KY 2/19

Though the weather girl was a little more accurate this morning compared to yesterday, the fog on the water would make jolly old London jealous. I had to move twice until I got onto them and had a limit plus a couple yellow bass by noon. Biggest went 12 1/4". I lost a bigger fish juggling a 16' rod in one hand and an ego net that I wished was 4' longer in the other. Water temps 48-52.4. Got checked by the KDFWR game warden boat and he was hitting every boat in one of the major bays and saw at least one citation being written. Ran into the creel survey boat out speaking with people as well. A few of the creeks looked like it was already late March with all the boats on the water.

***Be safe out there, the idiots are already out in full force.***

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Lookin good ...

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Rickie

Amen on the idiots. And it's not even a full moon.......

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Awesome! Where was this? Glad to see someone had luck today. I caught One 8in crappie. I tried live bait, jigs, spinners... all of it. Air temp 55 degrees, water temp 42-45. Fishing on yatesville lake. Not a good day...


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Congrats on a fine mess.

"Got checked by the KDFWR game warden boat and he was hitting every boat in one of the major bays and saw at least one citation being written. Ran into the creel survey boat out speaking with people as well."

Is that common this time of year?

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Originally Posted by funfishers

"Got checked by the KDFWR game warden boat and he was hitting every boat in one of the major bays and saw at least one citation being written. Ran into the creel survey boat out speaking with people as well."

Is that common this time of year?

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It is and should be every month of the year. Our county has been without a CO (game warden) for 2 years. Word I got yesterday is we will have a new CO in a couple of weeks.

I spoke with the game warden that has been working Jonathon and Blood and he told me he has written a lot of tickets for short fish. And it is mostly locals.
It saddens me to know that we are hurting are own lake by removing the shorts. Please check and understand how to measure your fish.

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Originally Posted by Jman5626

Awesome! Where was this? Glad to see someone had luck today. I caught One 8in crappie. I tried live bait, jigs, spinners... all of it. Air temp 55 degrees, water temp 42-45. Fishing on yatesville lake. Not a good day...


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They were caught at KY Lake, Jman.

As long as your fish are big enough to keep and you don't have more than your supposed to, shouldn't have anything to worry about. The game wardens I've run into at Barren and Nolin all seem to be real good fellows. Went fishing with one of my older buddies a couple weeks ago, and he forgot his life jacket. He seen a game warden in the parking lot and went up to ask him where the best place to buy a life jacket in town was. He was just gonna run into Glasgow and buy one. Game warden told him hold on, and reached in his truck and handed my buddy a life jacket. We thanked him, and asked him where his truck would be later, so we could put the life jacket back in it, after we were done fishing. He told us to keep it, it was an extra one that they give away anyway at their boating safety seminars. Awesome.

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Originally Posted by Dutch552

Though the weather girl was a little more accurate this morning compared to yesterday, the fog on the water would make jolly old London jealous. I had to move twice until I got onto them and had a limit plus a couple yellow bass by noon. Biggest went 12 1/4". I lost a bigger fish juggling a 16' rod in one hand and an ego net that I wished was 4' longer in the other. Water temps 48-52.4. Got checked by the KDFWR game warden boat and he was hitting every boat in one of the major bays and saw at least one citation being written. Ran into the creel survey boat out speaking with people as well. A few of the creeks looked like it was already late March with all the boats on the water.

***Be safe out there, the idiots are already out in full force.***

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nice crappie, but why would anyone keep yellow bass?

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Originally Posted by ibmack

nice crappie, but why would anyone keep yellow bass?

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Supposed to be right tasty if properly cleaned !!

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Originally Posted by ibmack

nice crappie, but why would anyone keep yellow bass?

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Cause they are a nuisance but tastey when fried up. Just small fillets.

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Originally Posted by smashdn

Cause they are a nuisance but tastey when fried up. Just small fillets.

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We used to catch tons of those through the ice on Wigglers and Swedish Pimples in 25 feet of water on the Chain of Lakes in IL. Particularly when caught in the winter, I have to say, they are real tasty.

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Originally Posted by mrdux

It is and should be every month of the year. Our county has been without a CO (game warden) for 2 years. Word I got yesterday is we will have a new CO in a couple of weeks.

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I agree 100%. The officer was very polite, checked my license, fire extinguisher and PFD. Spot checked my livewell and I pulled all six fish I had at the time out for him in transparency and we measured them.

I hate to think that some of our own neighbors have been so complacent with not having any law enforcement presence whatsoever on two of our largest bodies of water that they have started to push the limit with short fish and exceeding the creep limit. While it does take five or ten minutes out of your day, the benefits to the fishery and public safety far outweighs the minor inconvenience in my book.

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nice crappie, but why would anyone keep yellow bass?

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The fillets, though small, are a nice sweet firm meat that taste delicious if you catch them big enough or enough if them. They're pleasantly annoying, hit like they're a four pound smallmouth and have a knack for tangling up at least three lines if you take your time getting them to the boat. I try to do my part and keep a couple each trip.

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Originally Posted by bandchaser

Amen on the idiots. And it's not even a full moon.......

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It's an eerie feeling navigating through fog with MAYBE 50 feet of visibility at the most and hearing some idiot running up on you WOT at 60+ mph down the main lake but you can't see them. No way anyone could react fast enough if they ran up on another craft without a FLIR setup at that speed. I would say that it is a miracle no one was injured in a collision yesterday morning from the multiple people trusting their GPS plotters and not using common sense.

There were a few other dumdum moves witnessed but the multiple boats at WOT in nearly no visibility dumbfounded me.

I was told the same thing. Note; watch your buddy and don't let him put shorts in the well. I had a buddy from Indiana with me last year and a 10" crappie looks like a giant to him. Don't think he would put shorts in the well on purpose but when we got checked there was a few in there that was close. They made it but I felt funny cause I told the warden we didn't even have any that were close because I don't keep line burners they have to be 1/4 inch at least over for me to keep them. Just beware of the guy in the back of the boat. I measure the fish he caught but when they were biting good I missed a few and I really felt bad at the ramp.

Congratulations on the catch and all the game wardens that I have been checked by have been nice and no bother. Mostly it depends on your attitude whether you get ticketed.