Thread: Big Sandy Over Weekend

Took one of my oldest and dearest friends down on Friday. Left at 5:00 AM got on water at noon. Had winds of 11-15 out of north so we went down Tennessee River to Leatherwood to get out of wind. I only know about ten brush piles in there so we fished them all in about three hours. Headed back north in four-footers and tried mouth of Big Sandy but that wasn't going to happen. Went to Eagle and found area out of wind and stayed there until dark then had to go north under 79 bridge. Now we have six-footers no sign of wind dying. Got up on Saturday looked outside and it was pouring rain and temps had dropped to 30 degrees. Watched weather and winds were to be 20 to 30. Expecting two inches of snow and same for Sunday. So we loaded up and headed home. Hit ice at Paducah and by the time I got to Mt.Vernon for gas we had three inches of ice in bottom of boat. All in all 16 keepers and thirty shorts. Not much for a 620 mile road trip and four hours of fishing. Undaunted though and going back again this Friday. Weather man lyed to me or totally missed the ice storm. Usually I am better at timing it but I know they are biting and with this weeks weather it should get good. Just pack the raingear. Fishtale Lodge all weekend if anyone is in area stop and say Hi.

Steve--as bad as the weather was I,m surprized I was,nt there [LOL]--
I thought you were going but don,t have the courage to trust the weather forcast--going to make it down one of these days and see where the action is--

I admire your persistence. Here's hoping the "wind gods" smile on you this time around. Good luck.

CR

reminds me of a trip, Rob and I made several years ago. We went to Mark Twain with my aluminum boat, which is 175 miles from home. We launched and ran a couple miles to little indian, caught 2 fish and a guy in a Ranger said we should leave, as there were high wind warnings on the lake, barely made it to the ramp, drove to lake Decatur, back in Illinois, fished 20 minutes, caught 4 and the tornado sirens went off. we just about had the boat tied down when the storm hit. We ended up driving 400 miles and fished a half hour all day.

LSG, me and my x-boss (very good friend as well) went down friday as well. we didn't leave till 3 pm. we arrived at 8:30 and notice your boat at the lodge all covered up! we stayed in the cabins up on the hill. we were up and fishing at 7 am saturday in the west sandy. this arm was out of the wind and two guides down there told me they have been catchin a few in there. sunday was WINDY!!! OMG windy but we fished. monday came and still windy but we fished again all three days hitting brushpiles and stakebeds threw out the arm. over and over again. and not another boat out there till 10 am on monday. we found over 150 spots to fish in there. all of our fish were big enough we didn't have to measure. biggest one was 14 3/4 inches but for the most part 12 to 13 inches. and what was the funnest part of our whole trip, was we could see the ramp from where we were fishin and truck after truck and car came to the ramp. looked for a while and left. when we loaded the boat each day we had several admires wantin to know how we did... and when we showed them. their jaws just dopped....

Did you put in at Britton Ford?

CR

CR yes, tried monday the ramp where LSG told me he puts in at but not much of a cove and the mouth of the big sandy was ROLLIN again! 15 to 20 mph winds. so we load up the boat and right back down to britton ford.