Thread: cypress spring cove

nobody must have ever fished there

maybe they don't understand what you're saying. Are you asking if fishing is good there at that time or are you saying you're going there at that time?? If you're going there I hope you have a great time, I've wanted to go for sometime only to Blue Bank. Maybe someday. Never fished there so I can't help you on that part

It might also help if you tell us what lake you're referring to .... Reelfoot (Cypress Point) ... Ky Lake (Cypress Springs Resort) ...

(I'm assuming you're asking about a lake in this state or one that someone in this state would know about from regularly fishing it )

i fished the cove where cypress spring resort is, on Kentucky lake last sept, the 3rd week, I caught roughly 2 dozen crappy all week but they were all nice,,, now in 2018, I will be there, the 2nd week of oct.,,, i wood just like some tips on how and where to fish,,, weather its in the cove or in the main lake,,,ty in advance

hmmmm,,, the repliers are as tight lipped as the crappies

Originally Posted by toasttttry

hmmmm,,, the repliers are as tight lipped as the crappies

Well, your title says Cypress Springs Cove when you actually want to know about Cypress Bay and the time of year you are asking about is as unpredictable as most any time of the year. There might be very few crappie in the bay or they might be heavy depending on how the weather has been. Some years it's practically still summer then and others it is very much fall. When I fish in October I just find the shad and start fishing there. Since Cypress Bay is mostly in Tennessee, you might have better luck in that forum.

I think you are talking about Cypress Springs Resort on Cypress Bay which is a Bay that lies in both KY and TN. The very back of the bay is good for big crappie in the spring when the big females come into spawn in the shallow water. The water is stained back there and so the fish spawn in 2 to 3 ft of water. Casting jigs on 2lb mono line with a slip bobber is a good method of catching the fish. Be very quiet when approaching the area you intend to fish as in that type of shallow water they fish are very spooky. But if you can sneak up and anchor quietly and cast out a ways you can catch some fish if they are there. The time of the years is key. Weather dictates when the fish will spawn on any certain day. And the lenght of the day is consistent from year to year. But you have to combine the lenght of the day/time of the year with the weather conditions. And the lake level makes a difference too. Falling lake levels will draw the fish out into deeper water. Stable water levels and rising water levels will bring the fish in.

When I fished there the last time there was still a gravel road that went across the back of the bay. On the side near Cypress Bay Resort there was a channel about 4 ft deep with wood poles driven into the lake on each side of the channel. I use to fish that little channel along the edge of the poles and catch crappie. I use minnows and 10 lb test mono line and a big red/white bobber. That was back in the 1980's before I started specializing in catching crappie only. Now I fish with 2lb line so that I can cast jigs with ultra light spinning reels better. And I will sometimes use 6 lb test mono When fishing dingy water with lots of wood cover in it.

If the Buck Brush is still back in the back of the bay that is also a good way to dip minnow or jigs around the roots of the buck brush. But that last few years I went fishing there the Buck Brush was gone. But in the 1960's when I started fishing that area there was buck brush all along the edge.

I was told many years ago to fish out by the large wooden pole at the mouth of the bay. I have side scanning sonar on my boat these days and have a map on my hummingbird side scanning depth finder that shows the hydrographic contours of that area. But I've not fished that area of KY lake in many years and back then all I had was a hummingbird depth finder and it would have taken me hours to make the bay and then I would have to keep the map of the bottom in my head. My fishing partner didn't have the patience to do that with me. Thank God for GPS and side scanning sonar equipment as they make it much easier to map the lake bottom and fish better. If you have this type of equipment on your boat, you may check out the mouth of the bay and find a channel that comes off the old riverbed that swings to the Cypress Bay side of the lake at the mouth of the bay. That pole marks the mouth of the bay. To the South there was an Island and then another small bay. We used to fish around the island. We were fishing for LM Black Bass back in those days an only fishing for crappie in the springtime. I spend many years fishing that Bay when the weather and wind kept us from going out on the main lake.

If the lake is calm we would head over to Panther Bay and up the lake towards the dam to Shannon Creek.