KY Lake Trip March 10 - 12 looking for tips

**jmda** · 03-01-2006, 11:33 PM

State Park I think. I did not book it and I only spoke to my friends wife - so not really sure.

**jmda** · 03-05-2006, 03:05 PM

I spoke to my buddy and we will be fishing Blood River.

We are also likely driving to Blood River rather than taking the boat from where we are staying. That is weather dependent.

He has an 18 ft SeaArk bass boat and has had it on Lake Michigan, but we will have 7 and 11 year old boys with us and would prefer not to have too rough of a ride. SO thanks for that post CatFan

Just read an article in In-Fisherman on fishing with crankbaits for Crappie - I bought a couple at BassPro yesterday and may try some. But we will be trolling with jigs for the most part.

**mattcombs** · 03-06-2006, 08:18 PM

Originally Posted by jmda

Just read an article in In-Fisherman on fishing with crankbaits for Crappie - I bought a couple at BassPro yesterday and may try some. But we will be trolling with jigs for the most part.

You mean the Wally Marshall cranks? Let me know how those work. I saw those and thought about getting some, but they were new, so I didn't know.

Good luck to ya!

**driller** · 03-07-2006, 07:53 AM

Staying in Aurora and fishing Blood River? Why? It is a pretty good drive each morning down to Blood River from there.

**chaunc** · 03-07-2006, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by driller

Staying in Aurora and fishing Blood River? Why? It is a pretty good drive each morning down to Blood River from there.

Thats what i was thinking too. Thats about a 40 minute run, isn't it?

**jmda** · 03-07-2006, 10:00 AM

My buddy is a State employee, so gets a deal and he wants to fish Blood River. His boat, his truck; my son and I are happy to be along for the ride.

It will be fun and all reports point to warmer weather.

If any of you know of some good fishing spots closer, we may try those depending upon how Blood River goes.

**johnnybub** · 03-08-2006, 02:51 PM

Im heading down this weekend too,, but Ill be fishing north of jonathan creek,I prefer to stay away from the crowds, since Im just rentinng a little jon boat with a 9.9hp for me an my wife,, I tried to get a guide but all I contacted were booked,, so we are on our own,,, any good places up there to start? this is my first year down there in quite a while,, gps coordinance might help I have a garmin 76,,,
thanks
bub

**badbrad** · 03-08-2006, 05:02 PM

My son and I went out with Richard last year and had a ball. He'll put you on some fish I'm sure. I'll be down there this weekend as well. Tell him his State Trooper buddy in Kentucky said Hi. Might see you on the water. Hope the Thunderstorms don't disrupt things to bad.

**fishn_ia** · 03-09-2006, 02:22 PM

After putting our trip off, we finaly decided to head down this weekend also. We will be fishing the blood river area sun- wed. We're staying at Ky beach resort, and will be in a red lund pro-vee 1900 with 3 screwballs in the boat. lol...

**jmda** · 03-14-2006, 12:27 AM

We had a good trip. My son wants to go fishing again, so it was a successful father son trip. We kept 23 the first day and 25 + 1 blue gill the second day. Most of the Crappie caught did not need to be measured as they were clearly over 10 inches and close to or over the one pound mark. So we did not catch a lot but they were nice sized. We had 3 or 4 around 1.5 lbs and 1 that was 1.7 lbs.

Also caught and threw back several fish - drum, striper, white bass, yellow bass, blue gill, and large mouth.

We trolled jigs, and from what we could see, that seemed to be working better than what other boats were doing. I saw a 3 or 4 Lund boats, but I do remember a fairly nice red one (so I may have seen you fishn_ia). We had a great time.

Saturday catch

Sunday catch

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