Best Time/place For Hybrids In Ky???

Barren has Alewifes, so you might be able to net some under lights. Just check the regs down there on the size of net that you can use. I know its different than Cumberland, so I don't want to stear you wrong.

Don't over look the Ohio River for Hybrids either. The dams and hydros at several locations will hold Hybrids, Whites, and Stripers various times of the year. An 8 pound Hybrid in the screaming currents there can make life interesting. Still looking to break that size on the Ohio.

Herrington was always a feast or famine for me. Did real good downrigging there with bucktails on several occasions during the summer months. Also some topwater action (a lot of white bass in those too) early and late in the day during summer.

Andrew

Rich, don't forget the tailwaters below the dams on the Ohio river. I 've had great success there. The best time of yr. seems to be when it's hot. June, July, and Aug. Caught many of them on large surface baits, large curly tails,(chartruse), and kastmasters 3/4 to 1oz size. The best time of day is very early and very late. Man, they'll make you beg for mercy!!

I've gotta say Rough River in April or May even in the fall. In the Axtel area, at the mouth of Licking Creek arround sunset with a sammy or any other crankbait. Some of the jumps in this area get massive, litterly wall to wall. We sat there one night right in the middle with fish boiling for 100 yards surrounding our boat for almost 1/2 hour, catching fish on every cast.

Another good place is T-ville. A lotta people overlook it but there are some decent fish there. Try the hump around the bend from settler's trace (heading toward the dam). About two weeks before derby til about two weeks after, you can catch 'em really well in that spot with liver or minnows. Haven't caught any monsters but most we catch then are between 2 1/2 and 6 #'s. Its easy fishin. If the bite slows or dies, just use the tm to move around on the hump while watchin the df. Usually repositioning and/or changing your casting angle will get 'em bitin' again.

I love striper fishin on Barren. Spring is easy pickins', but I have found any day you can be on the lake when there is a thin cloud layer is best. I catch a lot near the dam trolling rooster tails or rat-l-traps. Once I get a fish, I like to cast the area throughly because its always better to feel one of those bad boys grab your line than to just see your pole bend over. Plus, by casting, you can get a little deeper where the big ones are. I have been very ill-prepared on Barren before and I have had what I know as HUGE fish come off my pole. Defenetly a great fishery.
And the guys talking about the Barren tailwater are exactly correct. If I'm camping on the lake during the weekend, I'll generally use sunday to fish the tailwaters, or I'll simply camp at the tailwater's campground. Its simply that good of a fishery. But as with any tailwater enviroment, the fishing is give and take. I have been down there fishing a spoon so fast that it skirted on the top of the surface while watching a 3+ pounder chase it down. And I have been down there for entire weekends only to be skunked. So it is quite the periodical fishery.

barren river mid spring use a rattlin rouge long bill chrome/blue. in the backs of pockets. we have also had success with a rattle trap in the same color.