After chasing an unwanted visitor in our bed most of Friday and Saturday nights, I finally killed a large fiddler spider and got a minimal amount of sleep. I will catch a cottonmouth snake and move it away from my shop but I am about 90% phobic of a fiddler spider, especially one in my house. My bed makes it a war! This one met it's maker and all of its buddies who may be taking up in my house are being zapped today by Raid Fumigator. Where was I? Oh yea. I got very little sleep and felt like crap when the alarm went off. The wind was already blowing harder than forecast and from a different direction. I decide to go anyway.
When I got to the ramp I could see 3 foot rollers and whitecaps on the main lake. That knocked out any chance of fishing the area I had planned to fish. I motored to a calmer area and set out my crankbait trolling gear. On my 1st 1/2 mile pass, I caught 5 good keepers. To say I was both shocked and tickled would be an understatement. It was so rough that I had to go with the wind then crank the big motor, run back to the start of the ledge, and go with the wind again. After a couple of hours I had 7 keepers with so many small green carp, drums(gaspergoos to Chaunc) and yellows I didn't try to keep up with them. Catfish must have put the word out about my custom painted crankbaits as I was getting hammered by them also.
I wore my welcome out on the first spot but by that time the wind was laying enough I decided to try the main lake. It was rough but doable. As the waves calmed down from the wind, they picked up from the lake lice who had slept in. It became a typical Sunday afternoon on KY Lake with pontoons, ski boats, bass boats and jet skis all seeing who could get the closest and annoy me the most.
Again, I could only fish in the direction the wind was blowing but found a bunch of crappie stacked up in a small area and I ended up finishing out my limit on those. I caught almost as many blacks as whites and this is very unusual for pulling cranks. I caught fish on Bandits, Rebels, and C55 models of the Chinese cranks. My best colors were some I had custom painted in mostly dark colors. This was also the 1st trip in a long time that I didn't lose a single crank. That's always a good thing. It was far too rough to use the planer boards.
It looks like the weather is going to be iffy at best over the next few days. We also have a full moon on the 13th so I may chase some more gills and redears for the freezer if it is fit to get out.
This bait is solid black with multi-color glitter.
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Pink, black and green. All my favorite KY Lake colors on one bait.
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I did find out that my livewell is far too small to keep a mess of fish that includes several catfish up to 10 pounds
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This is before the fish were covered in ice to be cleaned this morning. This cooler is one of the 150 quart models.
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