Anyone doing any good?
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Anyone doing any good?
Zero current means it will be tough.
I was out with a party a couple of weeks ago and there was a commercial fisherman running trotlines close to us. It looked like 2/3 of the cats he caught were dead, even on top of the drops where there should be plenty of oxygen. They can't commercially sell dead fish to some markets so he was chunking every dead one over the side. There was a floating line of dead fish behind his boat.
Wow ..... sure hate to hear of that happening ..... Maybe he waited too long to run his lines. Catfish are pretty tough fish.
In all the years we ran bank poles on our local river, I don't think we ever had a dead catfish on the line.....of course we ran the lines every few hours.
Just pull cranks on a ledge...you'll catch some even if you don't want too!! Actually , have caught some on a catfish trip in 35 to 50 feet on a double rig with crawlers.
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I haven't fish all that much but I have ran jugs a couple of times and so far I have caught one small channel. I had one significant hit on a rod I had out while I let the jugs drift, but it was only a hit and run. I have thought about running trot lines on Clark's river but haven't gotten around to it. I used to fish a river about that size up in Illinois and filled the freezer every time I ran them.
I went down below Barkley Sunday, It was slow there too. I hear they're catching good numbers and big cats below Smithland.
They were until the water came up. All the West Virginia water will be headed down the Ohio.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdrowl67
River jumped 7-8 foot at newburgh this past week. It is a mess.
Every 5-7 days we will get a pop-up thunderstorm here and it will muddy the creeks and cause flash flooding. 3/4 of our water runs into barren then green. 1/4 runs into the cumberland eventually.
I have to think that the green is up somewhat as well.
Is TVA holding back KY and Barkley some due to the Ohio?
Ky is up 0.2 but predicted outflow is less than inflow for next 3 days. Outflow is only going to be 18,135. They normally start dropping the lakes right at July 4th. We'll see.Quote:
Originally Posted by smashdn
Checked the USGS water watch site and Green is steady most gauges. Ohio is dropping around henderson. Didn't check Smithland though.
I am going to get out somewhere for blues just undecided where at this point. Probably not Ky or Barkley though with no current.
Caught three the other night above Rochester. One fiddler and two blues. Caught the channel while trying to catch a bluegill. Caught the blues on cut bluegill. One went about 8, the bigger about 10.
Mosquitoes ran me off the water. They were unreal.
The predicted amount hasn't changed but the observed yesterday was around 25k. We got quite a bit of rain over this way yesterday. The green jumped maybe 6" in the time we were out on it from 11:00-7:00. All the sloughs and creeks got flushed out. Drift got bad. Fishing stunk.Quote:
Originally Posted by mrdux
We are coming to camp at Hilman's weekend after next and hopefully they will be pulling better to turn on the fish.
We got 7+ inches of rain here in Benton 3rd and 4th together. I figure we'll be seeing current and enough mud to plant.
Mud ain't good. Ran into plenty of that yesterday. River got trashy quick. Went from a 2oz current to barely holding with 6oz. Hoping it clears and the pull is maintained till the 15th.
Several more inches of rain yesterday afternoon and this morning...7/7/16. I think Dux needs to help me build an ark and Ricky
can rig up some podunk magic on it!!!
Got 3+ inches in BG and we got 2.5 according to the mesonet site. Creek is rolling today. It will take 5 days to clear here anyway. I suspect that Green and Ohio will be a mess for a while.
I have enough xducers on my da'ducer apparatus® to seine the lake ...Quote:
Originally Posted by BIGBADDAD
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Rickie
What kind of shape is Ky in now? I been watching both lakes flow and it seems they switch day to day which one they are pulling.
We are still planning on coming over Friday to camp and fish.
Haven't fished cats but have seen boat loads at the dock!!+
Ky is in good shape and Barkley is a bowl of muddy soup with everything imaginable floating in it.
I did see a whitetail fawn bloated and floating down the middle of KY a few days ago. 15 inches of rain last week is going to be catastrophic to wildlife.