However, in the spring, you can catch some really good-sized fish." "I've been fishing Wylie for 50 years, and it seems like it's been going downhill the last five years. "It's really tough to get on crappie and catch them like you used to at Wylie in summer and fall," Neeley said. Recent anecdotal evidence from crappie chasers such as Neeley bears out Dorsey's figures. Wylie's clear water means it's a totally black crappie lake (white crappie like dingier waters). A typical day showed just 2.7 crappie per net set each 24 hours, and that's way behind a lake such as High Rock, which was 17.8 (for black crappie)." "We only sampled the North Carolina side of the lake. "Our last net sample was in 2005, so that's five years ago," said the WRC's Dorsey. The rest of the year, crappie fishing at Wiley can be tough. Today, Wylie is a true trophy lake but only for anglers during spring when fish congregate at spawning creeks, brushy shorelines and docks and are easily caught.
However, that fact has created a fishery with crappie that come in jumbo sizes. Spring is about the only time anglers should fish for crappie at Wyle, the last of the Catawba River impoundments in North Carolina (the lake's lower half is in South Carolina).Īlthough Wylie once was a booming crappie lake similar to High Rock, numbers of fish have declined. "If I find a hot dock, I'll stop and cast jigs." "I'll just troll faster to keep the baits at about 5 feet deep," he said. You can look for (sunken) brushpiles, too, but mostly I'm looking for stacked-up fish in open water."īy the end of March and early April, Neeley changes his tactics and beats the shoreline like everyone else. The crappie will be in the creeks during the pre-spawn. "I'll go to the heads of creeks in February," he said, "or maybe the first section of the lake's headwaters. Neeley said he uses the same techniques during February, March and April in order to cover a lot of water, looking for stacked-up schools of crappie. That way I can pinpoint a certain water column that's holding fish."
I also use two depthfinders, a (two-dimensional) screen and a 3-D screen. I use three 'cast' rods to see where the fish are. "Everybody has a different way to do this. "I'll have a few jigs on really short lines right off the back of the boat," he said.
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