Went to Patoka today, and water looked awesome all the way to Kings Bridge. Beautiful blue green as high as it was. 7.5 ft. and still rising. Long lined for a while,,switched to bandits,,picking up dinks here and there thru the timber very scattered and finally hit a nice school, latching on to a 14 incher then a 12, and a couple of 10's in the same spot on jigs with nibbles injected and then a wall of rain nailed me and drowned me out for the rest of the day. I mean it rain hard too. putting the boat on the trailer and driving from Walls,,,was the only boat to launch there again. The small dock is of no use there in high water so watch for rocks and concrete when you beach your boat plus the 2 pipes holding dock as they are just under the water. Drove to Osborne ramp in the rain,,,docks are up still,,but the walkways to them are under a foot of water or more so usless unless you want to wade kneed deep to tie up..you can still maybe launch 2 boats at a time there in this high water. Drove by Jackson ramp and it looked good to go and so did its dock setup. I was surprised that I didn't find muddy water anywhere and will go back later this week or maybe first of next depending on the weather as tired of getting rained on everywhere I fish. Have a safe 4th.
