Thread: Thinking About Trying Pisgah Bay

Originally Posted by billyfromcaneyville

I've fished Pisgah a little in the summer for catfish but I'm wondering how it is for crappie this time of year. Does anybody on here fish it that much? I was mainly just wondering if there are many brush piles there. I've always struggled trying to find Ky. lake crappie and usually fish Crooked Creek on Barkley but have never had much luck there either so I'm wanting to branch out a little so to speak! It's a little over a 100 mile drive one way for me and fish less trips make for a sad drive home

It's been a few years, but the last time I fished KY Lake ... I fished Pisgah Bay. The lake was flooded, clear up into the campgrounds ... but, we caught a few Slabs out of there, nonetheless ... so they do come into that bay to spawn. We caught one right in front of one of the flooded concrete picnic tables, and some on the brushpile that sits in the mouth of the bay. We also went around the corner to the rock quarry bay (to your right as you come out of Pisgah) and caught some along the rock walls (mostly on the wall that's on your left, as you come into the rock quarry bay).
If all else fails, and Pisgah isn't producing ... I'd run straight across the lake to The Moors There's several creeks running into that bay, that you could try. I've never fished over there, so I don't have any firsthand info to give ... but, it is the biggest and closest bay to Pisgah, so it can be reached quickly enough to warrant trying it.

My KY Lake map is copyright 1973 ... and shows stumpfields and roadbeds in Pisgah. One of the more interesting features it shows about Pisgah Bay, is that the roadbed, creek channel, and a line of stumps ... all run alongside each other, from right in front of the launch ramp, and around to the right creek pocket of the bay. If they haven't already come and gone, and the water level is at pool, that should be a migration route to the shallower water at the backend of that pocket. It could also serve as a place for them to fall back to, if the temps drop or the water level drops. It should also serve as a migration route for those that have already spawned, to follow back out to the deeper water. In either case, it looks interesting enough to give it a shot.

Hopefully, you won't have to go on my info alone ... and someone else, with more/better info, will reply. :p

... luck2ya ... and give us a report, if/when you go !!

... cp

Pisgah is a good bay. Has both deep water and flats in the back. Have caught some good fish there in the past. Not too bad Redear either.
Good Luck.

Fished Pisqah Bay Saturday with absolutely no luck on crappie. If you enjoy Skipjack and small 12" bass then thats the place to be. But I did not go back far. Now on the flip side of that. If you'll cross the lake into Bear Creek that's a different story. Look on map of the lake. In that creek where it says Barge Island Recreation area. That point right there, come off of it about 20 to 30 yards to 10 to 12 feet of water. Your depth finder will show lots of structure. Today the black crappie were holding right there. Caught several nice ones and a bushel basket full of 9 to 9.5". Had a blast though.

Pisgah is a tuff bay to fish. Because Hillman's Ferry Campround is right there it gets pounded. You will rarely find a spot in this bay, this time of year that has not had a hook lobbed into it so most of the time you're fish'n used water. I do well in Pisgah in the winter months, but boat traffic & fishing pressure increases as the weather gets better and the campground opens up.

There is an old road bed that has some brush on it and most of the points has a pile or 2. There are several deep piles but they won't do you much good this time of year. I have only caught a limit in this bay this time of year a handfull of times. I'd cross the lake or run up to Smith, Duncan or Sugar.

BTW. My sister carries the mail & lives in Caneyville.

Thanks for all the help everybody. I don't really know where to try next but it may be Sugar , Smith, or Demumbers on Barkley. I would like to find a place that doesn't receive a lot of pressure but I'd have to say it's going to be tough to find that this time of year! I fish out of a 14' tri-hull with a 35 hp motor so I really don't like to get out on the main lake to much, running from spot to spot. Wiskers, small world isn't it. Your sister probably delivers my mail!