Anyone else seeing alot of baitfish in the bays?

[callen]

I have started seeing a lot of bait fish in the bays on the north end of Kentucky and Barkley. Anyone else seeing this?

[M R Dux]

Not just the bays. The main channel is full of bait-balls also.

[wmac62]

Not just the bays. The main channel is full of bait-balls also.

I have lived on Barkley a few years now, I can tell you I have never seen so many bait fish. I hope this is a good sign of a good quality spawn this spring since the water was fairly high through out the spring. Hope my prediction is right!!

[CrappiePappy]

Don't know about Ky/Barkley .... but, Taylorsville Lake sure enough has them. Was there this past Saturday, and Shad were EVERYWHERE !! I had 5-6 baitballs showing on the DF screen, many times during the day. Some so thick with Shad that the image was a solid white blob !! There seemed to be about 3 different sizes of them ... of the ones I saw, anyway ... ranging from the less than 2" to the 4-5" lengths.

What surprised me was that I never saw any Hybrid Striper "jumps" ... other than the occasional single. But, considering all the Shad we saw ... I guess they really don't have to herd the schools to the surface to feed on them (& probably why we didn't get any hits when we were trolling for them).

... cp

[M R Dux]

I'm really worried that not only the shad had good spawns, but the Asians also. The crappie and bass we have been catching trolling look like pre-spawn, bloated full of bait.

[rnvinc]

Is anyone seeing signs of the crappie eating the Asian Carp fry...(when cleaning crappie)...??

Rickie

[pab1981]

Rickie I'm pretty sure that a few I've cleaned this year have had carp in them. But I can't say for sure, identifying partially digested baitfish isn't my strong suit. Would be interesting to know if P Rister and company have done any research on this.

[rnvinc]

Rickie I'm pretty sure that a few I've cleaned this year have had carp in them. But I can't say for sure, identifying partially digested baitfish isn't my strong suit. Would be interesting to know if P Rister and company have done any research on this.

Paul will be at the North Ky Lake shindig at the end of September..

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/kentu...ead-count.html

We will pick his mind then...

Austin are you coming...??

Rickie

[Wiskers]

Rickie I'm pretty sure that a few I've cleaned this year have had carp in them. But I can't say for sure, identifying partially digested baitfish isn't my strong suit. Would be interesting to know if P Rister and company have done any research on this.

I hope they're eatn'um! Come to the Shindig an we'll ask Paul. I'm pretty sure he's gonna be there again this year.

[pab1981]

Paul will be at the North Ky Lake shindig at the end of September..

http://www.crappie.com/crappie/kentu...ead-count.html

We will pick his mind then...

Austin are you coming...??

Rickie

I'm not sure yet, I started a new job last week and am on days training right now but may be on shift by then and might be working.