Thread: KY Lake

Originally Posted by Amartinbio

cant do a ride along with covid, but you can do a ride beside in your boat if you want. Little river is the only site we have left to do on either lake. Should be Thursday or Friday weather dependent. We won’t see many crappie most likely due to the timing, but bass and redear will be seen. As for the redear we saw this week, our best day was in big bear. I have never seen them so concentrated. I always tell people that 95% of each bay won’t have a single redear. That other 5% will be packed. Anyway, hope this helps. Maybe we’ll see you out there.

I would love to see what you guys can shock up in the Little River area. If you can come back into Drydsen Creek (also known as Party Bay), and shock that would be great. I'm a work at home employee and can flex out some time to observe either day. If you can send me a PM and I would love to follow along to see if my theory holds true or it gets blown out of the water, no pun intended. Thanks

Kentucky isn’t really my home lake, anyone that has taken a multi day fishing trip on KY lake yearly has spent more time on KY than I have in the last 5-7 years before this past fall. I like the dirty water on Barkley. I did have waypoints and beds I had put out from several years ago in some areas but have also made trips to areas starting completely blank and done well. Bottom line is I believe Kentucky has fished well over the past 9 months and is trending in the right direction.

Can’t speak to Little River other than I know a pretty nice tournament bag of crappie came out of there a few weeks ago. I did put in at a different bay in that general vicinity for couple hours one afternoon before the ice storm came in February and caught a bunch of healthy crappie that were what I would call line burners, all 9.5-10.5”. Like Adam mentioned in about the redear, these crappie were heavily concentrated in a small area of the bay. Have made several trips to this bay even though it’s a long drive for me and this spot always holds fish but never seen a “local” or any other boat in the spot. Like I mentioned before though, Barkley is off a little from a few years back. I have seen it some in my preferred areas and got a message last week from another experienced friend that had three boats of experienced fisherman that only had 9 keepers all day. But some areas are holding decent numbers of fish. And it’s not just tournament fishing guys with Livescope like me catching fish in these areas. I know of one pretty new crappie fisherman that has done well long lining catching quite a few crappie along with white bass, gills, redear, etc.

I am not going to argue with you guys or comment anymore in this thread, just get tired of seeing people run down the lakes. Like I mentioned in my first post, I wasn’t and am not poking at anyone’s ability to catch fish. Just pointing out that I have spent a lot of time in several areas of both lakes and there is still some pretty fine fishing on both lakes. A lot of us have or have had concerns about the lakes in recent years but overall I think they are headed back the right way. The next month or two will be telling though, we need good bait spawns like last year.

The bluegills are bigger this year than I've seen in my 8 years here. I always thought the bluegills should've been nicer fish and this spring has shown promise for the bluegills.

I agree totally. During the weekend I believe I ended up with 38 gills total. They were the largest on average easily I've ever caught. That was the great to see.

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