Bluegrass Fishing Report

Well the bass were biting at Bluegrass today. Saturday.

I caught 8 bass in total trolling crank baits behind the boat. Fish were hitting the cranks at 14 ft depths.

My speed varied from 1.3 mph to 2.3 mph depending on if I was going into the wind or with the wind.

I marked all kinds of fish suspended out over deep were. They were anywhere from 19 ft down to 10 ft down for the most part. Some were shallower.

I tried fishing shallow but with no luck. I tried three different baits of different colors with no luck in the shallower depths.

Water temperature at the surface was around 73 deg F. Winds were gusting up to 20 mph. It was cloudy but the air temperature reached 75 deg F by 4 pm.

The lake was pretty crowded today with about 10 to 12 boat trailers in the parking lot. However everyone parked the right way so that there was still room for more boats and boat trailers. I was surprise by this. Even the Bike Riders were parking so that they didn't take up too many parking spaces.

Two of the bass I caught were around 3 lbs or so. I didn't measure them or anything but put them both back into the water quickly after I got the treble hooks out of them. I did take one picture of the one bass with my cell phone camera. I'll have to upload that to my pix place account and then to photo bucket before I can post it in here. But it's not that great of a picture anyway.

I'm using the Precision Trolling Book that they sell at Gander Mountain. I found it to be pretty accurate. This is my second trip trolling for fish and both times I've caught a lot some fish. I am able to see the fish on the Humminbird Sonar (switchfire mode) and figure out how deep they are suspended using the fish ID thing. The depth appears in black text right next to the fish symbol. So all I have to do is look at the dive curve for the bait I'm using and figure the amount of line to let out. Then I just use the line counter to feed the correct amount of fishing line out. I started catching fish right away. The first day I did this I had a small bass hit my bait within just a few hundred yards. Not bad for dialing in the right depth.

I've trolled spoon plugs on KY lake and hooked into some nice 5 or 6 lb bass in the past and have caught sauger and crappie and catfish trolling white bombers behind the boat.

was there thursday evening temp was reading 80 can ,t see why it would be so much different than yours i,d say 74 would be alittle cool right now. caught 4 bass all on cranks

I was expecting it to be a little warmer too. Maybe it cooled down as it did get down into the lower fiftys or upper forties at night the past few nights. I know that I had to turn on the furnace one night last Friday night.


[QUOTE=quack;491493]was there thursday evening temp was reading 80 can ,t see why it would be so much different than yours i,d say 74 would be alittle cool right now. caught 4 bass all on cranks[/QUOTE]

I fished Bluegrass Saturday for a while from around 10 am to 1 pm. I caught one small bass and hooked one good bass that got off when he jumped. But I got a good look at him a few times before he got off. He jumped as soon as I started reeling him in. And he jumped again when he got within 15 ft of the boat. I had about 50 ft of line out when I hooked him. He bend the road over pretty good so I knew I had a bite.

Fishing was not as good as before but I did get a chance to test out the new Lakemaster Map of Bluegrass Pit to see how well it's depth contours matched up to my boat's position and depth readings on my sonar unit. Some areas were dead on right and other areas in the shallows were showing the water to be shallow on the map when it was really 19 ft deep.

But it was good to get out on the water. I was late going fishing Saturday as I had to do some work on my boat trailer before I left. Also had to check out the spark plugs as they were getting fouled up with carbon as I've been going at idle speed a lot these last few trips. I need to take the boat out on the river or to Patoka Lake so that I can open up the motor and blow the carbon out. But until I do that I'll just remove the spark plugs and soak them in Sea Foam and clean them with a file or sand paper. The boat runs better at slow speed now that I cleaned the spark plugs. I had a little trouble starting the motor the last time out so I figured it was time to take a look at the spark plugs.

Next item on the to buy list is a side planer board.