Thread: Need Some Help

McNealy, Guist Creek, Hardy, Patoka are good and not far also Green River is good.

OK, let me clarify. I usually fish for crappie and do so at Nolinn, Green, Patoka and tribs of the Ohio. But with my grandson and his short attention span, I'm thinking bluegills would be a better bet. So I need to know where would be the best place to go with him, in the boat, for gills and what bait is recommended. Thanks for the help.

If I were fishing for gills only I'd get some wax worms or red worms and go to Guist Creek. From the boat launch, there's a $5 fee, go to the left to the second cove on the left and look around up in there.

Originally Posted by wannabe fisherman

if i were fishing for gills only i'd get some wax worms or red worms and go to guist creek. From the boat launch, there's a $5 fee, go to the left to the second cove on the left and look around up in there.

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Originally Posted by crappiepastor

OK, let me clarify. I usually fish for crappie and do so at Nolinn, Green, Patoka and tribs of the Ohio. But with my grandson and his short attention span, I'm thinking bluegills would be a better bet. So I need to know where would be the best place to go with him, in the boat, for gills and what bait is recommended. Thanks for the help.

I guess I have a short attention span since I fish Bluegills mostly !!!

Pastor ... you might also consider going to Cedar Creek Lake. Take some nightcrawlers, crickets, or red worms for Bluegill & Shellcracker (minnows for Crappie) ... fish in the 5-15 fow range. The Full Moon is in the middle of that week, so you may find the gills/crackers bedding. Crappie will likely be deep, and down in the standing timber.

Normally, when I fish there for Bluegill/Shellcracker ... I just put a section of nightcrawler, big enough to cover the hook, on a 1/16oz jighead & drift, keeping the bait just off the bottom (~6"-1').

Taylorsville Lake is another possibility .... and if you don't find the Bluegill beds, there, just tie on a couple of white or chartreuse 1/16oz jigs and slow troll in the 12-20ft depth range. You're likely to run into a school of White Bass or Hybrids, of varying sizes, especially if there's a lot of schooling Shad on the surface (& not a whole lot of boat traffic).

There's no launch fee for either lake !! Cedar Creek does have a website that puts out a fishing report : » Cedar Creek Lake Fishing Report ... but, I don't know of any that covers Taylorsville.
If you just want to keep him snatchin' & jerkin' at gills .... pretty much any lake would probably provide the potential. Depending on his age & experience level, I'd be of a mind that "I" wasn't going to be doing much fishing, myself ... and just be the hook baiter & hook remover. Rofl

Even Herrington Lake would be a possible place to try .... worms or crickets down against the rock cliff walls could get you some decent sized gills, and possibly even a catfish or two. I'd stay in the no wake area of Chimney Rock & Kamp Kennedy. The biggest factor against choosing Herrington is the $10 launch fee !!

... cp