Thread: Kentucky Lake Report

I ended up with 12 good black crappie ( biggest about 1 1/2#) and 20 GOOD yellows. I was casting jigs and minnows under a bobber on gravel points and banks. It seemed that the fish would turn on during the periods of the hardest rain. It was really nice to only have 2 boats get within 100 yards of me all day! The wind kept me off some of the places I really wanted to be. Seems the weather kept most folks at home. The first fish I caught was a drum about 10 pounds. They are a ball on ultra-light tackle!! I'm just glad I didn't have about 6 poles out on a spider-rig.

I fished Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday afternoon in the West Sandy portion of Big Sandy and caught fish (spider-rigging) everywhere I fished in depths of 8 to 15 ft of water. I kept limits (30 fish) on both Tuesday and Wednesday of nice fish fishing by myself. It rained and stormed on Thursday and I woke up Friday to high north winds and rolling waves. But the wind died down so that a partner and I fished Friday afternoon about
3 1/2 hrs and kept 27 nice fish. All the fish were caught on orange and chartreuse jigs tipped with minnows. I talked with a few of my fishing buddies who fished further up Big Sandy in the Country Junction and New Hope areas and they caught high numbers of fish spider-rigging in 4 to 8 ft of water around old stump beds and really had nice fish.

At one time on Wednesday afternoon I could count 60 boats in the area of Big Sandy where I was fishing....and I could see most everybody catching fish. Of course, Big Sandy is a large area and a lot of people fish it this time of year, but I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's probably the "best" place on Kentucky Lake to catch crappie......bar none! In fact, I don't know a better place around, unless it would be Reelfoot Lake, which has become one of the most noted crappie lakes in the country.