Barkley 4/22--4/24 report

[Cheese]

We were on KY Lake 4/18 - 4/23. We had to work pretty hard for what we caught. Since we had awesome trips the past few years, I guess we were due.

Tues I only had 1 keeper. The other days I had 4 or 5 keepers. Never got a limit. Never got anything over 4.5 lbs.
We caught very few in the flowers. We got the vast majority on lead in banks and points in about 4' of water on a lizard. I even had two sauger, one drum, 2 smallmouth, and a catfish on the lizard.

I have never seen conditions look better. It was very frustrating.

[swimjigboy]

On Barkley still. Fish 3 days in north Barkley and terrible! All largemouth 0,6,10,15,10 is was what we got the 1st 5 days. Today Tuesday we got first limit best 3 fish 3.2, 3.4, 5.3
What a crazy grind! Don't understand! So confused! Still fighting!
P.S. And everyone keeps saying lizards and I can't buy a bite on a lizard! Crawled, dragged, reeled and dead sticked. Nothing! Every size shape and color. Nothing!

[Cheese]

On Barkley still. Fish 3 days in north Barkley and terrible! All largemouth 0,6,10,15,10 is was what we got the 1st 5 days. Today Tuesday we got first limit best 3 fish 3.2, 3.4, 5.3
What a crazy grind! Don't understand! So confused! Still fighting!
P.S. And everyone keeps saying lizards and I can't buy a bite on a lizard! Crawled, dragged, reeled and dead sticked. Nothing! Every size shape and color. Nothing!

Almost every fish on a lizard was a Zoom Magnum in pumpkin with a chartreuse tail or watermelon seed. Drag it as slow as your mind can tolerate. Super boring way to fish.

[GeoFisher]

Almost every fish on a lizard was a Zoom Magnum in pumpkin with a chartreuse tail or watermelon seed. Drag it as slow as your mind can tolerate. Super boring way to fish.

Yep, except zoom green pumpkin /purplel or green pumpkin/red.

and 6 inch lizard or brushhog, or superhog.

Later,

Geo

[The Legend]

The struggle is real! We fished Kentucky 2 days last week and managed a limit both days. When I say limit I mean 15" fish on the nose! Couldn't find quality or or quantity. Just had to grind it out all day and look for scattered fish mostly. Did find a couple pockets that we managed to pull 4 or 5 fish out of, but elsewise, if you managed to catch one fish somewhere, you might as well move.

[outdoorsman_33]

Fished Barkley on the 8th and only caught a few fish. Moved over to KY lake on the 9th and did much better. Still tough ended up with about 25 fish mostly caught on green watermelon zoom shakey heads fished really slow. Did manage to catch one off of the bed on the 9th. Fish Ky lake again on the 10th. Found a few spots that would hold a few fish. Many of our fish were in 10 ft of water but that was when we had a major cold front come through. They were ready to move up though. I would be fishing green pumpkin lizards. A little old but I hope that this information helps.