Thread: Is anyone catching any red ear on Kentucky or Barkley Lake?

Let me ask you guys with more redear experience this....should I be looking further in than they typically spawn with this high water but still in the same areas I have seen them before or should I be searching for new gravely areas that the high water has created?

They're biting, 2 ft of water in people's backyards.

I took a coworker Thursday to Carmack, said he used to really catch em in there. We caught only 2 but caught 20 plus catfish along the back of the bay and had 13 big gills. I stopped and checked a stakebed I put out and caught a couple of big crappie out of it, one was around 2lb.

Originally Posted by redearhoosier

They're biting, 2 ft of water in people's backyards.

Thanks for the report...... now if only I could get off of call for a few days! They will prolly move before that happens..... lol.


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Nope...bowfishermen have poached em all

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Originally Posted by Pirogue

Nope...bowfishermen have poached em all

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Just prior to F&W designating redear a sportfish in KY and putting a 20 fish limit on them, an LBL ranger checked a bowfishing boat on north Barkley that had over 200 redears in a cooler that they had shot off beds. That was not the 1st time that Ranger had seen that. Do you really think that somebody who figured their chance of getting caught were pretty much zero would have any incentive to stop that practice?

I would say the shooting of redear still goes on, maybe not to the extent it did when it was still legal.

Originally Posted by mrdux

Just prior to F&W designating redear a sportfish in KY and putting a 20 fish limit on them, an LBL ranger checked a bowfishing boat on north Barkley that had over 200 redears in a cooler that they had shot off beds. That was not the 1st time that Ranger had seen that. Do you really think that somebody who figured their chance of getting caught were pretty much zero would have any incentive to stop that practice?

I would say the shooting of redear still goes on, maybe not to the extent it did when it was still legal.

What would you say is the average depth of water that the shellcrackers bed in ?

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The cabin creek popeye is what I use for big gills and red ears - though I tend to have better luck overall with the purple color versus the black, but sometimes the black works a bit better.