Thread: Eastern KY crappie fishing

Welcome neighbor. You will find there are some good post on here concerning Cave Run but not so much on the other lakes in our area.

Those lakes have fish, but are not easy lakes to stay on them. Most beautiful lakes in the state, but 100' of water is hard fishing.

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There seems to be a few crappie fishermen in the area. Everyone unfortunately tends to travel such as we do to crappie fish. Are there other lakes nearby that you suggest? You said that you mostly fish Yatesville and Grayson. I see in your bio that you live at Fallsburg, so do you put in on 1185? We live outside Fallsburg as well and put in there.

I think "LittleJohn" fishes Grayson & Cave Run ... and seems to do OK on them. You might PM him & see if he has any helpful info to share.

No. I put In at the marina when I fish Yatesville. I have never had a lot of success on Yatesville crappie fishing. The man that runs the bait store on the road to the marina told me there is an older man from Paintsville that does really good there. The bait shop owner was a little skeptical until the man stopped and showed him his catch one day. I have a friend that lives in Prestonsburg who claims they catch some nice crappie there. I think they mostly fish from Daniels Branch and on up toward the head of the lake. I wish I could be more helpful.


The man I fish with likes to fish Grayson. We fish mostly from the dam to just above Cliffty Creek. We catch a lot of crappie but very few of them are over 11inches. Brad Taylor at Borders Sporting Goods told me a man showed him a picture of one that supposedly came from Grayson this fall that was over 17 inches and I have a good friend who caught one 16 inches this summer but those are very rare as I am sure you well know.

Over the last couple of years, we have only fished Grayson and Yatesville a couple of times. Caught more crappie on Grayson but they were just babies. We are spoiled. Where we fish in South Carolina, the average are probably 12 inches. Several in the 15 to 16 range. Some larger slabs. We have found a nice campground down there. We have a fifth wheel that we take and stay a month. Right on the water. Put the boat in and leave it for a whole month. There are times though when we are at home that we would really like to just go locally for a day or even a few hours.

Bmccorm, Yep, I know about being spoiled about SC crappie. My best catch there was 25 crappie at Santee, 52.5 lbs/25 fish. Moved back to KY about 3 years ago. Nothing like this opportunity here as I know, but, you can catch some 1lb crappies if you work at it. I would guess KY/Barkley would your best chance to catch 2lb crappie if the Asian Carp have not decimated the fishery. Don't think any other lakes in KY. have the potential for this size. Most fishermen go South to catch nice size crappie that live in KY.

Originally Posted by perchjerker108

Bmccorm, Yep, I know about being spoiled about SC crappie. My best catch there was 25 crappie at Santee, 52.5 lbs/25 fish. Moved back to KY about 3 years ago. Nothing like this opportunity here as I know, but, you can catch some 1lb crappies if you work at it. I would guess KY/Barkley would your best chance to catch 2lb crappie if the Asian Carp have not decimated the fishery. Don't think any other lakes in KY. have the potential for this size. Most fishermen go South to catch nice size crappie that live in KY.

Uhhh .... you're forgetting Cumberland Lake, aren't you ??