Catfishing the big lakes.

[chrispbrown27]

Anyone doing any good?

[M R Dux]

Zero current means it will be tough.

I was out with a party a couple of weeks ago and there was a commercial fisherman running trotlines close to us. It looked like 2/3 of the cats he caught were dead, even on top of the drops where there should be plenty of oxygen. They can't commercially sell dead fish to some markets so he was chunking every dead one over the side. There was a floating line of dead fish behind his boat.

[BobB]

Wow ..... sure hate to hear of that happening ..... Maybe he waited too long to run his lines. Catfish are pretty tough fish.

In all the years we ran bank poles on our local river, I don't think we ever had a dead catfish on the line.....of course we ran the lines every few hours.

[BIGBADDAD]

Just pull cranks on a ledge...you'll catch some even if you don't want too!! Actually , have caught some on a catfish trip in 35 to 50 feet on a double rig with crawlers.

[chrispbrown27]

I haven't fish all that much but I have ran jugs a couple of times and so far I have caught one small channel. I had one significant hit on a rod I had out while I let the jugs drift, but it was only a hit and run. I have thought about running trot lines on Clark's river but haven't gotten around to it. I used to fish a river about that size up in Illinois and filled the freezer every time I ran them.

[jdrowl67]

I went down below Barkley Sunday, It was slow there too. I hear they're catching good numbers and big cats below Smithland.

[M R Dux]

I went down below Barkley Sunday, It was slow there too. I hear they're catching good numbers and big cats below Smithland.

They were until the water came up. All the West Virginia water will be headed down the Ohio.

[smashdn]

River jumped 7-8 foot at newburgh this past week. It is a mess.

Every 5-7 days we will get a pop-up thunderstorm here and it will muddy the creeks and cause flash flooding. 3/4 of our water runs into barren then green. 1/4 runs into the cumberland eventually.

I have to think that the green is up somewhat as well.

Is TVA holding back KY and Barkley some due to the Ohio?

[M R Dux]

River jumped 7-8 foot at newburgh this past week. It is a mess.

Every 5-7 days we will get a pop-up thunderstorm here and it will muddy the creeks and cause flash flooding. 3/4 of our water runs into barren then green. 1/4 runs into the cumberland eventually.

I have to think that the green is up somewhat as well.

Is TVA holding back KY and Barkley some due to the Ohio?

Ky is up 0.2 but predicted outflow is less than inflow for next 3 days. Outflow is only going to be 18,135. They normally start dropping the lakes right at July 4th. We'll see.

[smashdn]

Checked the USGS water watch site and Green is steady most gauges. Ohio is dropping around henderson. Didn't check Smithland though.

I am going to get out somewhere for blues just undecided where at this point. Probably not Ky or Barkley though with no current.