Thread: Cumberland

Well with 4 days of fishing & exploring a new lake we had a pretty good time. Even thought we had some unsettled weather and had to limit some of our fishing because of storms moving through we managed some nice fish. Getting to a new lake we had to spend more than the usual amount of time just looking around trying to get our bearings and just getting a feel for the place. We seemed to manage about a dozen or so nice crappies per day plus some bonus fish of gills bass & catfish. The last day was the best with 17 crappie and of those only 3 were under 12". My friend hooked something we never saw and we guessed it was either a catfish or a striper.

We were impressed by the size of the fish and this 15"+ white tipped the scales at 1.96#


My buddy caught this 14"+ black that tipped the scales at 1.8#


It seems the average size of the fish was around 13"-14" with very few really small fish



Mix in some nice gill which seemed to average 8"-9"


and a few green carp


and overall you have a pretty good time.
I think all the cover we fished seemed to mostly be Sycamore trees and they were surprisingly easy to fish. We used weedless jigs with brush guards made by Grousefly (on this site) and considering all the cover we only lost a few jigs. Most of the jigs lost were do to the line wrapping around stuff more than snagging it. Cover like this was everywhere.


To those who replied to this thread I want to thank you again for your help. We had a good time and caught some nice fish. We only kept 4 fish for a nice meal, everything else went back.