Kentucky Lake crappie

[kyfishman]

Fished the north end of KY Lake around the Eggner Ferry bridge Friday. Got a late start, 10:00am and fished till about 4:00pm. Caught 42 crappie, but many were under 10 inches. But did manage 16 really nice ones. All black but one. Tightlining minnows 16-22 ft deep in 17 to 25 FOW. Also caught several white bass, 6 largemouth bass from 2 to 4 lbs, and a number of frisky yellow bass, and two drum which kept the action pretty steady. Fish of all descriptions are really biting right now on Ky Lake,....including the crappie.

[Bronson]

Thanks for the report, hope to get out there as soon as all this boat traffic dies down.

[gabowman]

Sounds like a great day kyfishman. Congrats.

[M R Dux]

Were you out today? I was trolling Bandits near a guy who was dunking minnows this AM north of the bridge. I caught one crappie about 1 1/2 pounds within 40 yards of him then one bigger a hundred or so yards farther down the drop. He was working the inside of a point on the secondary channel and I was running the main drop. He asked me if I was using cranks while we were still within talking distance. He said he just had a couple of dinks then left after I got farther away.

I ended up with 7 nice keepers, 2 2-3 pound bass, a 3 pound white cat, a ton of yellows, and an 8 or so pound drum. Try that on a 16 foot Capps and Coleman with 100 feet of line out!

I left after a couple of hours and about 1000 boats going by. I had to remind myself why I hate the lake on weekends---- holidays are even worse.

[kyfishman]

No that was not me, mrdux. I caught my crappie on Friday and there was not a lot of boat traffic. But....I went back about 4:00pm yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, just to kill some time, enjoy the lake and watch the KenLake fireworks. I ended up using a jigging spoon in the mouths of some of the small bays and caught the heck out of largemouth bass. Not monsters, but from 2 to 4 lbs. I had a blast. This time of year, a jigging spoon is one of the best ( and most overlooked) ways to catch all kinds of fish, from crappie to catfish and everything in between. I found the bass in 16 to 18 ft of water chasing large schools of minnows and really hammered them. Several times, as I was reeling one in, I'd see two or three other fish following it. By the way, I was surprised by what I thought was light boat traffic yesterday afternoon. If you want to see boat traffic, get over on Barkley down around the Kuttawa/Buzzard Rock area. I was there last Saturday and had to quit fishing because of all the boats. I can only imagine what it was like there yesterday.

[Kentucky Lake]

Sounds good.

[mwhbluecat]

yes boat traffic, I guess the only thing good about this shift work is fishing during the week, early, before the sun and the traffic gets started