Thread: Just back from KY Lake

Those yellow bass are some good eating if you can get into some big enough to mess with cleaning.

I went out today and only had 3 crappie for the entire day. All of those came from 16' of water. I couldn't beat the banks for all of the little buck bass that are staged up getting ready for their spawn. After catching a dozen on jigs, I put the crappie stuff up and started bass fishing until I got burned out on catching the things. I don't know how many I caught. I was catching them every cast on some stretches of bank. I got bored with them and switch back to crappie but never caught another one even after going back to deep water. I was too busy taking yellow bass and bluegill off of the hook on the second go 'round.

I came up on some guys camped out on a main lake point that wore the fish out for about 15 minutes but they started and stopped like throwing a switch. Nobody else that I talked to today had much more luck than I did. Supposedly they turned on yesterday afternoon for the last couple of hours. Maybe they are on an afternoon bite now. They did that last year for about a week and a half stretch. You were wasting your time getting there before 3 in the afternoon.

I thought seriously about charging for taxi service before I left Wildcat today. They were having to park 1/4 mile down the road from the ramp parking lot and there was a steady stream of rigs rolling in when I left at 1:00.

Yes, yellow bass are great eating and yes I cleaned a ton of them.