I live about 10 miles from Kentucky Lake and the lake does offer some great Bass, Crappie, Redear, Bluegill, and Catfishing opportunities.

The lake is full of mussels.

Fishing shell mounds and underwater ledges is key on the lake, if you want to catch big Bass, and Crappie this time of year.

But the big Redear are being caught all over Kentucky Lake and Barkely Lake right now.


Another key to Kentucky and Barkely lakes is size.

KY Lake is 160,000 acres of water, Barkely Lake is 57,000 acres of water.

Both lakes cover around 220,000 acres of water.