Black Butte Lake

Anybody have any recent intel on Black Butte Lake?  How are the water conditions?  Low and muddy?  I'm looking to target cats or crappie and I'm thinking about making a trip across the valley to give it a try weather permitting this weekend.

Bret

Black Butte is at 21% of capacity now (with decent inflows in progress). Sounds bad, but actually the current level is 103% of average storage for this time of year and the lake now holds nearly twice the water it did last year on this date.

Here's a link: Stony Creek/Black Butte Res.

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES
 
Good luck fishing! Should be some color in the water at least near the creek inflow bays/arms.

I've been thinking about running down and checking it out also, but haven't heard any news.  I reckon those fish haven't had much pressure in the past year. 

What's the main quarry in Black Butte these days?  I recall hearing it was a good crappie lake.  Is that still true?  I remember stopping there once as a little kid.  We caught a few little largemouth, but no crappie.

I was down there about three weeks ago gathering some red jasper, pig scouting and doing a little upland gaming. Water level looked good. Definitely not full,  but far better than it was. Crappie fishing can be outstanding or frustrating.  I hear that catfishing is great right now though. I don't have details on exactly where on the lake,  but my buddys' neighbor is regularly running from Anderson to Black Butte just for catfish and is having success.