Cranking blood river 7/24

had a not so productive day at blood river yesterday. the last time I fished, I felt like we did better as we shortened our depth and caught 2 really nice crappie along with several shorts so I was hopeful to build on that pattern. Started fishing about 7 oclock and fished until about 1130. We ended up with one keeper that just barely crossed the 10" line. we had 4 or 5 dinks we threw back and 2 cats along with the usual yellow bass mixed in. Couldn't make a depth or a color pattern as we caught them on colors ranging from pink and orange, chrome, to the ugliest Kentucky blue you can imagine. Did see several dreaded Asian carp jumping behind the terrova turbulence. Hopefully it had something to do with the draw down of the lake over the last few days but I cant be too sure. I just have to keep on trying and hope to get areas down that I know hold fish over these hot summer months.

Ugly kentucky blue posted in kentucky section. :popcorn

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Originally Posted by crp4570

Ugly kentucky blue posted in kentucky section. :popcorn

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might get a drink to go with all this popcorn you are going to need to finish reading this post..

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Originally Posted by crp4570

Ugly kentucky blue posted in kentucky section. :popcorn

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Ugly Kentucky Blue = Cardinal Red.....

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Maybe you should have been fishing for strippers... I mean stripers!

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Originally Posted by callen

Maybe you should have been fishing for strippers... I mean stripers!

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Fishin' or pimpin'......

Them call girls are easy pickin's when you are crankin' them great big, deep diving cranks......
But I don't know anything about that stuff, but you can ask Pitino's staff because he knows NOTHING!

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Did you find any baitballs? How deep? How deep did you try to run your cranks thru the baitballs? Right now if the bait isn't there , you are wasting your time.

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Originally Posted by mrdux

Did you find any baitballs? How deep? How deep did you try to run your cranks thru the baitballs? Right now if the bait isn't there , you are wasting your time.

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Mrdux, I found a few but they are small but they were at the 8-12 range and mostly in 16-22 fow. And again, Im seeing the Asian carp a few places im fishing. I haven't left the blood river area but would you think I should get out toward the river and scan close to the secondaries on the main lake initially instead of trying to only stay in BR?

We had zero current on Barkley and KY Monday morning. I was on Barkley and checked the generator discharge at both dams as I headed home. The secondary channels aren't going to be much better with no current.

Im sure that had something to do with the slow bite. I have the TVA site on my phone, but I usually only look at the water level and not the discharge rate.

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Originally Posted by jordanjones

Im sure that had something to do with the slow bite. I have the TVA site on my phone, but I usually only look at the water level and not the discharge rate.

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Discharge rate means zip if the incoming water rate is higher than the discharge rate. It was Monday.

High temps with bluebird skies and virtually no current is putting the hurt on the trolling bite. We left work early and tested the afternoon bite on the north end. Only caught four crappie pulling cranks and there was no pattern to speak of-scattered over 24-30fow moving between some of my go-to tracks that weren't producing. Found a decent shallow yellow bass bite trolling along rocky shorelines-they weren't picky about what colors were in the water. They were ambushing tiny minnows seeking refuge in the rocks. Little current has bait and predatory fish scattered across the lake. We're entering the dog days of summer so stick with it and the bite should pick up if conditions start to change.

How will I know the incoming water rate? Could you shine the light for a blind man?

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At the bottom of the tva lake report will be the current day plus two future day inflow and out flow rates. Incoming water is the inflow and the discharge is the outflow. This data is listed as predicted data.

I see it on the page now. So, what difference in the numbers would be considered decent current?

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