KY Lake Guide Service Blood River Area

I apologize if I offended anyone about eating fish. I also apologize for being vague about my intentions. My wife, two kids and I have planned a family camping, fishing, bike riding trip to Piney campground. We will be staying in the area for 3 nights. Our intentions are to catch some fish and eat them. We prefer to eat crappie and walleye. However we are not really too successful, yet we don’t care a whole lot because we still have fun. Our last trip to Kentucky Lake was about 5 years ago. We did by fishing licenses and fished for some crappie. At that time I did hook up with Dave Stewart and he marked a couple of places on a map to try for some crappie across from Jonathan creek area. I did pay him for his services. We caught about 10 crappie and we ate all of them. My kids had a blast and that is because I was able to get them on a few fish. THANKS DAVE! We don’t get a whole lot of time and rarely get a chance to get out on quality waters that you all have access to. I was just hoping for a little edge to get on some fish. My kids have a very short attention span and hiring a guide I think is a great idea but is kind of a waist of money to take the rest of the family out. I doesn’t seem fare for me to leave them by there selves and me hire a guide and go out and have a good ole time without them. So my next best option was to get a map if possible. I am willing to pay for that service if it is available.

Thanks

Thanks Moose, Ill give this a try!

OK OK LET THE POOR MAN REST, HE JUST WANTS TO GO FISHIN, GIVE HIM A SPOT OR TWO AND GET OVER IT. HEY FISH4FOOD IF YA EVER WANNA CATCH SOME FISH LET ME KNOW, I KNOW BOTH LAKES REAL GOOD. GOT ALMOST 30 YRS ON EM, SO IF THOSE FOLKS WONT HELP YA, LET ME KNOW........SNIPER GONE

Hi Ed: Should have looked at your profile and I would have recognized your name. Again, you might want to call John Morgan to see if he will mark you a map...you can find a link to his website at [url]www.kentuckylake.com[/url] Good luck and have a good time while your down here.

i agree ...when you keep a fish in the livewell that lon git does something too them and how do you know they all live ... you dont for all we know half of them could die later after they swim off

You know I have had a lot of folks over the past few years catch the biggest bass of their life and they all decided to get a replica made (if they wanted a mount at all). I have not had anyone in my boat in a number of years that really wanted to keep a big fish for mounting that they had caught. If you insisted I would let you keep it but I would do my best to encourage you to to take the pics and measurements and release the fish so that someone else would have the thrill of catching that big fish again not to mention keeping the gene pool in the lake of that big fish.

thats a much more reasonable answer,than the one i read this morning Dave. Im just as much about catch and release as the next guy, But i would like to have a realy nice mount...... Happy huntin

If you are looking to catch some numbers of fish with your kids, my 5 year old wore out the bluegill off of shaded areas of the boat dock over July 4th, on night crawlers. You should also be able to set out some jugs for cat-fish in the evenings near camp and pick up some cats, if you don't mind filleting them. They are more difficult to fillet for me. As for crappie, if you have a depth finder you should be able to pick up some good brush piles off the bank on deeper drops and find some crappie. Good luck.

I have seen some reports of studies that showed that some bass don't make it after they are released. I guess the stress is just too much for them.

I guess what we don't know can hurt the fishing after all!

Bottom line is that we now have a lot of fishing pressure on most of the lakes. That is exactly why the state dnr's put limits on the size and number of the different type of fish species. This is done to help protect the fish stocks. I have found that where I live a few people don't read the regulations or don't abide by them. All it takes is for a few people to keep or kill too many fish in any lake to reduce the numbers of fish in that lake. This is really true for some of the smaller lakes that have a lot of fishing pressure. Now take Kentucky lake with all that water connecting it to the other Tennessee Valley lake and rivers and I fail to see how it could be fished out. There is just too much water. Yet the TN and KY DNR have size limits on Crappie of all things. You would think that a fish that can lay over 300,000 eggs each spring would be hard to fish down but evidently that's what has happened on KY lake. Maybe we can blame the lack of big fish on the Corp for not raising and lowering the water levels for to protect the fish and doing that to protect the land from flooding instead. Dropping the water levels after the fish have spawned is sure to wipe out a lot of the next generation of fish.
Regards,

Moose1am