Crooked Creek Lake

This doesn't feel like crappie weather. Just crappy weather.

There were 3 or four boats out today.  Anybody do any good?

I'll be shore fishing it for crappie tomorrow morning, I'll try and throw a report out to let people know what's going on. Last time I was there was the 13th it was super high and muddy. Hoping to hit into a few schools.
 
Anyone else fishing it lately?

SW Region report
 
Fishing and Boating Report – April 24, 2013 Armstrong County
Over the weekend trout were being caught with minnows in Buffalo Creek and Cowanshannock Creek.
Crappies measuring up to 10 inches are biting at the outflow at Crooked Creek Lake.
Smallmouth bass have been active near the Allegheny River locks.
 
Seems like it's turning for the better FINALLY. 

Fished  Saturday from 7 AM till 11:30 AM from shore on the dam side, opposite side of the beach. All the wooded structure looked great for crappie, but I only managed 5 10" keepers and 2 9.5" gills, along with a whole slew of smaller gills 40+ that were released.  I can't wait to fish it by boat, the lake looks very promising.
 
Also When reeling in a gill a huge large mouth chased it in and jumped clear out of the water a few feet in front of me, that was definitely a cool site.
 
Some other things I noticed: The lake is definitely to small to be unlimited horsepower. Very few boats out until mid morning then a few bass guys got on the lake. Then there was one meathead in a pontoon just ripping his toon in circles at full throttle, doing nothing but causing a lot of ruckus and acting like a jackhole. But hey, to each their own.
 
Anyone else doing any good?

TheBlueLagoon - Are you talking about the overlook? I used to climb down that hill years ago and it was tough then!

just_wanna_fish

in was out there saturday around 4:00 i did see a pontoon boat out there, plus quite a few more boats, i didnt do any fishing just looking around.
the horsepower limit has more to do with depth than size.

No Matter the depth I still find it ridiculous to watch people go full throttle for 30 seconds and come to a sudden halt....just seems silly for a lake that small to be unlimited, especially when pleasure boaters just go wild with limited space...but that's just my opinion

What makes it so bad for shorefishing is that there is very little shore access on the lake & when those boaters come through too fast the waves roll down the shoreline & knock your minnow bucket over & wash it up on shore. Then the waves leave a mud line out about 15-20' from shore.Even though there is a year round no wake zone from the beach to the debries boom, very few people honor it until around Memorial day when the park puts in the marker bouys.Even when the boats hug the side that you were fishing, if they go too fast, the waves still screw up the shore fishermen. I just think that most of them don't realize that. Although there are some jerks that do  it for laughs.  sam

Nice.  Good to see the kids getting out, too.  Chips and chocolate milk for me to keep the kids happy when the fish aren't biting to well...

nice crappies man jealous.

Thanks guys!

I went Friday with my boy again. Couldn't find the Crappie it was night & day different from our last trip. But we did get into the bluegills. Corban must have caught 100 of them on an orange jig head and a chartreuse gulp minnow. He was giving me pointers at one point. :)

I'll be out tomorrow for the first time by boat to try for some crappie. I'll post a report afterwards. Hopefully the cold front/storms didn't rough the lake up to bad.
 
Any one been out with success lately??

got out again Saturday morning for a few hours, tons of boats by the time I left....slammed the largemouth on a scatter raps at sun up, largest was 18 inch, also caught a 17 inch channel on the scatter. After that I tried for some crappie, the bite was good but all undersized.
 
fun times.