Thanks doug for helping get the tire problem taken care of... got it fixed and i am home and the crappie were is biting when i left.
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Thanks doug for helping get the tire problem taken care of... got it fixed and i am home and the crappie were is biting when i left.
You're more than welcome,Rich.
The crappie are still biting if you can fight the wind and the party boaters who don't have a clue what those 4 foot roller waves to for a longline set up. 13 keepers Sunday with a couple of good ones. 20 keepers today with 30 mph winds and every ski boat north of the Mason-Dixon trying to run at 2/3 plane 30 yards from us.
Doug would help anybody.....even me! The boaters this weekend were as non courteous as I have ever seen!:hatchet: Donzis and Bajas 40 feet from your boat is just not right.All the time waving like you are their best friend.
It was the same a week ago saturday, the last day i fished Ky lake. Boats were coming within 25ft of me down in Ledbetter but i still managed to glide up a limit of crappies. And thanks for showing me those bluegill spots Doug. Brought a nice mess back to PA with me. Had a great trip but it was way too short. After 5 weeks, one aint gettin it anymore. See you guys next spring.
Lol ...............hey chaunc i seen you fishing on the lbl side...........i didn't know crappie where in 2 feet of waterQuote:
Originally Posted by chaunc
I fished for a couple of hrs today & had 9. Had to get off the water before I decided to start sling'n lead! My Lord there were some idiots out there today! Give me a Blue light & a box full of ticket books for 1 weekend and KY will have plenty of money in the bank. I'm gonna go out and take a video camera and let y'all see what we deal with here. :mad:
Rich, that was my bluegill hole. Did okay there one day. Not so good the next. You should have come over. Would have been nice to talk with you and share some info.Quote:
Originally Posted by kyrich
And there were crappies in 2ft up at the Bee Springs area. Back in the willows when the water was still up. Found them when i was looking for gill beds. Good size too.
Try running on Barkley with a twenty horsepower, wife and four year old!! My boat's a nice older Bass Tracker deep vhull which handled the lake GREAT but I was certainly outgunned with my little twenty and the bass boats will blow you out of the water. When we were there early in the month, there was whole trees floating down Barkley's main channel, not to mention hundreds of pieces of branches and firewood. These guys were running WOT down through there, I couldn't believe it because if they hit something in the water it's going to be a big problem. We were there the same time a bass angler was killed over on Ky Lake under that bridge.
Between the tournament anglers and pleasure boaters, it's a diehard fisherman's nightmare....BUT the fishing's worth the nightmare.
I couldn't afford to run down that far this weekend but I found a bunch of the same idiots @ Nolin Lake.(Maybe they are all related) Nearly got beat to death in my old Pro Crappie! I like the courtesy dock by the ramp at Wax but will prolly wait till the end of the world to go back there. At least at KY lake I could find some fish to catch between dodging traffic and the ensuing tidal waves they create
I was fishing Monday with the manager of Clarks River NWR. He had not had the pleasure of experiencing KY or Barkley with the boat traffic. He has now. We had a bright yellow cigarette boat come easing up into our longline lines, thinking he was going to be a nice guy and ask me for directions. I had to wave him to the side/front of my boat to keep him from ending up with 8 lines wrapped around his props. Guy spends probably close to 75 grand on a boat and is too cheap to buy a cheap gps unit to navigate his way around. I pointed him where he wanted to go and he took off at light speed across some of the shallowest parts of that particular bay. Guess he'll want me to tow him in when he ends up leaving an outdrive stuck on a stump.
And I thought I had forgotten how bad I disliked fishing on holiday weekends.
I wonder if those kids are still cleaning out their drawers after almost flipping their daddy's bass boat on Sunday? The morons on the lake just keep getting thicker and thicker.
Throw on top of that the evidently new rage with 20 somethings now is to buy a boat specifically built to create the biggest wake possible with a million gigawatt stereo for them to wake board behind. There was even one up there Sunday that made a big enough wake, they were pulling/riding a surf board on it. You throw several of those boats in close proximity to one another running back and forth, crisscrossing over to make their wakes even bigger within 100 yards of you and it will dang near sink your boat. Evidently not a single one of them has ever bothered to read the KY boating manual.
They should make them take an intelligence test to drive a boat. Parents have a place at the Moors. I sat on the patio and watched all kinds of idiots coming and going in Buckhorn. We fished from the pontoon all weekend. Wasn't brave enough to take the tracker out.
I am all for a law in KY that would require EVERYONE to have a boater's Licence. These people have nothing to lose if they get a ticket. They just pay the fine and go on about their business. I have a USCG pilot's licence and if I got ticketed for some of the things these people are doing I could lose my livelihood!
I didn't see 1 water Water Patrol boat all holiday weekend in this area. There are at least 5 good size campgrounds/Resorts within 3 miles of this bay, plus you have the Rock Quarry idiots to deal with.
Right now anybody with a little money can go out and buy or rent some kind of watercraft and not have to prove they have a clue how to safely operate it. And they wonder why people get killed on this lake...
I saw the KY water patrol about as far south as they could legally be Saturday afternoon. I had no idea why they were down there until I took my wife and daughter for a joy ride Sunday afternoon. TN's water patrol was out in force and handing out tickets like nobody's business. Oddly enough, the small bays off of the side of Cypress which are in KY were jam packed with party boat flotillas thumbing their noses at the TN patrol boat within eyesight. I guess that's why I saw the KY patrol headed that way Saturday afternoon.
The Marshall Co Sheriff's patrol boat was out on Monday. Saw him in Big Bear as we were headed back in.
I will say this, the jet-ski situation seems to be much better now than a few years ago. Maybe the novelty wore off or the age-limit for young kids helped Slow them down.