well we went out to Downs after hearing all about the awesome crappie fishing with people hauling in the big crappies...well three of us went out in my buddies boat and it was our first time on this lake so we headed out and tried the padline in front of the launch but didnt ever get a single crappie all afternoon ....fished from about 3 until dark....we did catch a few trout, not that we wanted to, and caught about 35-40 perch, most of them around 8.5 inches but ended up keeping 12 in the 9-12 inch range...all fish were caught on either red/chartruse crappie tubes or on yellow ones....had 3 largemouth follow our spinners (WHITE) had one bad hookset on one and faught him for about 3 seconds and he came off. saw one guy land one largemouth fishing a black jig in the pads. ....does anyone know where to go for crappie here?...they said right in front of the launch but that didnt work for us...we went to the left and eventually on the opposite side of the lake to the left.... anyway, still a good day and got some tasty perch....if the pic shows up, the bottom fish is almost 10 inches for reference...
