Heading down to Barkley for some bluegill and Shellcracker fishing. Has anyone been catching them yet? I am also concerned with the dip in temperatures this week. Do you think it will have a big impact on the bite? thx
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Heading down to Barkley for some bluegill and Shellcracker fishing. Has anyone been catching them yet? I am also concerned with the dip in temperatures this week. Do you think it will have a big impact on the bite? thx
Tried them Friday with no luck. water tempo was 67 degree was 72 3 days earlierQuote:
Originally Posted by Luvmyhobbies
IMHO ... you "may" be a couple of weeks too early :dono
I've always had better luck with them during the Full Moon in May (several days before & after), and this year the Full Moon is on the 21st.
Now, I've only specifically targeted them at Cedar Creek Lake (Ky), so I don't know if that translates equally to the big lakes (Ky/Barkley).
My son and I were also fishing for them Friday... no luck too early. Bought some minnows and caught some nice crappies.http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...5dac5b9e81.jpg
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I caught six crackers today on a short 2 hour trip. They were all males and colored up for spawning duties. They were not the really big crackers that I'm used to seeing but very good eating size.
These were caught in 3-4ft of water in the back of bays.
thx for the info. Any bluegill shallow as well? Coming down with my dad and son for 2 days. Only chance i will get due to little league.Quote:
Originally Posted by redearhoosier
I know the Little League thing well! I've been catching bluegill, a few redear and more catfish than I care to eat. The cats are REALLY clean and good eating down here. I think the redear are a few days off.
Water temp today (Sunday) at North Ky Lake was 72.4° in my Sonar class ...
Checked 2 separate bream beds teaching my student ... Not a spec one on SI indicating fish on those 2 beds ...
Rickie
Im hoping they move in soon!! I'll be down next Monday chasing them!! I won't leave the crappie gear behind just in case!! Can't wait keep the reports coming!!
Sittin' up north here in Illinois, I am EXTREMELY jealous!
Great lookin' fish. Hope you caught several for a nice meal.
Dave
I took my Dad and brother to Barkley today. We fished many of my usual haunts and all we found were dinks. We fished deep, we fished shallow, north side and LBL side. Just a handfull of keeper gills and no keeper redears. We were drop shotting worms and I was dragging a popeye jig. I did get my 4 pound line broken by a bass that was probably 4 pounds.
As we were idiling out of an LBL creek, my 1199 lit up with fish stacked on a point break. I told them we had to get the crank bait rods out and try them. Our first pass dad caught the best fish, probably 1 1/2 lbs. We ended up with a dozen or so (haven't counted for sure) decent keeper crappie and 3-4 GOOD fillet size blue catfish that were almost white.
If they are not on the beds all you can do is work out from the bed area and try to find them staging up somewhere. I have got there to early before and had to do that. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And just like all fishing even if you find them they may not be biting one day or two but biting good on a third. That's fishing. Most of the time by now they should be close to the beds and holding to move in if not on a bed. A few years ago I fished Barkley early and just could not find them shallow or deep. I just kept looking and looking and found a creek arm with some grass on a hump and flooded mustard weed along a bank. I was there for four days...spent two days running up and down the Lake looking for them but the next two I pretty much caught them at will but only in that one place. Sometimes it's like that.
Headed down Derby Day for a few days to try to catch a few
I caught 15 or 16 redear today. We found them in one small area up in the mustard grass. Four were really nice fish, the others were eating size. I think it's going to get good this week and next week.
Nice I'm sure hoping so!!! Can't wait time is almost here!!Quote:
Originally Posted by redearhoosier
im hearing they are catching a few on the Tn side in the Big Sandy area of the lake. I will be after them Saturday
Heading to Kentucky tomorrow and just checking to see if the bluegill and redear action has picked up?
bluegills were good for us Saturday afternoon, only 2 red ears tho