Thread: Blood River on KY Lake

I went Friday also, ended up with 8 at Blood River, but 6 of those were in the boat by 7am. They were real tough for me after that. Be off for a couple weeks after Thursday morning, I hope the weather/water settles out for my time off.

Me and ole Fishtale ended up with 7 on Saturday and 5 from Friday evening. It was tough.

Got back from Blood today. We caught 19 keepers yesterday. Caught all males except one. They were caught in 3 to 5 FOW just off the bank. Hope this helps. Pics will be in a new post soon.

Originally Posted by klight1122

Got back from Blood today. We caught 19 keepers yesterday. Caught all males except one. They were caught in 3 to 5 FOW just off the bank. Hope this helps. Pics will be in a new post soon.

Good deal....maybe the females will pile in there soon.

I was at Blood April 19-22 and it was tough. front came through Sunday and put an end to catching fish in shallow water. water dropped to less than 60 degrees. sunday evening we caught a few shallow casting and in the stake beds. From monday morning until wednesday afternoon, we caught them in brush 15' deep on humps and ledges, and only a few casting jigs or drowning minnows shallow or deep. The water is about 1 foot high. The highest water temp I saw was 62 leaving wednesday afternoon. The wind was fierce. Early in the trip we caught all females and they were spawning or not far from it, the egg sacs were running eggs. At the end of the trip we were catching males, from the same places. I dunno. It seems like nobody else knew what was going on either and not catching much. The fish cleaning station was a lonely place. The other thing that caught the attention of this fish biologist is that there is a STRONG year class of crappies in the 9.5 to 9.75" size range. These are next year's keepers you know. But there appears to be hardly any between that size and hawgs 12" and up. This jives with what the KY biologists said, that there was bad spawns a few years and that is why they dropped the limit. Now, these are general observations and don't take into account the two different species so nobody hang me... I think we caught plenty of fish but the fishing is rated "poor" by most standards if we have to let go 3/4 of the fish we catch. If we catch the same number next spring, and they are all keepers, it would have been a fine trip! Keep that in mind. All that said, with the weather predicted, the water temp should warm up and I think they will swarm the banks this weekend. While I'm not there. That is also the key, the fishing is better in the two days prior to my getting there and any other day I'm not there.

Joe