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![]() Michigan is beautiful and great for targeting walleye (get much larger than New York), trout and bass. Depending on how big your net is (might require a couple day trip to be profitable) and if you have a rod holder I enjoy St Croix and Everglades a lot more. That area is one of the deepest spots on the lake.Īnd the “hourglass” effect of any crappie migrating having to come through that area makes it popular.Emerald isn't much fun for me either. Navigating the Black Lake part of the complex is difficult: The channels are not well marked and it is stumpy.īut anglers can find the Highway 9 bridge area fairly easy. That jig is a local product made just for this lake.” You can’t beat any of the gray or dark-colored Black Lake Series hair jigs. ![]() “Some days they are not picky, but if the bite is not really on, you want to use a hair jig,” Jennings said. Shiners come in a close second, but hair jigs are No. “One thing is for sure, the fish are in deep water this month.”Īnother sure thing is that crappie like hair jigs on the 13,500-acre lake. “The colder it gets, the farther down the channel the fish go all the way to Black Bayou. “Black Lake is basically shallow, so when it turns cold, the fish head down the channel into Clear Lake,” said Brandon Jennings, a regular on the lake and the director of the Bayou Crappie ETC crappie tournament circuit. That’s important because Black Bayou is the place to be this time of the year because the scenery improves greatly when you are holding up a couple of slab black crappie. To make it even more confusing, when you leave Black Lake and cross Clear Lake, you end up in Black Bayou. West of the Highway 9 bridge is called Black Lake, while below the bridge is called “Clear Lake.” The beautiful cypress studded lake actually has two names.
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