Thread: Bluegill/redear guide

I'm looking for advise on a guide to hire at Kentucky Lake. I have taken my Father on some guided crappie trips the last 5 years, but would like to mix it up this year. I have heard from Illinois crappie guides Kentucky Lake offers awesome Bluegill/Redear fishing. Can anyone offer any suggestions?

For $35 less than what a well-known Kentucky Lake crappie guide charges per day, you can fish world-class private ponds with me. I guide on several phosphate pits that were mined by TVA in the 1930's and '40's and that I now manage intensively for trophy bluegill; in the three years I've been offering trips on these ponds, every party that has fished with me has caught at least one bluegill 10" or better, and every party but one has caught at least one bluegill 11" or better. And the party that didn't catch an 11" caught this:



Here are a few more examples of what you would catch in a day's fishing:

Ky Afield went with Jim Doom of Between the Rivers Guide Service, but fished on Barkley Lake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzgk8tmkF9g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--_qtmMOZcA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-UtaG2wvg4

... cp

Originally Posted by CrappiePappy

Ky Afield went with Jim Doom of Between the Rivers Guide Service, but fished on Barkley Lake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzgk8tmkF9g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--_qtmMOZcA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-UtaG2wvg4

... cp

What he said X2.

I forgot to mention I'm only seventy miles from Kentucky Lake. My best pond now has several bluegill over two pounds in it, and I saw one in September - got a very good look at it at the surface - that would've gone three pounds if it weighed an ounce.

^^^^^^THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those are 3 of my all-time favorite videos of gill fishin. Thanks for bringing them back up. Only 6 more months til the gill spawning season.

TNpondmanager I'm interested in learning more. We have a guy in Illinois that manages ponds, and does fishing trips as well. I believe his name in Nate Herman. Do you have a website?

I am familiar with Nate - he has grown some big bluegill up that way for sure. I'm sure if he lived where I do he would have put someone on a three-pound bluegill by now. One major advantage I have in this area is being able to stock coppernose bluegill, which are a subspecies of bluegill native to Florida; they're basically the bluegill equivalent of Florida-strain largemouth, i.e. a substrain native to Florida that grows much larger on average than northern-strain bluegill. They don't do well in cold climates, but do fantastically here. Two of the four biggest ones I posted photos of above are coppernose. And, there's a high probability that the giant I saw in September was a coppernose. I do have a website, ***************. I'm having a new website built that if I understand my web designer correctly, will be up within days; but the present one has info on my guide service as well (it just doesn't have a lot of the big fish photos that the new one will). Feel free to send me an e-mail here or directly through my website, or you can call me via the number listed on the site.

the coppernose get larger than the red ear ?