Last April, 3 of us KY Lake boys headed east to attend the Green River Spring Fling. We brought 2 boats. Adam (Dutch552) had fished Green. Rickie and I had never seen it. Some inside info we got on the lake said it wasn't the place to be pulling cranks in April. Being the hard-headed redneck that I am, I loaded my boat with nothing but crank gear (it was already being used down here) and decided to swing for the fences! All or nothing!!

Rickie and I started out reasonably shallow and found found some brush piles that gave up a few fish. Adam started out deeper and got on better fish. We all started concentrating even deeper around cover and started doing well. It was one here, 2 there but we were putting 10+ inch fish in the box. At the end of the afternoon we had a respectable catch in both boats with the largest being a 14 incher Adam caught. We had traveled quite a ways and seen lots of the beautiful scenery on the lake. Our best areas were close to where we launched.

The next morning we went right back to the area that produced best from the day before. We got on decent keepers right away. As the morning moved on, we had to move with the crappie and ended up catching them 15 feet deep in 40 feet of water. No cover and not a lot of bait. We had a hard time getting away from the channel catfish that were suspended right amongst the crappie. We tried a lot of different baits and colors. Funny thing is we were doing best on the same baits and colors we had been doing well on KY Lake on.

I think between the 2 boats and 3 fishermen on Friday afternoon and 4 on Saturday morning, we ended up cleaning over 100 keepers plus several channels. Since we have become accustomed to 10 inch size limits here, we just weren't interested in keeping very many fish below 10 inches.

We just took what we were comfortable with and applied it to a lake we had never seen.