Sry this is kinda off the crappie subject but has anyone caught any of the walleye that was stocked above barren river lake yet. I was wondering what the average size of the fish were now
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Sry this is kinda off the crappie subject but has anyone caught any of the walleye that was stocked above barren river lake yet. I was wondering what the average size of the fish were now
I've tried. But come up empty everytime I have tried it. Granted I am not a walleye fishermen but figured if I threw a curly tail grub long enough I would luck into one.
I've been in the fall and tried in the spring with no luck. I went from 100 up about 5 miles and no luck.
We have only gotten one about 5 mile above browns ford it was 14in. Talked to a guy yesterday that was caught 10 or 12 about that size and said they all came above the acresville bridge close to tville.
I fish alot on Barren for crappie and I spider rig so I usually have a dozen or so minnows in the water when on the lake. I have fished just north of Browns Ford where the power lines cross the lake at the end of the ski zone and from there clear up to the dam and have yet to see my first walleye. I have a friend who is an agent for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Game who runs the test nets on Barren and he has told me they do see them in their nets in the areas that I fish but why I can't find a single one is beyond me. I work at Lowes and regularly get people telling me where the fish are biting and right now i'm hearing reports of sauger and walleye being caught, in good numbers, below lock 5 from boats. Once the Green River settles down I may try to venture a shot up there.
Mostly when I fish for walleye it would be within a couple feet of bottom. My method of choice is the slip sinker rig dragging it almost vertical with my bail open and my finger holding the line so when I feel that slight tick I let the line go and give the walleye 3 to 10 seconds before setting the hook. My next method is vertical fishing a jig tipped with minnows or half crawler depending on the time of year.Quote:
Originally Posted by slabseeker1
Another personal favorite method if the water is slow enough I use a slip bobber rig.
All very close to bottom !
Without exaggeration I have caught at least 15,000 walleye in my life. Many years of fishing trips in Canada and Spring Walleye on Rivers in Wisconsin.
Most of them very near the bottom.
I grew up fishing Lake Erie and have made a few trips to Canada myself. It just seems odd to me that since 1990 i've fished Barren River Lake an average of 3 times a month and when I spider rig those minnows are two to four feet from the bottom as I move up and down the channel. As my Dad always said, even a blind sow gets an acorn once in a while. Except for this time. I've caught walleye spider rigging for crappie at Nolin and I don't fish Nolin that often. This spring i'm going to set aside some days to fish solely for walleye and see if they are catchable. Biggerbear, do you fish for walleye on Barren? And if you do, average size, how many per trip? What area of the lake? Thinking maybe another trip to Canada this year to Bear Lake Wilderness Camp. If your interested Shout at me. Its a boat in area and the fishing is fabulous. www.blwc.com
My boys and I went this past year and they had such a great time they posted a video on youtube, take a look.
Better yet,tell me what ya think. Canada - YouTube
I have never fished Barren River Lake - Sorry I should have said that !Quote:
Originally Posted by slabseeker1
Thanks for the offer about Canada but I am unable to travel much anymore because of health reasons - Arthritis
I loved camping on the English River near Kenora, Ca
Since relocating to Kentucky from Wisconsin I only fish for panfish and can only fish a few hours at a time. I fish Woods Creek and Linville since they are close to my house.
I did get a surprise 17.5" walleye on woods creek last July while fishing for Bluegills.
That’s the only walleye I caught last year.
I'll bet that walleye put a smile on your face.....wish I could have seen it!:biggrin
U guys think that there is just not enough walleye in the lake yet. I think they just started stocking in 2007. And I've read it's a different strain native strain. What is stocked at Nolin and other lakes r the Erie strain aka lake strain. Could it be that these fish are staying up in the river. Like I said earily we did manage one on a rooster tail about 5 to 6 miles above browns ford . I have also read that the fish that were stocked were put in above the lake. The lake extends to the holland bridge that's close to 10 miles above browns ford. Any one ever catch walleye in rivers. I'm gonna try up there this spring. We're should I look for them at?
gone_fishing I tried to reply to your PM but for some reason I can't so I will add that information in this Thread.
Yes I use the egg type slip sinker with a swivel and the attach about 3 feet of line below that. I prefer the egg sinker to the lindy type.
My line size is always 6lb good quality brands like Stren or Trilene. I only use Ugly Sticks with Spinning Reels.
The slip sinker rig works anytime of year on open water. In winter minnows are the bait of choice and in summer a night crawler works best(Thread the crawler on the hook and even over the eye so it lays straight). I mostly use plain hooks but in dark water I use colored floating jigs(If using a floating jig only add half of a crawler).
Leeches work great in the summer in Canada and Wisconsin but I am not sure if they use Leeches in Kentucky !
You can drift or troll these keeping bottom contact and if you feel a hit release the line and let the walleye have it for 3 to 10 seconds then reel in the slack and set the hook. I keep the line almost vertical with me bail open and my finger holding the line ready to release at anything feeling like a hit.
Depending on water depth and current a 3/8oz to 1/2oz egg sinker will be fine with 6lb line. With heavier line you may need heavier sinkers.
Another great way to fish this is with a smaller sinker and cast it - can’t really do this where there are allot of snags though.
Almost vertical is just about always the best method because you can pop the sinker out of potential snags - hopefully !
The preferred method of fishing for sauger and walleyes here on the Cumberland river system is (the most common, but not the only method) using a hair jig with either a minnow or plastic trailer. Using whatever weight it takes to maintain contact with the bottom, (in heavy flows that can be anywhere up to a 2 oz jig) lift the jig off bottom 6-12 inches, then lower it back to the bottom. Repeat.....a jillion times. I have better luck with a lift up, and slow descent, touch bottom, lift up and hold three to four inches for a count of ten, then repeat. Some days we'll catch a limit of ten or twenty. Other days we'll be lucky to catch dinner. It can definitely be a tough sport, fishing for walleye and sauger. Sauger will normally be in heavier flows and deeper than walleyes. Sauger will definitely hug the bottom. If you are a foot off bottom, you're not too likely to get bit by saugers. There you'll catch your white bass, bluegills and spotted bass. Walleyes will typically hold shallower than sauger.
I was fishing a dropoff into the river in a creek mouth last week and I had caught a couple of sauger in 34 ft of water. While fishing down the dropoff in about 20 ft, I hooked into a nice 6.04 lb walleye( the one pictured). Attachment 113550 It seems they were holding on the edge of the drop jut out of the current whereas the sauger were holding dead on the bottom at the edge of the dropoff. Fishing around creek mouths seems to be a good place to start looking. In February they'll move into shallower water to spawn, then they'll go into a two week recuperative funk and they'll be hard to catch.
Good luck in your search!
Yeah I think they were stocked way up the river. 100 and above. I'm sure some have made their way down into the lake, just as I bet some run on up the river as fish tend to do when spawning.
I used to have the press release saved in my favorites but have lost it.
I'm gonna call fish and wildlife today to see if they can give any insite on the size and location of these fish. Ill repost what I find out
Just got off the phone with the biologist that's over the barren river area. There r walleye in the lower end of the lake in very small numbers some have been as large as 24 to 25 in. Most fish remain in the river with a very scattered pattern. He said most were found in the lower 3/4 of a pool in the river. Couldn't tell me were they were stocked just above the lake. If anyone's happens to catch them please call fish and wildlife with length and location. If u have any fish that u keep they would also like the carcass. Some of the fish have micro chips in them. They think this year and next year will be the a tell tell year to see if the will reproduce well. Good luck
Its posts like this that give me that ole craving to chase them eyes again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jtmeador21
i would sure like to get in on them. ive never caught many but if were gonna have some close to home ill be after them. hollar to me some time if u find then maybe we could goQuote:
Originally Posted by slabseeker1
I catch most of my walleye in Green River at Locks 5 and 6, we catch them at Nolin in the spring too but it's sporadic at best catching a couple keepers from 20 up to about 25 inches a trip. I can usually find walleye with side imaging sitting on the tips of points that run out to the river channel, seems that's where they spend the daylight hours, then when it starts getting dusky dark they rise up and feed for a short period(that's when i catch them) then they just seem to disappear. on the river i use 1/8oz-1/2oz jigs (weight depending on speed of current)hopping them off the bottom by the locks on the edge of fast current and slack current tipping the jigs with curly tail grubs when there biting good or straight tail worms with a stinger when there nipping. there the same way on the river seems like they will shoot up and feed for a little while then they're gone
Bucktails are you in a boat at lock 5? I'd like to give it a try in the boat but i'm concerned about the depth of the water. If you fish around the lock how deep is the water? Do you go up to the lock and then throw back down stream?
The jigs u guys use are they just like heavier crappies jigs or what. Could I just use a bass jig with no skirt and tread a twister tail on it
Yeah, I have a 14'V-bottom that I use at Lock 6, I go all the way to within 50ft or so of the lock when it's safe enough and try to keep my jig right on the current seam where fast meets slack current the walleye and sauger will be right on that edge. I don't take a boat up to lock 5 at all, the boat ramp parking lot is notorious for people stealing, cutting off catylitic converters, batteries etc, lock 5 looks too dangerous in a boat, there is steel tangled up in the rocks at lock 5, always been afraid of punching a hole in my boat. But i've caught walleye on the bank there throwing rattle traps and jigs. At Lock 6 the water depth is 15-20ft (depending on river height) deep out from the locks, and has scattered boulders the walleye sit behind. I use regular round head lead jigs in black, orange, chartreuse, pink, with Kalins 5" grubs. I you get a bite with that and only have teeth marks on the tail you need to go to a straight worm with stinger hook. Another great place is Green Castle down in Richardsville, on Barren river good walleye, crappie, and muskie,
Thanks BiggerBear I am going to give this a try.
That ramp seems like it is always mudded up real bad too. I've never put in there but it looks like you wouldn't be able to take a very big boat upstream to the L&D on account of it being pretty shallow.Quote:
Originally Posted by probucktails
Last spring, My friend and I were standing at the riverview boat ramp muskie fishing while a guy backed in his 18' Nitro fish and ski, unloaded and took off up river wide open, an hour and a half later he came back loaded up and went on his way, said he didn't catch anything. I was suprised to see his boat back in one piece, he's got a whole lot more brass than I do lol plus he looked and talked like he'd been smokin on something a lot stronger than a marlboro lol
Thank you sir for this information. Ive been trying to get info on creek mouth fishing in my area. We are having some issues with our local dam not letting us near the good fishing so Ive been wanting to try the creek mouths for the sauger..... So you say fish right where the creek channel starts to come up onto the ledge????? and how far up in the creek mouth will you go to try this. I always just figured just right where the creek mouth and river meet up. Any info on that would be appreciated.Quote:
Originally Posted by dncncwboy61
How about when the river comes up and is rippin???? fish just up into creek where there is no current????