Thread: Long lining Ky lakes

There are still plenty of good crappie in KY Lake. Many of us are concerned about the perceived lack of shad/baitfish last fall in areas we were fishing. Others were seeing good numbers of baitfish. Last April we hammered crappie on Green River Lake pulling crankbaits but in 2 days of fishing for 2 boats, we only saw 1 crappie over 14" out of a couple hundred caught. Last year my clients caught dozens of crappie over 15" on KY Lake. I think we are in a down-turn with an up-turn in our near future from all the reported crappie just under 10 inches.

mrdux trumps anything I say by 10X, that said, my answer would be it depends. If you want to visit, and fish the same area and not explore a little, you might see too many minus 10" fish. I don't get locked in to fishing just one area, my range is north to Kentucky line, south to Danville, plus here on West Sandy, and Big Sandy. Especially trolling, we see a few areas of minus 10" fish, so we search until we find keepers. Also we live here, catching a "limit" for us may be enough for dinner, so we throw back a lot.