Thread: Kentucky Lake Question ...

Plowed their fields wrong? New one on me. Maybe they turned them up rather than no-till. Hard to blame farmers for what several inches of rain did.

PM Chaunc. He's fishing out of Kenlake and should be able to help.

How does one go about plowing a field wrong?

I haven't seen any ground broken around here yet because of the wet spring, let alone one done wrong. Those farmers must really not know what they're doing. They've somehow managed to keep Blood River muddy all winter and 99% of the spring.

I am certainly not a farmer and may not be stating it correctly but I was told that some farmers did something that caused a massive runoff that really messed up that particular creek. I am not talking about water that looks like chocolate milk, I could have thrown a penny in the creek a couple of weeks ago and it would have floated. Again, didn't get the full story, I just know that what was there a couple of weeks ago wasn't there only due to the rain.

If there was some sort of discharge, it should have been reported to authorities. Since there has not been a word in any media about any run-off or discharge, I figure somebody was just blowing smoke to cover up their lack of fishing skills. Stained to muddy-enough-to-plant are just water conditions we have learned to deal with over the years here. If I only used water color as a reason to go fishing or stay at home, I would sell my boat.

if on a slope you can plow wrong, never plow up and down, go with the contour of the slope to keep rain run off down to a minimum. learned that from my uncle years ago.

Originally Posted by wannabe fisherman

if on a slope you can plow wrong, never plow up and down, go with the contour of the slope to keep rain run off down to a minimum. learned that from my uncle years ago.

That makes sense. And their seed wont wash away

This post has zero to do with farming practices. It has everything to do with here-say complaining about water conditions. Unless somebody made a huge unlawful release of some type of liquid solution into the Ledbetter Creek watershed, the water color was the result of heavy rain runoff. Show me a creek anywhere on any other lake that is not effected by several inches of rain on ground that is nothing but soup from the winter weather we just went thru.

I'm going to stand up (pretty much always will) for the farmers in this watershed. My wife's family farmed in this very area for over 150 years on the same ground. I have several friends who also farm ground in this area. No responsible farmer is going to do anything unlawful to hurt his livelihood or the ground he depends on for that livelihood. Run-off is going to happen in the best of scenarios. The ground around here is so soft that all the correct farming practices like no-till or leaving the crop residue on the ground to prevent it is going to help in a season like this. Also, no responsible farmer is going to plow or work his ground in a manner that will create washing away the topsoil he has worked years to develop.

Yes, KY Lake is going to get muddy when we have serious amounts of rain. Always has and always will. It is nowhere near as bad as it was when I started fishing it over 50 years ago. It wasn't caused by some farmer plowing his field wrong then and it isn't now.