Lake Cumberland at night?

[YakNinja]

I'm planning on going to Cumberland tomorrow for some trout fishing during the day and hopefully trolling or jigging at night over in the lake. Anyone got some pointers for night fishing at Cumberland? Anybody catching walleye or stripers at night?

[stripernut1]

im going to go out on a limb here and predict you arent going to get a lot of "accurate info" on the walleye....its like asking "where can i get a 100 lbs of free ribeyes" lol.

as far as the stripers.....pm sent

[YakNinja]

im going to go out on a limb here and predict you arent going to get a lot of "accurate info" on the walleye....its like asking "where can i get a 100 lbs of free ribeyes" lol.

as far as the stripers.....pm sent

Thanks for the message. I don't understand why people are so hush hush over walleye. Up north they are a dime a dozen but down here its a like their prehistoric species and never heard of or talked about.

[olgreenboat]

Thanks for the message. I don't understand why people are so hush hush over walleye. Up north they are a dime a dozen but down here its a like their prehistoric species and never heard of or talked about.

Walleye and sauger are the filet mignon of all fish in this state . Best advice would be find a game warden down there and ask him/her they know were the best spots are and the baits to use .. I myself have no idea were to find such fish in Cumberland but if i was a betting man i would say that after the big die off of stripers down there i bet there is some big fish coming on..

[peter]

Real nice walleye were frequently caught at night in the spring and early summer casting the banks for stripes at night before the lake was lowered for the dam work. Four to five pounds was common. There were some big walleye kills too in the later years of the dam work. They seem to be coming back a bit in size and numbers from what I have heard from the night striper fisherman.

Off thread topic but here is something on daytime walleye. Maybe somebody that knows something will chime in...and confirm, add to or correct.

I have only talked to three people that actually go out and walleye fish in the day. They were trolling crank baits at 10'-20'. One guy that I talked to that I did not know said he was catching them trolling in early afternoon and it was real hot out. I just don't think many folks fish for them and those that do may have been having a heyday in the past....so that is a total guess/conjecture as to the silence.

Let's make that four people. Just remembered I actually went walleye fishing in the day with a guy that was a good friend of and went walleye fishing with a very well known smallmouth fisherman that lived near Dale Hollow that had been getting into walleye fishing for a few years.

What they were doing and he showed me was:

Pull Eire Dearies on the bottom on main lake flats at 20' very very slow with the trolling motor. Look for the small variations on the bottom like a six inch drop off/ledge . We used night crawlers and he had all those colored beads on the rig. What those beads were for I could not understand. Clicking noise? The depth to fish could vary over a period of days but the depth was very important. This is from memory from at least ten years ago.

He had also been to Lake Erie with this fellow and I went up there with him. We did the exact same thing there. In Lake Erie the 20' water can go on forever and the bottom is smooth and flat. At LC there is not much flat bottom at that depth so staying on that sweet spot depth could be tedious. Now, the bottom at that depth may be covered with trees and bushes on areas. There were only stumps then. Should be easy to determine with a good graph and down scan may be especially helpful in finding an area where there there are fewer snags.

That's every thing I know about walleye fishin which is not much. For several years I have been wanting to get into it but the stripers are so much more fun to catch and I can't find the time being a weekender.

[stripernut1]

Thanks for the message. I don't understand why people are so hush hush over walleye. Up north they are a dime a dozen but down here its a like their prehistoric species and never heard of or talked about.

unfortunately you answered your own question...."up north they are a dime a dozen"....in cumberland they are not rare...but they sure arent a dime a dozen...and most of the time (i said most of the time) they are alot of hard work and are hard to come by on a regular basis. the couple of guys that i know that target them are very good at what they do, they have 30 years of hard work invested in their craft and they aint sharing a thing. when smoeone asks who, what where, when, how deep , on what....they just smile and wish you good luck and keep trying. both of these elderly gentlemen are as kind hearted as anyone youll ever meet...you just aint gettin no walleye info lol.

[Les Young]

on banks whre boat traffic has muddied them up is how we use to catch a bunch at times during the later part of the day. At night you can also put out a floating or led light to draw the bait fish & with a treble hook below the sinker work it up through the bait fish with a jerk until you hook one & then drop it down to the very bottom edge of the light or if shallow enough drop it too the bottom & wait for a big walleye to grab it. I've been in the boat several times with my buddy doing this & he's always caught them in this way. Lots of other nice fish will be caught a lot of times doing this including Smallmouth & Striper & use to catch Trout too when they stocked them in the lake years ago. Good luck & let us know if you try it & how it went.

[YakNinja]

I ended up catching 4 stripers trolling down the bank at by the ramp. I thought I was in a good place when I seen two striper boats come to my side and cut me off with their boards and 6 poles out. The biggest being 24in. I caught them on swim baits and model A bomber. But again no walleye. They were quite a few boats at the dam around 12am going back up in a cove the opposite side of the ramp. They must have known something I didn't.

[stripernut1]

sounds like they knew where the houseboat with all the cold beer was

[YakNinja]

Their was a huge houseboat out by the dam. Sounds like you might have been down there Stripernut? I just wished I didn't live 2 hours away. By the time I got off work and drove down I was exhausted. I lasted till about 1am.

[rooster]

We are pulling bottom bouncers(2 OZ.) with a spinner rig (pink or chartruece blade) about 4 foot behind at about .8 mph on the north bank between roenna and low gap in 30 to 32 feet of water. Take extra rigs because it is very snaggy and the catfish are murder on rigs.

[sglass]

not sure about walleye but a buddy of mine is BURNING up big bass. his wife caught 2 at the same time about 15 inches long off a rattle trap. He posts pics on FB killing me every day. He just retired and lives on the lake and has found a good stretch of bank. Every trip has produced smallies largemouth and spots 3 to 5lbs. The lake is def back!! He did catch a eye on a crankbait about 18 inches long a few weeks ago. Said he is fishing 30 feet of water but who knows

Shawn