Are the crappie going to the shallows in Lake Conroe any information will help thanks

I am going fishing Friday....will give you an update afterwards.

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.

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.


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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

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!

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.

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.

The lack of vegetation has hurt a lot of species on Conroe, no place for fry to hide and evade larger predator fish.




Yuppies?? You sir are being very politically correct!!