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They are predicting rain and a cold front moving in this weekend. Anybody have any thoughts on how the fish will react to this if it happens? I was planning on coming down but wondering if I should hold off. I am not a regular like some of you who know the lake better than myself.
Looking at the forecast Sat. may be pretty good if the cold front will hold off till the late afternoon. The fish will still bite...just back out to brushpiles in 10' to 14' and fish slow down in the thick stuff if it gets cold.
I'm getting down there Saturday afternoon. Just in time for all this great fishing I'm hearing about to shut down. I'm jinxed.
Casey's right. Back off the banks, fish tight to the brush high & low, slow down & downsize. Might even consider add'n some meat.
I'll be there the 26 - 28th... I hope the front hold off till Sat and heavy rain moves north.
We are going to blood river thursday thru sunday hope the bite keeps up.
I have been going to Kentucky Lake for 6 years straight, same week each year regardless of the weather, and have fished in 40 degrees to 69 degrees temps, with flooded or low water levels in all kinds of water temps. Yeah, the front might make things alittle tough, but it also keeps the fair weather fisherman at bay, making the fishing pressure decrease enough to level off the decrease in the fishes motivation to bite. Now, I almost prefer rain, and fronts to have the lake to myself as much as possible. If it's windy, maybe try crankbaits drifting into the wind, on flats in bays off the main lake (wind socks could be a great investment). If its sunny, you may want to try deep docks (17 fow), vertically jiggin YUM beaver tails. The big females, sometimes spawn in 15 to 18 fow, and stage in 25 fow+, so sometimes the front will bunch up the males that may have went shallow with the warm spell, with those females, so you can get some 16-17-18"ers, that you may not had a chance at because of the tendency of focusing on the shallows where the males are biting more aggressively. It maybe a good idea to focus not just on underwater brush piles, but points and secondary creek channels, as well. I don't use live bait if at all possible, but if the temps drop more than 30 degrees, sometimes you have to go outside the box, and buy a couple dozen and spider rig and cover as much water as you can, because one thing is for sure, they will be biting somewhere, just not everywhere when the weather is perfect. Good fishin... HT
Thanks for the input HT. Last year was my first year and I ended going 4 times with one in July for shellcrackers and we tore them up, they are definitaly underfished. We are coming this weekend Thurs thru Sunday. Then I am coming back next Saturday for 7 days. I can't wait!!
You'll be covering a lot of water fishing a 17fow dock pattern on KY Lake......:eek:
As of right now, the wind forecast is brutal for this weekend.
In Indiana, we shoot docks 80% of the time spring, winter and fall, and it never fails...when I head down to KY Lake, most folks are drifting and pulling out away from the docks, and we have the docks to ourselves almost always. Heck, I almost thought is was against the law to shoot docks down there, but one thing is for sure, there are a lot of docks that hold limits on a given day... and if you know which ones to look for on that given day, that pattern is hard to beat. Don't get me wrong, I will pull cranks, vertical jig, submerged brush, cast buck brush and falling timber, spider rig, but the docks if fished correctly are money.
Possibly, but there are less than a handful of docks on all of KY Lake that sit in 17fow.
Most of the docks on KY Lake now also have no structure that lend themselves to classic dock shooting. As storms tear the old docks up, they are replaced with units that are floating on plastic float perimeters and attached at the bank.
I agree, that the new floating docks don't hold half as many crappie as the older docks that have rusty old poles running to the bottom, but if you throw a pontoon boat in the mix or something to that nature, it will still hold good fish, and in regard to 17 fow docks, I do frequent a few banks near the Tennesse line that have the right set up, and I don't have to fish 17 fow, but they are good to target after a front, but there are alot of docks in 15, 10, 5, etc., and I don't discriminate ;). I also have some marinas I like to target too, that hold alot of fish, sometimes, I can get some really nice crappies at night under the light of the marinas, and usually, I never see another boat during those night excursions, and of course, if you have a portable Vexilar you just walk down the dock until you mark a fish and drop a jig down and see if it's a taker (if you have premission to walk on the marina dock).
I too will be Going to Ky. Lake this next week. at least the water levels are more stable! I am hoping to beat High Tides 3.8 Lb crappie from last year. The fish is still swimming out in cypress somewhere. I am hoping to make the run to Big Sandy on one of the weekdays.
The wind on Kentucky is the worst I have ever endured. By far, the "SCARIEST" lake I have ever been on!!! That could be the game changer for this weekend.
We do that just for the tourists.Quote:
Originally Posted by UKFAN36
Once they all leave, we turn it off and it's smooth as glass. :D
Was crossing the main lake to my place at Johnathan creek after running jugs one night when a storm came out of the south. In minutes waves were coming over the top rail. I had my Bassett hound with me and he crawled under the console and was howling. I saw the storm coming but it was too fast. Now I keep a weather scanner with me. I thought I was a goner. Rosco was a little skeptical about going out at night with me for a while. He's fine now. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by UKFAN36
Glad you made it across safely , thats a good reminder for everyone .