Lake Conditions:
Barkley – 357.90, 23,000 CFS, Stained with water temps in upper 80’s
Kentucky – 357.75 21,000-60,000 CFS, light stain with temps in upper 80’s
Weather: It’s been a beautiful week of weather here around the lakes with the exception of some storms that rolled through the area yesterday bring some needed rain. It looks to be a great weekend ahead along with a pleasant upcoming week. Highs should run in the upper 80’s to low 90’s and we look to stay dry most of the week except Monday when there is a 50% chance of rain.
Bass Fishing: Sorry if it sounds like a broken record but it’s been much of the same as it’s been the past few weeks. The TVA has lake levels back down to normal we are starting to see a few more fish come off main lake flats again but yet to run across a school of fish. We didn’t spend much time offshore this week and the few fish we did catch came on a Big Bite Baits B2 worm around stumps on flats. I have talked with a few guys that have caught some descent bags on the ledges but they are far and few between yet. The time we did spend bass fishing this week has been shallow or mid depth areas keying on main lake points and even some close secondary points that had deep water close by along with shallow grass that still has water in it was the ticket. Whacky rigging a Big Bite Baits trick stick and a Outkast Tackle shake down shaky head with a Big Bite Baits finesse worm. Our best bite this week was on a couple nights of the full moon while throwing dark colored spinnerbaits over shallow bars.
White Bass and Yellows: We spent most of our week chasing these critters around and why not they are more than willing to eat when you find them and make great tablefare. With the current flowing throw Lake Barkley right now it’s been a much better bite. Over all presentation has been pretty simple as we’ve been either vertical jigging a blade bait or small spoon over schools that we find along main river channels, main lake points and humps. When the bite seems to get a little tough you can always drop a jig and minnow on them and they simply can’t resist that easy meal. Lake Barkley is where we’ve spent most of our time with pretty decent results. Most of the fish have been stripes and yellows with some nice whites mixed in. Anytime you’re using a blade bait like a Steel Shad you’ve got the possibility of catching anything and we’ve caught it all this week from crappies, largemouth bass, catfish and even sauger.
Crappie and Bluegill: No report as we haven’t fished for these critters for a couple weeks. I have noticed there are quite a few around the docks feeding on insects and minnows that are feeding on the algae growing on the bottoms of the floats.
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