Catfishing the big lakes.

**smashdn** · 07-03-2016, 07:21 PM

Caught three the other night above Rochester. One fiddler and two blues. Caught the channel while trying to catch a bluegill. Caught the blues on cut bluegill. One went about 8, the bigger about 10.

Mosquitoes ran me off the water. They were unreal.

**smashdn** · 07-05-2016, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by mrdux

Ky is up 0.2 but predicted outflow is less than inflow for next 3 days. Outflow is only going to be 18,135. They normally start dropping the lakes right at July 4th. We'll see.

The predicted amount hasn't changed but the observed yesterday was around 25k. We got quite a bit of rain over this way yesterday. The green jumped maybe 6" in the time we were out on it from 11:00-7:00. All the sloughs and creeks got flushed out. Drift got bad. Fishing stunk.

We are coming to camp at Hilman's weekend after next and hopefully they will be pulling better to turn on the fish.

**M R Dux** · 07-05-2016, 11:29 AM

We got 7+ inches of rain here in Benton 3rd and 4th together. I figure we'll be seeing current and enough mud to plant.

**smashdn** · 07-05-2016, 02:34 PM

Mud ain't good. Ran into plenty of that yesterday. River got trashy quick. Went from a 2oz current to barely holding with 6oz. Hoping it clears and the pull is maintained till the 15th.

**BIGBADDAD** · 07-07-2016, 05:14 AM

Several more inches of rain yesterday afternoon and this morning...7/7/16. I think Dux needs to help me build an ark and Ricky
can rig up some podunk magic on it!!!

**smashdn** · 07-07-2016, 12:12 PM

Got 3+ inches in BG and we got 2.5 according to the mesonet site. Creek is rolling today. It will take 5 days to clear here anyway. I suspect that Green and Ohio will be a mess for a while.

**rnvinc** · 07-07-2016, 07:08 PM

Originally Posted by BIGBADDAD

Several more inches of rain yesterday afternoon and this morning...7/7/16. I think Dux needs to help me build an ark and Ricky
can rig up some podunk magic on it!!!

I have enough xducers on my da'ducer apparatus® to seine the lake ...

Rickie

**smashdn** · 07-12-2016, 06:55 PM

What kind of shape is Ky in now? I been watching both lakes flow and it seems they switch day to day which one they are pulling.

We are still planning on coming over Friday to camp and fish.

**BIGBADDAD** · 07-12-2016, 07:48 PM

Haven't fished cats but have seen boat loads at the dock!!+

**M R Dux** · 07-13-2016, 08:44 AM

Ky is in good shape and Barkley is a bowl of muddy soup with everything imaginable floating in it.

I did see a whitetail fawn bloated and floating down the middle of KY a few days ago. 15 inches of rain last week is going to be catastrophic to wildlife.

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