Post-spawn, Rowell said the majority of crappie anglers key in on ledges, drop offs and any man-made structure that exists in the lake. He said fishermen do extremely well and catch fish in an honest 2-pound range and up.ĭepending on the stage of the spawn, fish can be caught in the backs of the tributaries on different forms of structure. Rowell said April is an excellent crappie month on Flint Creek. Maybe it aerates the water or something, but it really doesn’t hurt the fishing.” You can have a boat go by and cast right in the wake and catch a bass. I think all the waves pull the shad to the surface. “If you can fight the waves, you can still catch fish.

“In summertime, you’ll get a lot of recreational boat traffic,” he said. Rowell said the wave action can be good for the fishing. While April may be a little cool for jet skis and water skiing, Rowell said by summer recreational boat traffic exceeds fishing traffic. If you follow those points out and fish at different depths, you’ll find a bass out there and white perch too.” If you’ll watch as you’re fishing around the edge, you’ll see points going out in the water. “Out in the middle, it will be 30 to 40 feet in places and then it shallows up as you come in,” said Brewer. While the fish may spawn in the backs of the coves and cuts around the lake, Brewer said he long points produce better bass and crappie in April. It’s best to use light line or at least a fluorocarbon leader because the water is so clear.”īy the end of April, both bass and crappie will move out into deeper water.

“I like to throw a crankbait when they’re schooling (surface feeding), something in either a clown color or natural, like a crawfish or chrome pattern. “A lot of bass school in this lake because of all the shad,” said Rowell. Rowell said after the spawn, bass will move off the points and can be caught nearly year round using a Carolina-rigged lizard in watermelon seed colors. During April the bass move shallow and are susceptible to topwater baits and sub-surface baits like flukes and Senkos. Me and my grandsons, we’ve caught fish all over this lake from one end to the other.”įlint Creek’s main lake points are the key to its consistent bass fishing, according to Rowell. One fish may be running deep and the other kind may be running shallow. “There’s good bass fishing in here, bream and crappie, too. “It’s just like any other lake, you’ve got to experiment, use different colors at different depths until you hit the right things,” he said. He said the clear water warms slower than other lakes and the fish will tend to hold deeper at Flint Creek. Brewer said it’s the clear water that can make the lake tough on newcomers. It’s fed from Flint Creek on the other end and there’s water coming in from another creek too.”ĭespite the tributaries, Flint Creek is clear when compared to similarly sized lakes in Mississippi. “We have control of the flow of water going out of the lake. “Flint Creek was built by the Army Corps of Engineers sometime around 55 years ago as a recreational park,” Brewer said. The District manages eight Water Parks, and seven have fishing lakes. The fish that are there are healthy and they reproduce really well every year.”įlint Creek’s 650-acre lake and 1,900-acre water park is managed by the Pat Harrison Waterway District, a state agency located in Hattiesburg. It doesn’t require a lot of management from a fisheries standpoint. “It gets a lot of fishing pressure and it can be a tough place to figure out, but it’s got a real healthy shad population and that right there is the key to why it’s such a good bass lake. “Flint Creek is a very dynamic lake,” said Rowell. To Rowell, it’s a good place to go set the hook on a hefty largemouth bass, especially in April.

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