Thread: Lots of big crackers coming out of KY Lake

Originally Posted by redearhoosier

I've been looking at all of the pictures on this site and man there sure are some hog redear coming out of Barkley and KY Lake. Lots of these fish are 11/2lbs or better, monsters in my book. Which lake is better for crackers, Barkley or Ky Lake? Also, which lake would be easier to fish for someone that's never been there? Can you reasonably expect to do well on the flats and general areas redear like or do I need a guide? I'm pretty sure I could find them without spending the money for a guide but I know it's a HUGE body or water.

I've got to get down there, those big ole crackers are to good to pass up. My boats only 14 foot with a 6 horsepower motor.

I didn't know there were redear in the lakes.LOL I really think you should get a guide we are not catching these fish on every cast. It takes alot of work to find them even more this time of year. I would not get out on those lakes with a 6hp motor that just my opinion. If you get a north or south wind with any speed your in alot of trouble. Good luck hope you find em!

Yes, everyone seems to be catching a lot of big redear, and the catfishing is good right now also.

The white bass fishing can be good right now in the right spots.

The largemouth/ smallmouth fishing is tough right now, in most areas of the lake.

you have to work very hard to find big numbers of them right now.


But if you come down and try to catch bluegill, and big redear you will probably have a good time.

The lakes are big

KY Lake is 160,000 acres and Barkely is around 57,000 acres of water.

The two lakes combined cover around 220,000 acres of water.

But there are a lot of good spots to go to, so you should have no problems with finding some good Redear, if you go to the right places.

Good Luck if you come to the lakes.

2.5 pound Bluegill taken at Paris Landing State Park. Fishing pier.

Here is a 2.5 pound Bluegill taken from Kentucky Lake.

Female redear.

KY are you the self-appointed cheerleader for KY Lake or do you have a financial interest in seeing every Tom, Dick and Harry come down to experience the unrealistic expectations you are so famous for?

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Originally Posted by mrdux

Female redear.

KY are you the self-appointed cheerleader for KY Lake or do you have a financial interest in seeing every Tom, Dick and Harry come down to experience the unrealistic expectations you are so famous for?

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I am famous for telling the truth, and for being open minded and realistic.

A large 2.5 pound Redear was caught, so I thought people may find it interesting. So I posted it.

I just said the bass fishing is very tough right now. But I was honest and I said the catfishing, bluegill fishing and redear fishing is good right now, if you go to the right places.

To me those are pretty realistic statements.

Originally Posted by Kentucky Lake

A large 2.5 pound Redear was caught, so I thought people may find it interesting. So I posted it.

The article was titled

"2.5 pound Bluegill taken at Paris Landing State Park. Fishing pier."

You might as well have said it was caught by Elvis on a worm grown by an alien. The facts would have all been the same.

let's not harp on this.

Sometimes people that don't know any better, call ALL sunfish, "Bluegill" ... just like they sometimes call them "Bream". :p

And we already know .... ain't no "Bream" in the USA. It's a European fish : bream (fish) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia .... and a member of the Carp family, and not even a "sunfish"

No need to "snipe" at each other, over such a trivial matter ...

... cp