up bream fishing in TN so the crappie and TX fishing are still alittle new. Thanks.
Matt
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Re: Crappie in Lake Conroe
[Re: ultimate fisherman]
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02/12/13 01:41 AM
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Lonestar Proud
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Call Butch Terpe, Lake Conroe Guide Service, 936-856-7080. He guides out of Stow-Away Marina.
Since they killed all the vegetation out of Conroe a few years ago the crappie fishin has suffered considerably. You can still catch some good slabs, but the numbers just aren't there like they used to be. I haven't put a short fish in the boat in over two years on Conroe, that alone tells me there hasn't been a spawn that survived long enough to mature in quite some time.
Butch and I spoke in length about the downhill slide of the crappie fishery on Conroe a couple of months ago. When he said he's not catching the numbers he used to catch either. Our theories were the same...
Sorry for getting on a soapbox, call Butch and he'll try his best to get you on some fish. Good Luck!
-LP My hair's turnin white, my neck's always been red, my collar's still blue
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Re: Crappie in Lake Conroe
[Re: Lonestar Proud]
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02/13/13 05:30 PM
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War Eagle Bream Buster
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Thanks. I have found the bream fishing to have tailed off the last two years. My theory is grass carp run them off the bed as I have caught a grass carp on two separate occasions over a hot bream bead and then not get another bite.
On a side note, is Lake Livingston Crappie/Bream fishing alot better than Conroe? I've never taken the boat up to test it.
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Re: Crappie in Lake Conroe
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02/13/13 05:49 PM
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YassirSanchez
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I remember when the Yuppies first put those Grass Carp in Lake Conroe years back so the Jet Ski Crowd and Real Estate Developers could profit.
It was one heck of a fishery until that happened.
Now that place looks like the 610 Loop in Houston at rush hour.
A Texian is just a regular person way out on a limb
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Re: Crappie in Lake Conroe
[Re: YassirSanchez]
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02/14/13 02:03 AM
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Lonestar Proud
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Thanks. I have found the bream fishing to have tailed off the last two years. My theory is grass carp run them off the bed as I have caught a grass carp on two separate occasions over a hot bream bead and then not get another bite.
On a side note, is Lake Livingston Crappie/Bream fishing alot better than Conroe? I've never taken the boat up to test it. The lack of vegetation has hurt a lot of species on Conroe, no place for fry to hide and evade larger predator fish. I remember when the Yuppies first put those Grass Carp in Lake Conroe years back so the Jet Ski Crowd and Real Estate Developers could profit.
It was one heck of a fishery until that happened.
Now that place looks like the 610 Loop in Houston at rush hour. Yuppies?? You sir are being very politically correct!!
-LP My hair's turnin white, my neck's always been red, my collar's still blue
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