Lake cumberland waters not that bad

#1 Gamugatsu Octupus (not 1 ought) . Caught tons on same hook last summer and fall. Never missed one or broke one off. The shinners I was using were normal 3-3.5"

What do you think.
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I think you are right on, but I think Lance and myself are using #3's Check with Lance or Randell to be sure. If a board goes down then you should have a fish on.

hey peter i think your mystery baitkiller is the lowly drum, we caught some monster drum this morning, i will try to post a pic of one if i can figure this out. some of them would still have the shad in their mouth when we would get the hook out and the shad wouldnt be tore up bad like a catfish or gar or walleye would do.

[QUOTE=stripernut;413875]hey peter i think your mystery baitkiller is the lowly drum, we caught some monster drum this morning, i will try to post a pic of one if i can figure this out. some of them would still have the shad in their mouth when we would get the hook out and the shad wouldnt be tore up bad like a catfish or gar or walleye would do.[/QUOTE]

Sounds like a good explination to me. Best one I have heard. Kind of goes along with those soft lips that I have always disliked-just gummin the bait.

Weird, last year I dodn't hear of many people catching drum. Maybe I just talked to the fortunate ones, but I have heard a lot about drum this year.

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Peter

hey peter the drum are more of a problem this year for some reason, they kill alot of bait and dont do alot to fill the cooler, frustrating

down in the bayous they are a delicacy, even the fresh water ones. Clean em right and they are as good as stripers, which if you dont clean right are worse than trout

kygorski, couldnt agree with you more, i would rather clean the striper correctly at the end of the day though

[QUOTE=peter;413839]#1 Gamugatsu Octupus (not 1 ought) . Caught tons on same hook last summer and fall. Never missed one or broke one off. The shinners I was using were normal 3-3.5"

What do you think.
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It was Gar I would bet on it. That lake is full and I mean full of Gar now.

I am heading to Cumberland this Thursday and wanted to get an update as to the Lake Conditions. I will be heading out of Alligator II marina. What are your thought about night fishing with the current conditions?

Thanks,

PCT

the debris conditions are improving, the water has dropped a little, water clarity is perfect (for now) , i know the lake is a mess on the somerset end and around connely bottom etc, we dont have the mudddy water yet. if you are going to night fish you are going to snag alot of sumerged bushes and a little trash. a little slower than it was 3 wks ago but you will still catch fish

[QUOTE=kygorski;413931]down in the bayous they are a delicacy, even the fresh water ones. Clean em right and they are as good as stripers, which if you dont clean right are worse than trout[/QUOTE]

They call those Red Fish down in Lousiana don't they.
Maybe a slithtly different type of Drum but a drum none the less. they don't like to hear that down there though.

Gar was my first thought.
Many times gar will leave teeth marks that look like long scrapes and they will wonder off with the bait if you fed them line and I don't remember having gar kill the bait 100% of the time. I saw some fish swiriling on the surface in the area and it was not gar. I dodn't think it was carp but sort of the color of carp more than gar and now that I think about it could have been drum.