Thread: Times R tuff on Ky Lake

I'll be giving the crappie a break and hoping that the turkeys are a little bit more cooperative. :D

Originally Posted by crappiepappy

Ya'll come on up to Green River Lake this Sat (Apr 16th) and join us at the Slabfest :p

We're gonna meet at Holmes Bend ... fish from ~ 8AM-130PM ... clean the catch & start cooking around 2PM (more or less). Spider rigging, longline trolling, casting to cover, drowning minners should be the ticket for that area of the lake. Can't guarantee any MONSTER Crappie ... but, they're in there Thumbs Up you just gotta find'em Doh

... cp

Wish I could make it but I gotta head back to the boat Thur.

Just got back myself, and in 20 plus years on KY lake I've never seen it like this with water temps in the 60's...We normally limit out this time of year about every time and we barely got one limit in 3 days fishing!! I never saw one gar the whole time..That tells me no eggs have been laid!

Originally Posted by Wiskers

Just a bad year boys. The fish are as confused as we are. Still some big fish deep. They are just not where they should be given the conditions we have. They're fix'n to make a run though. Should be a good spawn year. Hopefully I live long enough to benefit from it.

Hey Wiskers,
I ran into a friend of yours (at least he said he was) over at Hillman Ferry. He's an older guy (but I guess we all are) said he was a retired truck driver. He said he spends about 6 weeks or so in both the spring and fall each year there. We'd see him at the cleaning table most evenings. I never did get cross the lake this trip.

We fished blood river fri sat sun. Fri we had 14 really nice ones 1.5 lbs average. Sat we had 15 with alot of throwbacks. Sunday we had 15 in about 3 to 4 hours with several throbacks than left for home. Bite was good at first light and right @ dark. Fished stakes from 4 ft to 1.5 ft deep. Went back to crappie cove for a while sun but the wind was to strong and we were only getting little ones there. Marabou char and pink was the best for us. Also everything seemed to come just off the bottom. Sunlight must of drove them down.

Originally Posted by crappiemax

Hey Wiskers,
I ran into a friend of yours (at least he said he was) over at Hillman Ferry. He's an older guy (but I guess we all are) said he was a retired truck driver. He said he spends about 6 weeks or so in both the spring and fall each year there. We'd see him at the cleaning table most evenings. I never did get cross the lake this trip.

Older guy with white hair & a red Ranger? Sure it wasn't a retired fireman. I think my ol'buddy Merrit is over there right now.

Nope, this guy had a center console...aluminum something or another. He said his wife really liked to fish for redears.
I didn't see him our last day there (Saturday). I was going to ask his name. I figured if I asked him too early on, I'd just forget it anyway.
I did see a red Ranger. I didn't see the guy who owned it.

Looks like fishing will be tough there for a while yet. Looks like a lot of rain and storms today according to weatherman. Should be a good spawn this year with all that water and wind keeping fisherman off the lake.