Miles Park Lake

[JimDi]

I want to try to get my five year old to catch some fish and was considering Miles Park Lake in Jefferson County. Is the lake any good or any suggestions how to catch them there??

Any suggestions in Jefferson County or close to catch some fish. Catch and release only.

[artcarney_agr]

There are several lakes there, almost like a fishing golf course! Ha ha ha!

The biggest one would be your best bet. A tube of crickets should get you several bluegill and some trout from the riprap along the road's edge.

[RoadToad]

Lake #4 is a FiNS Lake. http://fw.ky.gov/urbanfishing.asp There are several others in Jefferson County.

Most years they've stocked it by this date with rainbow trout. I assume they're going to soon, or maybe they already have, and just haven't updated the site. Once they do, those trout are easy to catch. For a kid, some corn under a bobber would be a good bet, or minnows if you think they're up to the task. My favorite lure is a Super-Duper, but rooster tails and spinners work well too. I fish from the riprap (dam) like Art mentioned, but I've seen people doing well from the grassy part of the bank. Avoid the area right at the base of the hill coming down from the parking lot, right next to the dam. They also stock that lake with bass and catfish on a regular basis. I've never seen any bass of any size come out of there, but I've seen a few people take home nice baskets of catfish.

[Jeffflem514]

They haven't stocked them with the trout yet. Nor have they posted exactly when they will be stocked. I called and the only info they would give is sometime this month. If you go for the trout you have to have a separate liscense called a trout stamp. Just a heads up.

[artcarney_agr]

They haven't stocked them with the trout yet. Nor have they posted exactly when they will be stocked. I called and the only info they would give is sometime this month. If you go for the trout you have to have a separate liscense called a trout stamp. Just a heads up.

I believe you only need a trout stamp if you plan on keeping them, right? If you catch a trout and do not possess the trout stamp, you must release the fish immediately...or that was my understanding of it.

[RoadToad]

You're right, you need a trout stamp to keep trout, not to catch them. Limit is 5 on the FiNS lakes, not 8 like most other places. But they're good eating, a good pan size, and I hate to see them thrown back when they're gut-hooked, which happens, especially with live bait or corn, anything under a bobber. It's strictly a put-take stocking; it's not the natural habitat for rainbow trout, which require running water to reproduce, so it's not like they're trying to establish a population. In fact, they all die every summer. So catch and release of those trout seems pointless to me.

JimDi, Fisherman's Park is right there in J-town. There's one lake there that they stock with trout, but all of them have different kinds of sunfish in them - bluegill, goggle-eyes, that kind of thing. I like taking a cane pole around the edge of either of the bigger lakes there and just seeing what I can scare up.