KY Lake Oct 31-Nov 6

Monday-Daylight put in at Kuttawa, fish around those few creeks and ran down to Eddy Creek....One keeper and probably 10 fish, most flipping

Tuesday-Daylight put in at KDV and worked the LBL side of KY down close to the bridge....10-15 keepers and probably 30 fish, all on moving baits

Wednesday-Daylight put in at KDV, went down the LBL side of KY trying to match our pattern but not as much as success....4-5 keepers and probably 15 fish

Thursday-Daylight put in KDV with the wind a little high and found out why you should always have a strap on your trolling motor...Took off across KY toward the main channel, took a wave wrong, and the trolling motor broke...Back off the lake, took it Jet-A-Marina and they had me back on the water in about 5 hours....great service from the guys there...Only got to fish a couple hours but had probably 25-30 fish around KDV and some of the pockets straight across KY

Friday-Went back to check our fish that we'd found Tues and they were still there....Caught a few and headed out of there...Wound up with about 20 fish and 3 or 4 keepers in about half a day

Saturday-First day of tournament...Went to our fish, picked up a limit in the first 45 minutes and left our fish alone as it was a 2 day tournament...Went looking for a big bite and couldn't find it...Wound up with about 25 fish and 8 keepers, best 5 weighed just under 12lbs

Sunday-day 2 of the tournament and a 20mph south wind at takeoff....Never made it far enough south to get to our fish as we were fighting the rollers...Boat took a pounding as I broke a knob off the trolling motor and a wall of water broke my GPS mount as I speared a wave...Quickly realized the water was too big and turned around and headed back north...Got in a bay that was sheltered by the wind and started catching them....Had probably 12-15 keepers and close to 40 fish...Best 5 weighed just under 14lbs

Wound up with 25.4lbs for the tourny and finished 10th...Of course they only payed the top 9 but I was fairly pleased as this was only my 3rd trip to the big lakes...Most of our fish were caught 3/4 of the way back in the bays and were caught pretty much along the same lines of Daves reports

If you're heading down there and you don't yet own an Alabama Rig, GET ONE

I came down thursday night and fished friday thru sunday. Lake was awesome weather wise friday and saturday (minus the fog saturday morning). Sunday she showed her true colors, man it was rough out there. We ran to Barkley Sunday to try and get out of the wind. Actually wound up catching some good fish on north Barkley. We had 15.29lbs saturday and 15.01lbs sunday. Never really got on a big fish bite. ALL of the fish we weighed in were on the A-rig. That thing will wear you out throwing it cast after cast, but it wound up paying off! Glad you had a good trip!

Sounds like a good trip you two had. I am going down in two weeks. I hope I can find them too.

what tournament did you fish CMIDD....sounds like you had a pretty good bag and it only took 35 to win the R&W

We fished the R&W classic out of KDV.