I think a good option would be to leave some areas such as the refuges and others closed to fishing until mid June to allow the fish in these areas to spawn out before being caught. Just my two cents.
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I think a good option would be to leave some areas such as the refuges and others closed to fishing until mid June to allow the fish in these areas to spawn out before being caught. Just my two cents.
I'm for keeping those areas closed...couldn't hurt. I haven't been fishing Big Sandy for all that long but the boat numbers are rising. Big Sandy is a great place to fish but it's still fishing and there are going to be days when you just can't get on em'. I have too many days like that but I have a few where it makes it all worth it.
Big Sandy is a good place for me to fish because it throwed most everything I've learned about fishing out the window. You have to learn to fish off shore structure and that's difficult to do when you never have experienced sitting out in the vastness and looking at a screen for directions. I enjoy learning new techniques but I'm ready to go shallow for some one on one action!
I'm just waiting for the water to stabilize and get up into the buckbrush. Got an area I want to try and wade fish this year. Be my first time for that. Can you say SNAKES! I don't like em'. LOL!
The Hound
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Originally Posted by chaunc
Been fishing KY lake all my life, but I've never caught a hog that big! Congrats on a heck of a fish!!!!
Got a stringer full of 2lber's that day. Fishing 27ft deep with spoons and shiners and tossing an eighth oz jig and tube. I'll add the picture later.Quote:
Originally Posted by caseydrew
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This will be a mess 30 in Tenn. and 20 in Ky. I guess the DNR people will have to check where you're licenses is from or maybe where you put in. Does anyone know which they'll use. Or will they check to see if you're across the state line.Quote:
Originally Posted by Biggerbear
maybe they'll just put a fence across the lake :D:D
Chaunc...how do fish those spoons. Do you tightline them with one pole in your hand? Do you add a minnow? That's interesting. That is one big fish you have there.
Congrats,
The Hound
I fished them tipped with a shiner minnow that day but when the water warms up over 60, i use a crappie nibble. I dead stick em. Use my Richard Williams rod in a holder tightline while i cast jigs and watch my locator.
I live around cincinnati, but wisker got me to thinkin ,over at brookville lake in Indiana they net these walleye every year , they milk the eggs out ,fertilize the eggs , in 9 days the eggs hatch they keep the fish until they become fingerlings and stock all the lakes in indiana with the fingerlings , If they would do that in ky lake , raiseing the lake would not be a problem , they could be sure that they had good spawns and hope fully things would improve in a few years . Just a thought .
We have a couple of small lakes in LBL (Honkers & Energy) that are just full of stunted Crappie. They should let some of us go in there and catch the small crappie and throw them into Ky & Barkley. I guarantee you can go to energy right now & catch 200 7" to 9" fish a day. Heck toss them over the levy. Problem is if you get checked and have them in the live well... BUSTED!