Fishing reports for the Big Sandy River on Kentucky Lake
It's been a long time since I have posted fishing reports on crappie.com. I got busy several years ago and just kind of quit posting them. Any way, I was talking to Ed. aka "Slab" the other day and we talked about posting them again. I have been doing a two minute fishing report for a local radio station that is played every weekend for the past 6 or 7 years, and thought I would start posting those reports on here. If it helps one person catch more fish, then it is worth doing. So, here it goes. This is the report that has been airing this past weekend.
Hi folks. Welcome to Richard Williams Outdoors.
The water levels here on Kentucky Lake came way up to a little over 360 and is supposed to go up to 361.3 or higher by the end of the weekend. The areas south of us must have gotten a lot of rain. Because the dam at PickWick has been spilling a lot more water than the Kentucky dam. The surface temperatures are still running in the low to the mid 80’s.
The crappie fishing has really been pretty good this week. I have gone out a couple days this week early in the mornings and fishing until around 9:00. By then, it gets way too hot to stay out there. And with the humidity being as high as it has been, it feels hotter than it really is.
We have been catching fish on short drops in 12 to 13 feet of water with the baits around 11 feet deep, fishing around structure. Most of the fish that we have caught, have come from the sides and the tops of the structure. The best baits for us this week have been the southern pro baby bass minnow tubes tipped with crappie nibbles. And black, chartreuse, and green rainbow jigs tipped with crappie nibbles.
I have talked with several folks that are fishing straight minnows and putting them right in the middle of the beds in 12 to 14 feet of water.
Bass fishing has been real good this week out on the drops and ledges in the Tennessee River. TVA has been dumping 150 to 200 thousand cubic feet per second out of the dam. And that has put a lot of current in the river systems. Usually when there is a lot of current in the river, the bass will hit pretty good.
Catfish have also been pretty active this week. Some big blues have been caught in the deeper holes out on the Tennessee River. And several channel cats have been showing up on the deeper drops out on the main lake.
There have been quite a few water accidents this week in several areas of the state. No matter what body of water you are on, there are hazards everywhere. If you do get out on a lake or river, just be careful out there folks. And keep a life jacket handy just incase you need it.
Well that’s all the time we have for this week.
See-ya on the water folks.
Thanks for listening.
