There is an age-old debate among anglers as to how much color affects fishing success. One angler in Georgia says quite a bit. Stephen Cremshaw regularly fishes Lake Blackshear, near Cordele, GA. He says his experience with crappie on the lake suggests that color in your presentation does make a difference. Lake Blackshear is a relatively shallow 8,500-acre lake located in SW Georgia near Cordele. The reservoir was created as the first county owned, constructed, and operated power dam in the United States. Crisp County Power Commission operates the power dam facilities.
Blackshear has much more to offer than fishing. The 1,308-acre Georgia Veterans State Park uses the lake as a backdrop to an extremely beautiful and useable general recreation area. The park has tent sites, RV and trailer sites, pioneer camping and ten cottages available for rent. Four picnic shelters and two group shelters support group activities. Just about any land-based or water-based activity is possible at Blackshear.
During the construction of Lake Blackshear many trees were left uncut with the expectation that they would die and decompose. As a result, parts of the lake have live cypress trees standing in shallow portions of the lake and other parts have dead trees still standing, some exposed and others submerged. Those stumps make great fish habitat, but knowing your way around the lake is a must for safety reasons.
Cremshaw has years of fishing experience on Blackshear. He has been pinned with the nickname “Mr. Wildlife” because of his knowledge of all the plants and animals around the lake. He enjoys sharing that knowledge on fishing excursions. One of his favorite methods for catching crappie on Blackshear is spider rig fishing the old river channel that was submerged when the Flint River was dammed.
“I like to suspend on the old channel of the Flint River,” explains Cremshaw. “I set several poles on each side of the boat and slow troll the river channel parallel to the old riverbank.” Continue reading – http://www.examiner.com/article/a-secret-ingredient-for-lake-blackshear-crappie?CID=examiner_alerts_article