wilson launch, pymy.....

anyone here fish the bay due west of this ramp?  believe it is known as black jack bay.  is it wadable?  my buddy and i were thinking about getting up in there as soon as the ice comes off .

chug, i fish a bay down south and have seen portions of bennett bay as you say.  still have some weed growth and timber there.

really appreciate the info.  hope to be there in a couple of weeks.  thank you.

Crappie shouldn't mind the silt as much as the eyes crappie will still move into the dead lilly pads often. The eyes still prefer the gravel bottom, but chug's right over the last few years bays have really seem to have silted over. Even some of the old nice, sharp dropoffs I liked to fish are still there but not as drastic.

Once the ice comes off and a few days of sun/warming you can't go wrong fishing Wilson's Bay, Black Jack Bay, Bennett's Bay, Crappie Bay (imagine that), Duck Blind Bay, Red Cross bay, etc.  Not to mention that Bridge 20, the rocks, and the Spillway will all hold crappies. 

My buddy and I make up our own names for bays, points, areas, etc. at Pymy and all the other local lakes. That way when we are talking, others have no idea where we are talking about. Plus it is fun to get creative with the names. The biggest problem I have had with the silt increase is you can't get as far back into some of those Northern bays at Pymy as you used to and wood cover that used to hold fish is now completely silted in, but I agree it does assist with how fast those bays warm up in early spring.

If you head towards the causeway from Wilson (in a boat) Clark Island is to your left.  The "bay" that you are looking at as you are running parallel to the island is Crappie Bay.  Once you get to the south end of Crappie Bay, there is a visible sand bar.  Directly across that narrow from the sand bar is an island and the bay behind the island is duck blind bay.
 
 

Rap, I spend most of my time at Pymy fishing for LM above the causeway but if you look at tournament creels over the past 5 years at Pymy you will be see a definite trend of bags of SM being in the money, particularly in the early spring buddy tournaments. Last year SM dominated at several weigh-ins. I occassionally "run into" some SM by accident and when I do they are usually good ones but I need to develop some strong SM locations when I want to specifically target them. It is reaching a point where if you are not on a strong SM bite don't even bother entering those early spring tourneys. If I decide to fish some of those tourneys this year I need to spend several days up there only trying to locate SM so I may take you up on your offer. Chug