You can dip a minnow below a cork, around brush or wood and catch various fish. Look for the quiet pools or eddies to throw small crank baits, jigs, small spinners, and use small baits as they are more productive. Fish will mostly be facing upstream as to feeding. It’s productive small mouth and you will catch ky spotted bass in streams as well as a few lg mouths, I know the Asian Carp down below Seymour and Bedford are slowly having their effect on blue gill and crappie, catfish, as well as sauger and bass from local boys complaining a lot in the changing fisheries and it’s a matter of time as they will and are all the way up where you are at. One thing you will find, you’re liable to have it all to yourself for a enjoyable experience as it’s not overrun by the masses.
Some of my fav. baits, small square billed cranks in crawdad colors especially deep red, small spinners if you can find them anymore or supplement with beetle spin or crappie size Road runners, any plastic, but don’t overlook Curley tails, small. 6-8 in worms Texas rigged or drop shot style, black or black/blue rubber skirted jigs 1/4 oz, with pork rind or plastic small crawl tipe dressed on it. Summer time,, even top water baits of all kinds including buzz baits, the reliable rapala stick baits even, River fishing has its hidden surprises and can be super fun and doesn’t take a lot of water to support fish. Good luck.