This is about Bluegill but I figure it will get more exposure here and someone can answer this question. My son and I go to Center Hill each Spring in April and May and fish for big Bluegill from the bank at Edgar Evins. Since they have been working on the dam they keep the lake at 630. Last year when the flood came in May if we took a canoe up and fished in water where we would normally be casting to when the lake was at 630 we caught Bluegill by the hundreds. Since the rains came in April and the lake is just now getting down it is the same thing. With the water level down to 639 you can cast from the bank where we would normally be standing with the lake at 630. You get in a canoe and paddle out to where you could cast with the lake at 630 and you catch Bluegill. Center Hill was high for a whole month last spring and those fish never moved up on that whole bank we fish....which is about a mile long. This year the lake was high much longer and they still have not moved up and will not. By the time the lake gets down to 630...which if we get no more rain will be in about 10 days....the water will be hot enough to drive the Bluegill deep in that location. Does anyone know why those fish will not move in closer to the bank when the lake rises that high and stays that way for a while? When the lake is at 630 we catch those fish only about 20 feet from the bank.


Regards