Thread: great news lake cumberland

In the long run it will help fishing with better survival of spawns. More cover for fish. And any lake you fish has logs in the spring when the water comes up. More shoreline equals more places to fish.

The army will raise it dispite what anybody says, that is for sure. And the new growth will definately add more structure/cover to the lake. I'd say it will be the most cover that lake has had since it was made . In time, the fishing should be better as well. Slabeye gets tongue tied sometimes. All he was saying is since the waters been down for so long it has taken the crappie fishing this long to be very good because they have to adapt. Get into a seasonal pattern and the long hours a fisherman spent locating and learning the lake. When it does come up, well its almost going to be a new lake. You'll have to start all over again as well as the crappie having to adapt again. He just wishes is stays like it is. I TOLD YOU SLABEYE, you can't just fish Cumberland. Like he said, it may be 2-4 years before the fishing is as it is now. Its always been good for slabs but its just better now.

ps. Kycreekboy.......you are always welcome to come down and fish with some of us yahoos.

I might just take you up on that some day. Looking for something different in the future.

This is what our local paper reported. This sounds good anyway.

This year, they will stock 150,000 more walleyes and 150,000 more striped bass than normal, the state said. Altogether, they will add 1 million walleye and striped bass to the lake this year, giving a boost to fishing.

Read more: The Paducah Sun - Corps plans to raise Lake Cumberland

I haven't fished C-land for many a year, now ... that's true.

I wasn't sure if the "trees" being talked about were live ones, or all the dead ones lying on the bank. I looked at Google Earth, last update in 2011, and everywhere I looked at the banks ... it was ALL rock, and not much in the way of any "live trees", but some scattered bushes here & there. All the trees I saw were dead ones that had been left high & dry, just below the old (live) tree line.

Was y'alls tourney on May 5th ... that's when the lake hit 725. That was just bad luck on the timing of the tourney IMHO.

I was just curious as to how big a tree could grow in only a few years, on a rock bank .... that's why I questioned the "live" tree comments. I was actually thinking it was the dead trees that everyone was worried about, which is why I mentioned tying them down NOW ... before the level raise floats them off to the dam. If you're sneaky enough, your logjams/brushpiles won't even be discovered by the casual angler. I'd also mark those live bushes, for this Spring ... the fish only know a specific BANK that they spawn on !! If the brush they were used to isn't there (in the proper depth/temp), they'll just keep going until they find a suitable spot. My suggestion was to simply MAKE a spot, using the dead wood that litters most banks now ... not cut down anything (which I don't think is even legal to do).

I don't Striper fish, and don't care to .... but, that IS one of the major $$ draws to the lake. More water & more stocking will bring back more business & more marinas.

I use weedless jigs around wood ... so I ain't skeered !! It might be a problem for spider riggers, but I'm not into that method all that much, yet.

I think anglers will have to do more "adapting" than the fish will. And it may even be a good thing, if the trees that have grown up over the last few years are flooded. They'll die, and then you'll have standing timber to fish around !! At the very least, it will give the newbies somewhere to concentrate on ... and leave the submerged stuff for those more seasoned anglers, or those willing to make their own "piles".

... cp

Crappiepappy the upper end of the lake has some trees close to 30 ft. tall. Went down this morning and took a look and it is up into the trees at 695 ft. on the upper end.

It was May 7, 2011, on a Saturday. Probably shouldn't have called them trees. Most thinks trees are 20-30 ft tall. They are saplings, anywhere from 3" round up to 6" and stand anywhere from 3 ft to 16 ft. Alot of logs that float down the lake, if they make it past Beaver creek, the corps has been removing them from the water. They don't want a log jam coming down to the dam since it not finished. If any one is going to make "spots" with them, they better get them before they float to far down.

Originally Posted by kycreekboy

I might just take you up on that some day. Looking for something different in the future.

Anytime .