Best lake???

[Fishin is life]

Ky Lake or Lake Barkley and I'm basing that off of what you mentioned as your preferred species to target. I'm a redear nut myself and we're sniffing around Barkley for property right now. No way could I afford a place on the water, they're running 250 Grand and above but I could afford a place several miles off of the water and that would suit me fine.

I live in Southern Indiana across from Louisville and it's a three hour drive for us to Barkley, that's going 75mph. That lake has ruined me, it's catfish, crappie, bass and redear PARADISE!

I thought about Barren, Green and Rough but the deal breaker for me is that those lakes aren't redear lakes...just takes them off the map for me. Dale Hollow apparently has a thriving redear population and Cumberland just received redear fingerlings like three years ago so I'd expect them to take off in there too.

Im not a redear fisherman so take this for what its worth. Last year on Dale Hollow i was playing around with an underwater camera as we came up a drop onto a point. The camera is in the form of a bluegill. I couldnt figure out why i wasnt seeing any fish until i spun the camera. There were 1000s (im not exagerating) of redear staring at the camera. It was one of the most unbelievable sights ive ever seen. If id had a slip bobber and a nightcrawler theres no telling how many could have been caught. They were in roughly 20ft suspended off the side of the point

[Technonorb]

Thanks so much for all of the great and detailed feedback. I put Redear in my request as I love to catch them but where you find good Redear, there is usually good bluegill fishing and I can definetly live with that. Thanks again guys and if I can ever help you out... Don't hesitate to ask and hope to see you on the lake sometime!!! Tech