Lake Cumberland

[Duayne]

No jumps this morning. Got three hits really fast on shallow running baits and landed one. Fish moved through fast and had to change up. Got another on a 42 ft down rod on a soft gravel point in a pocket. Went over two small schools and barely got sniffed. Didn't even see anything on the graph when the last fish hit. If what you are doing isn't working any longer, stop doing it and do something else LOL.

[nitro929]

Thanks for the report. There is not much chatter going on about lake cumberland. Haven't seen a updated fishing report from any of the guides since mid October. Just curious what's the current water temp the corpsame Web site still has not updated from the 7th.

[Duayne]

Many of the guides take off November to hunt so my info and anyone else the chimes in is probably going to have to do. ha! Water temp is 65 which is still warm for this time of year. My guess is it will catch up quick this weekend.

[kstonich]

Monday nothing but short fish, Tuesday went up another and caught fish all day long finished my limit at 330 and went home. Was up a creek about 3/4 miles, just idled around till I saw some fish. Pulled shiners all day from 20f to 40ft deep. Had never done it before so I had fun, I only use light tackle 12lb test med action rods so it was real fun.

Unfortunately I saw no jumps either day, I normally find some jumps in October but not with this weather water was 66 degrees.

[nitro929]

Well I made it down Friday and Sat, Caught 7 Total Stripers 4 were keepers. They came up on the bank early and late. nothing after sun up. Went bass fishing thru the day and caught some nice large and smallmouth on topwater but that quit saturday when the clouds broke. Cant wait to get back.

[nitro929]

Water temp was 60 to 61. Clear toward the mouth of the creek had more color in the back.

[jcb]

Scattered but quality smallmouth past couple days for some friends of mine using shiners primarily on main lake points/bluffs.

[Duayne]

Last day I fished was the 24th. Schooler fish moved into the last third of the creek and were stacked up pretty good in decent schools. Channel depth of 45-55 ft. School depth varied but the fish came on 40 ft and 25 ft down rods. Fish still didn't want to bite hard while low but we'd get one for every school we went over. Active fish would come up higher. I had one yank a bucktail rig right out of my hand after they came up close to the boat.

If anyone catches one that's attached to a Johnny Morris bait caster and a bass pro 7ft green rod, it's mine.

Before that we were getting onesy with the better fish 25 ft deep on down rods and planer board rods. Found schools moving really fast but they wouldn't hit very well. I guess they had some place they needed to be other than on the end of our line. Over all a great trip aside from losing the rig. I do have the story...