Heading down tomorrow night and wondered what they are doing. Can either fish Blood River or Johnathan Creek area or even jump across to LBL side if needed. Wondered if spider rigging is still best right now. Thanks
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Heading down tomorrow night and wondered what they are doing. Can either fish Blood River or Johnathan Creek area or even jump across to LBL side if needed. Wondered if spider rigging is still best right now. Thanks
don't know about the fishing, BUT there's storms moving thru Sunday afternoon and evening.
At ky lake now......
Will start fishing Jonathan creek tomorrow.....
Look for a jon boat with a big black lab and say hi!
We'll compare notes.
Hey keep us posted. Be there the 4th.
LittleJohn
Sometimes it's a game of fishing where others ain't and finding fish.
And that's all I'm going to say about that.
My brother lives not far away from Jonathan creek. Some years ago I called him and ask if the fish were biting. He said " I don't know,but I just drove by there and I think I could of walked from one side to the other by stepping boat to boat and never got my feet wet".
fished in jonathan 2 wks ago. it wasnt good but they had like 6" of rain prior to that and nobody i talked with seemed to be doing well. i put in and headed under the bridge toward the main lake. bout halfway between the bridge and the mouth of the bay was a long flat and it was loaded with shad. i stayed in the shad and managed to catch a few dinks and one fish about 2lbs. shad were in 4-8 fow fishing right off the bottom in about 6fow was where all my bites came. hope this helps i know its not much
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Originally Posted by CRAPPIECON
Last couple days crops have started back up after all that rain,temps and water up and downs!!!
Slow today, spider rigging Jonathan.....
New at this,but managed a few...
Biggest went 15.5"
Hopefully today will be better.
When are you headed down?Quote:
Originally Posted by crappiemax
Just got back from a great afternoon with my bride. She had not been in the new boat. I think I scared her right off the bat. Bay was rough and I probably took off much faster than she would have liked. Fishing stinks!!!! Everybody I talked to today had similar feelings. 58 degree water and east wind. Vicki caught 2 that would have barely measured longlining roadrunners. I pushed cranks all afternoon and got skunked. No pics with the report. She said I had better not think of taking her picture with a 10 inch crappie.
Did talk to a longtime buddy who caught a 9 inch crappie that had a 7 inch lamprey attached to it. It was the 1st one he had ever seen here. I've only seen one but have seen scars on bluegills and crappie.
I don't remember the first year I pulled a crappie up and had a lamprey fall off of it,probably ten years ago or so....but I remember the feeling it gave me. Egads. Just made me sick to look at a nice fish with those sucker sores on em.
I fished Little Bear yesterday afternoon ended up with 1 keeper crappie 12 inches and one large bluegill. Several dinks along the way.
When are you staying there max or are you there now?
Had a largemouth last year crank baiting and a lamprey fell off of it in the boat....ugly looking buggers!
I'm headed down on Tuesday 4/5 and we'll be there until Sunday 4/10. I tried to get at least one other old guy to stay for at least a week but couldn't get anyone else to commit. This is the earliest in the year we have ever been there so I'm not too sure what to expect. Normally we go a week or 2 later. Around here (SW Ohio) we've been on fish all winter but this is a 2500 acre lake and easy check out everything. That lake is big and that 40 hp motor just seems smaller every year and it's harder to get check out everything I want to look at. I'm fairly confident we'll find some fish somewhere once we get down there. I was really sorry to hear you weren't going to make it this spring, hopefully conditions will improve for the fall.
At the end of April I plan on making a trip to Cumberland which I'm really looking forward too. I haven't been to C-land in probably over 35 years so I'm looking forward to some new water to fish. Ever since they drew the lake down for the dam repairs back a few years ago my friend and I both thought all the new cover that started to grow up on the newly exposed shorelines was going to make for some great fishing and the timeline was perfect for our retirement. This will be our 1st of hopefully many trips.
No matter what happens at C-land I will never give up on Kentucky Lake...I love it down there.
I'll be there next week. We'll be staying at Hillman Ferry again, we enjoy the campground and it has everything we need.(ice cream & warm showers) We normally fish outside of Pisgah Bay but if the weather is rough we can find somewhere to hide for a few hours in there or we can trailer to where we want to fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by liprippersc78
Didn't I see somewhere that you were fishing farther south this year? Did you settle on somewhere yet? We stayed at Cypress Bay resort a few years back on the Tenn line and we did pretty good down there.
Just got back home and back on here. Monday fished Johnathan and caught over 100 crappies spider rigging but only had 9 keepers. All were 13-15" that we kept rest of the fish we caught were between 6-9.5". Tuesday only caught 40 and had 6 keepers and this morning we fished two hours and caught 20 but 1 that barely kept but we ended up throwing it back since it was the only one. Had fun and learned a lot since we just spider rigging past year on our own. We have gone the whole time before and never got a bite.
Majority of the keepers we caught were in 5 ft but did pick up fish down in about 16 ft and everywhere in between. Was a little disappointed on how many keepers we got but then again catching around 175 fish in 3 days beats not catching any. Ready to go back down already.
I feel like that when I get home every year. Sounds like you guys had a good time. I hope we do good next week.Quote:
Originally Posted by KY Grant
That's why i started staying three weeks to a month down there. Good and tired when i get home.
Yea i thought about going farther south but ended up sticking with big bear resort again. We will be down and on the water thursday the 7th. I ran across your buddy last year crappiemax. Might have been in pisgah. Might run into you. Big blue and white center console starcraft. Cant miss it!
I would be in heaven if I were there for that long. I'd be exhausted and would have to take a day or 2 and just sleep the morning away. I'd be willing to make the sacrifice though.Quote:
Originally Posted by chaunc
I'd like to go down there sometime for the gills & redears. If I did that I'd probably take the little woman so I'd have to stay at Ken Lake SP since she likes their cabins.
That was Ken and Zane. I was with Ken at EF last week and I saw this big blue boat and asked him if it was you. He said no "he's got a big blue StarCraft"Quote:
Originally Posted by liprippersc78
Last year was a tough bite...I hope it's better this year.
I was at east fork on easter sunday. I agree hopefully fishing will be better this year! A guy i work withs friend is down there now and they are slaying them. But he doesnt know where abouts on the lake they are.