Went down to Kentucky Lake and fished yesterday and today. Had to get on some decent action somewhere, Shelbyville is killing me this summer. Anyway nothing to really get excited about but we did clean about forty on Saturday and fed ourselves and the two rooms of Bass fisherman adjoining ours at Fishtale. They own Seaton's restaurant at the top of the hill and will fry your fish up for you. We had a ball though but no pictures, wife forgot to pack camera. Our biggest two were fourteen inches but very skinny almost sick looking. The smaller fish had bigger bellies but hey it is August. Several times on Saturday I saw what looked like white bass busts were actually Kentucky Spotted Bass. I would just throw my crappie jig at the bust and I must of caught fifty of them from one to three pounds. I caught two channel catfish biggest was about ten pounds. Try putting that in an ego net.

The lake is full of grass as it always is this time of the year and we did our best in brush that had weeds in it.You had to watch your jig very closely on the depthfinder and keep it just above the grass that is in most of the brush. I used a quarter ounce Bighead (white) and a emerald blue Midsouth tube. Had to have a crappie nibble on it to get any action. Today it was tougher so we switched over to minnow rig and put them in rod holders and just kept them right over brush and moved ever so slightly around over brush, then the pole would just load up. Patience was the key today, yesterday we caught a bunch of them really popping the jig up and down several feet and they would hammer it on the fall. Today no movement at all.

There is nobody crappie fishing as everyone is a bass fisherman and I have all the best spots to myself. Caught very few fish under ten inches and most were twelve inches or bigger. Just not real heavy.

Every time I go down there I am reminded of how spoiled these people are and it is a different world with pro-bass rigs everywhere. Wrapped boats, boats with three hundred horse on the back, just a ton of nice rigs. My little 21 foot Ranger with the 225 on the back isn't even close to big dog down there.