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I fished Ky lake yesterday and despite the high winds we had a pretty good day. My best 5 fish yesterday weighed 19-11. I'm not having any luck catching a big "TOAD" but have caught some really quality fish. Dave Stewarts report is dead on the money as to where the fish are and the lures to use....
If anybody has the opportunity to come down, now is a pretty good time, because if i can catch fish like this anyone can. Just be careful and watch the weather.
Has anyone heard about any MUSKIE being in Ky lake? Yesterday i caught what looked like a Muskie. I have never caught one before and had to look it up on the KDFWR website and the picture they have looks just like what i caught. Mine was only 18 inches or so......
Elnut..... I got off the lake about an hr after you called, So tell your people they dont have to call my people...LOL!!!!!!

[quote=kylakenitro;325053]Has anyone heard about any MUSKIE being in Ky lake? Yesterday i caught what looked like a Muskie. I have never caught one before and had to look it up on the KDFWR website and the picture they have looks just like what i caught. Mine was only 18 inches or so......
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Chain pickerel maybe?

[URL]http://www.in-fisherman.com/magazine/articles/IFM0403_PickeralB.jpg[/URL]

It was similair to a pickeral, But it was grayish in color and you could barely see the markings on its side. Ive caught some pickeral before but this looked a lil differant

I don't know if that was a musky or not but if you're interested in aquiring a few then come on over here to Cave Run and get all you need. Don't even worry about leaving any for seed. Sorry about the vent here but they really are a big sharp tooth in my backside. Lost too many baits to those stinkin critters.

[QUOTE=kylakenitro;325053]I fished Ky lake yesterday and despite the high winds we had a pretty good day. My best 5 fish yesterday weighed 19-11. I'm not having any luck catching a big "TOAD" but have caught some really quality fish. Dave Stewarts report is dead on the money as to where the fish are and the lures to use....
If anybody has the opportunity to come down, now is a pretty good time, because if i can catch fish like this anyone can. Just be careful and watch the weather.
Has anyone heard about any MUSKIE being in Ky lake? Yesterday i caught what looked like a Muskie. I have never caught one before and had to look it up on the KDFWR website and the picture they have looks just like what i caught. Mine was only 18 inches or so......
Elnut..... I got off the lake about an hr after you called, So tell your people they dont have to call my people...LOL!!!!!![/QUOTE]


I called my people yesterday and they said they saw you pulling out of the ramp and they followed you home and currently have you on 24 hour watch. Any move across the Ky Dam, 68/80 bridge towards the trace or just crossing the Ky main river channel will result in immediate painful retaliation so BEWARE!!!!!!! Stay home or on West Ky and all will be just fine and dandy.

[QUOTE=elnutsmalljaws;325072]I called my people yesterday and they said they saw you pulling out of the ramp and they followed you home and currently have you on 24 hour watch. Any move across the Ky Dam, 68/80 bridge towards the trace or just crossing the Ky main river channel will result in immediate painful retaliation so BEWARE!!!!!!! Stay home or on West Ky and all will be just fine and dandy.[/QUOTE]

You guys are killin me, lol.

Seems like 3-4 years ago there was a report of a muskie caught around the Cypress Bay area. I think there are a very few scattered Musky there. I have caught a pickrell or 2 also.

Mickey..I have caught 3 muskie out of KY down around blood river..one pretty biggun..in a BFL..thought I had "THE FISH" on

My brother and I was out with Dave Stewart over last Thanksgiving and my brother caught a musky. Dave made the comment that he's been guiding a long time on Kentucky Lake, and he never seen a musky caught. But it happened. By the way. that was the best four days of fishing I have ever had in my life. Knock them dead on a jerk baits. What a trip. I was wishing we did that good last week, but we didn't.

Muskie are native all over Kentucky and also in Tennessee. It is not out of the question that the fish migrated out of some Tennessee River tributary and into Kentucky Lake. There is plenty of watershed above Kentucky Lake for this to be a possibility. Although there is only a "sustainable" muskie population in Green, Cave Run, Dale Hollow and Buckhorn lakes in Kentucky, I have heard reports of muskie being taken out of Laurel, Barren, Cumberland, Nolin and Rough. You also have to contend with the fishermen that think they are doing a service by transplanting fish from one waterway to another.

i knew it looked a little different than a pickeral. I have never caught a muskie before so i really didnt know what it was. When i got home i looked it up on the internet and the pics that i saw were excatly like what i caught. THANKS GUYS for your input.Keep your lines wet and Good Luck!!!!!

I have caught plenty of muskies in Canada and was suprised when my partner caught one in Standing Rock Creek near Paris TN last fall. I caught a nice chain pickeral there 3 weeks ago.

Another fellow posted he caught 2 muskies around Paris in the 35 inch range the past 2 or so years.

Perhaps they are reproducing enough to start to see them more frequently.

Don