Nolin

[MagikSmallie]

Anyone have a general fishing report for Nolin?

[natebosox]

I will be down there this weekend. Hopefully fishing on Sunday. Will let you know what is going on when I get back. Maybe someone will post general water color or temp.

[winner88]

Water down at winter pool, temp high 40's to low 50's, color is good, fished Saturday and Sunday in tournaments, 6lbs won on Saturday 12lbs on Sunday catching a lot of small and slot size fish, larger ones are still deep haven't moved up yet, I fished from Briar Creek to Dog Creek.

[MagikSmallie]

Great report, thank you very much!!

[canepole]

Days Bass Pro Put a picture on their facebook page of Lee Johnson with 3 nice fish out of Nolin. A 7 and two over 6.

[jfw]

Heck yeah Canepole Debbie showed that pic on her phone before she posted it . We got 16 on Saturday but no real big ones , we were using cranks

[MagikSmallie]

Well fished Nolin on Friday and had a tournament on Sat. Friday was my first time on the lake. water was 19.5' below summer pool, warmest water I found was maybe 51. I fished channel banks and points. Caught several fish with a wiggle wart, jig, shaky head with three barely over 15". Saturday it turned cold and rainy. fished same pattern and between myself and my co-angler we caught probably 50+ fish. I have never seen so many 13-14" fish in my life, lake is loaded with them!!! any way we weighed in 3 keepers apiece and they weighed basically nothing....fish were skinny! one guy who I assume won it (didn't stick around long enough to see) weighed in over 18lbs. word is he was fishing up by the dam, and possibly using an A-Rig. his big fish went 6-11. thanks for the help you guys gave me. on a side note nolin seems to be a really good bass lake especially once the lake comes up and warms up, I'd go back!

[Havacman]

friend of mine fished the BASS federation tournament sat won it with close to 19# had two over 5 one over 4 on alabama rig.

[vausoner]

There are a ton of bass on nolin. and can pretty much catch them anywhere. Finding the big ones is the hard part. If you dont fish the lake a lot its kinda touch for a decent limit.

[MagikSmallie]

friend of mine fished the BASS federation tournament sat won it with close to 19# had two over 5 one over 4 on alabama rig.

Yup, same tournament as me. his big fish was just under 7 and he had several other "bigguns"!!

[SLP]

Well fished Nolin on Friday and had a tournament on Sat. Friday was my first time on the lake. water was 19.5' below summer pool, warmest water I found was maybe 51. I fished channel banks and points. Caught several fish with a wiggle wart, jig, shaky head with three barely over 15". Saturday it turned cold and rainy. fished same pattern and between myself and my co-angler we caught probably 50+ fish. I have never seen so many 13-14" fish in my life, lake is loaded with them!!! any way we weighed in 3 keepers apiece and they weighed basically nothing....fish were skinny! one guy who I assume won it (didn't stick around long enough to see) weighed in over 18lbs. word is he was fishing up by the dam, and possibly using an A-Rig. his big fish went 6-11. thanks for the help you guys gave me. on a side note nolin seems to be a really good bass lake especially once the lake comes up and warms up, I'd go back!

I caught a bass on Barren River Lake a couple of weeks ago that was 19 inches and only weighted about 3 lbs, (also skinny). I wonder if the extra cold winter attributes to this.

[Fishin is life]

I dont fish Nolin a ton but it seems a lot of the fish there are crazy skinny. Of the tournaments ive fished we usually have to go through 75-100 fish to catch a limit. Last year with the water in the bushes we didnt catch as many but had better quality. Had a limit and pulled up on a spot and i caught 7 fish in 8 casts, best 5 went almost 17lbs and my partner never made a cast as he was trying to cull as fast as i was catchin em. The lake has some decent fish, just hard to get through all the 13-14"ers to find em