Back from Ky Lake....

[QUOTE=kc;295745]Don't you love it when the green fish are on and the brown fish aren't? It seems on KY that one or the other is biting on a given night but rarely do both bite well the same night. It is early for the green fish to be on the smallie drops but that is the way it has gone this year. I hit KY early for night fishing a couple of Mays back and we found the brown fish slow and the green fish non-existant on the drops but at day light caught the green fish up on the spawning flats. The green fish aren't much on the spawning flats right now. I haven't night fished KY much in May but I have a feeling the brownies haven't set up on their summer patterns just yet. We somtimes catch them on surface lures up in the pockets which makes me wonder if they don't set up well on the summer drops until the shad move out.

I had a notion to give you a yell Friday for that open seat offer but I just couldn't pull an all nighter. I came down for the week end but had an exhausting week at work and just couldn't get there early or have the stamina I fished Barkley for a few hours before and after dark Saturday and pulled a zero. A lone flathead cat on a jig was all I could muster.

Night fishing KY is one of my favorite bites. Not only the fishing is addicting but fishing in LBL is really cool. Did the coyotes yip it up Friday night? You sound like my night-angling twin with the drop spinner, tube, and jig as your main arsenal. Buzzers at day break -- I would have sworn we learned from the same master. I take 4 rods out at night - 2 spinner, 1 tube, and 1 jig and I could take a kid-sized plano tackebox for as little tackle as I typically need.

I feel your pain on the tournament-day traffic and manners. I have been foaming on this board for years about tournaments and they are doing nothing but getting worse. Having a place on the lake I am getting so cranky about sharing the lake with the tournament jerks often I sleep in and do my chores early preferring to fish later in the day or at night. It is no wonder I like night fishing as much as I do.

If you would like to give the night bite at KY a shot with your back seat full (or my back seat for that matter) drop me a line. With 3 teenagers my schedule is complex at times but I am looking forward to mid-June or so to give it my first try and I fish too often with an empty back seat. Keep up the great posts. They always make me smile!!!

kc[/QUOTE]

Coyotes, Wild Dogs or whatever was having a field day. All by myself on the lake and they were the only company I had. Too cold for even the bugs to be my neighbors. I have a milk run setup between Smith, Duncan, Sugar and Higgins that is set for where I catch Smallies and USUALLY don't catch many Greenfish but not the case Friday night. It would have been a long cold night if not for the Greenfish and I am thankful for that.

Some times I find that the green fish are biting and the smallies aren't and vice-versa (the nights I like best). The times I have seen both bite well on the same night is when weather is moving through. I remember a night in August several years back when a front came through on our third night and we woke up in the evening to rain coming down in buckets and the radar loaded up for hours. We didn't figure on going out so we fixed a big meal and sat down to watch "rain man" on TV and the 11:00 news came on with the radar and the rain had just passed. We looked at each other and said what the heck -- best night I can remember. No monsters brownies but we had at least 6 over 4 lbs, 1 greenie 7 lbs, and somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 - 30 keeper sized of both. They were eating the spinner up that night. But most "calm" nights are either green or brown -- can't explain why. Coyotes yip most nights but when weather is coming through they tend to yip more!!

Your milk run is much the same as mine except I usually put in at the bridge and do the Rhodes, Higgins, Sugar, Duncan run. I have only fished down to Smith a few times and I have a few spots up towards the bridge in Savells, Vickers, and Barnett that produce. South of the bridge has it's time too -- that is where we first night fished on KY but the water south doesn't lay out as well as north to Duncan -- especially when the water comes down. I put in Sugar when the lake is too rough to run and my milk run gets much shorter.

If you are up for a couple of nights in a row look me up this summer. I like the moon in June but I see it is the first week end and I will be camping/canoeing with the boys scouts on that week end so it looks like the dark side for my first nighter. KY lake has spoiled me so bad I can't even get excited about night fishing any other lake. I held one 7 lb brownie and I keep searching for it's grandma!

kc