Thread: kentucky lake.

Black crappie tend to stay shallower than white, and closer to the bank. Maybe that's why yall ain't catchin as many of em.

I just left a fish fry at Louisville Male High School where football coach Bobby Redman caught enough crappie this season to feed over 500 people. I talked to him a long time and he said the same thing, that people have not figured out the black crappie yet. He said while everyone else was out from the bank on the flats his was up tight on the bank catching black crappie till him arm was sore. Now this guy has fished the lake for years and has a great home on Barkley so he knows what he is talking about. He son is backup quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons and during training was coming home to Lake Barkley from Friday till late Sunday to help catch the fish. After breading fish for him for three hours straight today with two of my kids and four other people, I will be looking up in the shallows next year.