Lake Cumberland "Jumps"

[peter]

"It's like chasing a rainbow"

Hello wizard, Dorothy and Gypsy fortune teller. "Somewhere" is right!


Ya just don't seem to get quite there and its often just a bit further than you can throw and they are gone just a little bit too soon.


....no intention of being negative but the reality I guess is...

Sorry but I have work intensified and fishing deprived.

[Duayne]

If you study them a while, you can usually see a pattern in the creeks. They come up here then go down. They come up over there, then go down. Then they may come up at the first location again. I watch for key locations and just hang out in the best one. It's nerve racking sitting here and watching them bust over there, but you have to develop a plan and stick to it. Good luck in the main lake.

Sometimes you CAN still get lucky. Last year, on the last day of fishing for 2014, my brother in law and I went out. We had some bait but not a lot and were just going to stay out an hour or so. We were marking but the fish were moving fast and not hitting bait. Next thing you know, we found out why. They were herding and came up about two cast away. We were able to move over to them and picked up four nice keepers in just a few minutes. Disclaimer that one of the fish came on a down rod as we drifted right in them and I wasn't making any sort of boat sound even with the trolling motor. They had the bait pinned in a pocket and just kept them there. So it is still possible. You just have to adjust how and where you fish for the jumps. This was the day before Thanksgiving and we found them pretty far back in the creek.