I'm headed down this next weekend..............
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I'm headed down this next weekend..............
[QUOTE=GeoFisher;585634]I'm headed down this next weekend..............[/QUOTE]
Just got back from 3 days down with my wife but not much of a fishing trip as we were doing maintenance around the place. Went out Monday morning on Barkley and found the surface bite slow-ish. I had 8 or 10 bits but only hooked up with 2 smaller ones. They were just kind of passive on the strikes. When I came off surface I caught several other small fish but was only out 3 hours or so. Ran into some schooling whites with the misses later on the pontoon which was fun. Late yesterday took another toon ride as it was clouding up and I definitely picked the wrong fishing window. I didn't have a trolling motor on the toon so just stopping and blowing across a few points I found the fish pretty active. I pulled up on one point and with the combo of a small popper and curly tail must have landed over 20 small largemouth and 1 keeper. Also shook off a 17 or 18 inch sauger at the boat. Of all my time on Barkley I don't recall ever having caught a sauger although I catch them on KY from time-to-time. Ended up blowing across one more point and took a keeper smallmouth on surface. Man I wish I was out in the bass boat. Bait fish are stacking up in the mouths of the creeks. With this cool snap coming I think that will accelerate and better fish won't be far behind. Good luck this weekend. I plan to head down again early next week myself and get on KY this time. Sharpening up the hooks on my surface lures...
Boys and Girls.............it is ON FIRE down there.
A buddy and Mine caught 114 bass on Barkley on Saturday........NO ****. Only 4-5 keepers, but man it was fast and furious.
20mph North Winds helped, as bait was pushed up on South points, and bays.
On Sunday we caught a few but not nearly that number........
On Sunday I lost a smallie well over 6 on a sammy. THAT SUUCKED. .....The smallie saw the boat made a run and bent out the back hook. IT was a freakin BEAST.
All Fish Saturday were caught on redeye shad, crankbaits, swimbaits, and blade baits.
We caught 70 on 1 spot........no SHEITE.
It's getting really good.
Hopefully we start getting some size.
Barkley or KY?
To think i was excited to catch 20 bass and 3 keeps each day at T ville 2 times last week. :o
[QUOTE=Tacklebag23;585643]Barkley or KY?
To think i was excited to catch 20 bass and 3 keeps each day at T ville 2 times last week. :o[/QUOTE]
We started in Smith on KY Lake. Caught a few there. it was FUN...........but wind kept that out of play the rest of the weekend.
We ended up on Barkley for the next 2 days..............
Barkley was cooler,...........
I'm hoping to HAMMER them coming up in 2 weeks.
Later,
Geo