Barkley 4/4/17

Without a doubt the prettiest day I have had the chance to get out this year. Also the first day in a while for me the wind hasn't dictated where I could fish. Would like to say I burned them up like everyone seems to be doing but wasn't the case for me. Caught a limit but it wasn't easy. Half from 10-13ft, half from 19-20ft nothing doing in between. Tried some shallower, nothing going on there either, but my boat thinks it's lost when I try to fish shallower than 10ft anyway. No real bruisers but a few pretty solid fish.
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Congrats!

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Same here Austin. Really scattered right now. Sorry we did not chat a while. Getting over a cold.

A very fine looking mess of fillets.

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Originally Posted by pab1981

Without a doubt the prettiest day I have had the chance to get out this year. Also the first day in a while for me the wind hasn't dictated where I could fish. Would like to say I burned them up like everyone seems to be doing but wasn't the case for me. Caught a limit but it wasn't easy. Half from 10-13ft, half from 19-20ft nothing doing in between. Tried some shallower, nothing going on there either, but my boat thinks it's lost when I try to fish shallower than 10ft anyway. No real bruisers but a few pretty solid fish.
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Great catch!


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Originally Posted by ifish

Same here Austin. Really scattered right now. Sorry we did not chat a while. Getting over a cold.

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Sorry you haven't been feeling well Buddy and sorry we didn't get a chance to talk. I saw you back in that one bay later when I pulled in and figured I would see you again before we went in but I ended having to run quite a bit further up the lake than I wanted to finish off my limit.

I am not sure if they are scattered or if more than normal haven't run up on the banks all at once and we are fishing for stragglers. Guys pitching the banks and dragging jigs/spider rigging shallow seem to be doing well. Oh well, I'm content to do my thing and enjoy my time when I get to get out. Hope to see you soon my friend.

what's wrong with that catch on a pretty day? answer is not one darn thing! WTG guy, good job of adjusting to where they were at.

Congrats on the catch. Look's like you had a good time.
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Looks like a great day

Ky Lake is the same guys. In the last 4 days we have caught good fish pulling planer boards in water as shallow as 2.5 feet then yesterday my clients caught 30 keepers pulling cranks in 12-20 feet. If they had boated all the keepers we had almost to the net it would have easily been a solid double limit.

Lots of the fish are females that have runny eggs, both shallow and deep.

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Ky Lake is the same guys. In the last 4 days we have caught good fish pulling planer boards in water as shallow as 2.5 feet then yesterday my clients caught 30 keepers pulling cranks in 12-20 feet. If they had boated all the keepers we had almost to the net it would have easily been a solid double limit.

Lots of the fish are females that have runny eggs, both shallow and deep.

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I agree, my last trip on Ky we caught fish from 2' to to 25'. My only problem was trying to find a brush pile that didn't have a boat on it and two in line waiting to fish it. Then there is some people that don't mind joining you uninvited to fish with in casting distance, I wouldn't ever do that to anyone....... just saying. That's the only reason why I moved to less crowded waters.


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I agree, my last trip on Ky we caught fish from 2' to to 25'. My only problem was trying to find a brush pile that didn't have a boat on it and two in line waiting to fish it. Then there is some people that don't mind joining you uninvited to fish with in casting distance, I wouldn't ever do that to anyone....... just saying. That's the only reason why I moved to less crowded waters.


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I have to fish weekends because that is when clients want to fish. Sunday we were on good fish in 2 different bays and one of them was full of weekend warriors who covered us up any time they saw us catch one. It is infuriating to have boats run in, right in our trolling path, where we had to turn to go around them just because they saw us catch one. If I didn't just consider that a normal happening in the spring on KY Lake, I would have ulcers the size of basketballs.

Good catch Austin! I fished Ky Tuesday with my dad, we had 20 keepers in 3 hours, caught lots of small fish!, gonna hit Barkley tomorrow for a couple of hours, found some last Saturday in 16', hoping they're still there