Cumberland Lake

[QUOTE=mbk;3211296]Thanks for posting this crappiemax.

I have been mulling the idea of a trip to Cumberland myself. I live in Florence, KY so I'm already closer than most from Greater Cincinnati. I was looking at a trip to Lee's Ford Marina as it seemed nice and pretty close to I-75. QOUTE]

MBK
I don't think you can go wrong anywhere down there. We drove over a part of Fishing Creek and it was choked full of that cover like in the pic I posted. I imagine it's everywhere in any water 30' or less. We drove around a little (since I told my partner to make a wrong turn) and it's literally everywhere.
Starting in Florence you would be down there in less than 3 hours so it's a very do-able trip for a few days. I was wondering what it would be like in winter when everything up here was frozen.
Don't let those pics fool ya in those coves, that water is all pretty deep and it's clear. Of course anyone familiar with C-land knows that lake is deep and there is only a very small percentage of shallow water. There's way more water over 100' deep than under 100' deep.
I'm sure if you made the trip you would have fun.

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Originally Posted by kycreek

Looks like a good trip. Wondered how you guys did. I'd like to get down there myself someday.

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You only have a few more years and you'll be able to do this for a living too.:fish

Max,My buddy was at Cumberland this past weekend ,He said the cold front must have turned everything off as no one was catching anything.He caught 1/2 dozen bluegills and that was it for the weekend .He was fishing towards the dam end ,water temp was upper 60s , 70 in coves .

Anybody know of a guide service on Cumberland? It would be worth it to me to get to know the lake before I go out blindly hoping to catch fish on a foreign lake I haven't a clue about. Don't care if we catch a bunch of fish with them. Just want to learn the lake and what to look for. That way I'd be able to bring my boat next tIme and know what I'm doing.

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Originally Posted by chaunc

Anybody know of a guide service on Cumberland? It would be worth it to me to get to know the lake before I go out blindly hoping to catch fish on a foreign lake I haven't a clue about. Don't care if we catch a bunch of fish with them. Just want to learn the lake and what to look for. That way I'd be able to bring my boat next tIme and know what I'm doing.

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Brother Chaunc ... I don't believe there are any "specific" Crappie guides on Lake Cumberland. There may be some "Striper" guides that accommodate such outings, but I'm not sure.

Now that its dam has been repaired & the water level has been allowed to come back up 40ft to "normal" Summer Pool levels, after 7yrs .... it's almost a "new" lake. And considering that's 1255 miles of shoreline, 50,000 acres of water surface, 101 mile long "main lake", and avg depth of 90ft .... there's a lot of places for Crappie to hide. :Doh:

Google Earth, or even Google Maps will show you a lot about the lake. And you may even get some help from the KY forum guys, though many of them may try and convince you to fish Green River Lake, rather than Cumberland :Rofl (and yes, we do have a member that's a Crappie guide on Green ... see the Guide Listing sticky on the KY forum for info)

I don't know of any.
When we went we had no idea of what we were doing. Those southern lakes are just so big compared to the lakes around SW Ohio. We took a simple approach, we didn't look at the whole lake, we just tried to learn a little bit about the area we were fishing. On two separate occasions we just rode around looking at some of the area to try to get familiar with where we were and see what options we had. Because of depth you could eliminate a lot of the water pretty quick.
My HDS units have Lake Insight and we used it for our mapping which worked out okay. IMO it's adequate and nothing special but it kept us on tract.
If you can't find a guide and decide to go on your own I can give you a pretty detailed account of what we did. You are a pretty good fisherman and I think you could find a few...
I will say I don't think C-land is easy but I do think it can be rewarding if you can unlock some of it's secrets.
If I can help in any way...let me know.

I just feel more comfortable having guide show me around. It eliminates so much guess work and saves quite a bit of time. Even if it's only a half day trip, it's worth it to me. John, thanks for offer to help. Much appreciated.