I'd hit the big lakes.........KY and Barkley.. You always need to be mindful of the wind on those bodies, but you can definitely find some great water on both, without having to run the main lake.Originally Posted by Uwbadger1991
When I had a 17ft tracker, and the wind would get up. I'd run down the trace and hit a couple boat ramps in a day. Ginger, Sugar, Smith, Pisqua on KY , and then Demumbers, Nickel Branch, Champion Springs, Poplar Creek on the Barkley Side.
Poplar Creek and Champion Springs are not on the trace, but you get the idea.
You can fish a bay in half a day, and then pick another bay for the evening bite.
Depending on the time of year, you will find fish in different places.
* Early, EARLY spring, you may find some back ready to do their business. These will be the big dogs, and sometimes on the right day and right bait, you can catch a giant. If we get a week of solid warm weather in late Feb, early March, you're darned tootin, I will be at least trying a shallow red eye shad bite....
* A little later in spring where some are done and some are getting ready to start, and some are staging, you can have a ton of fun in those bays you can only trailer to. You will definitely have company though, because a lot of those "good" spring bays you can trailer to are also GREAT crappie bays, and sometimes they are "busy". NO matter, the crappie guys are usually fishing different water......Sometimes it is hard finding a parking spot though, but that is rare.
* Late spring.......this time you will also have a great time fishing in those bays, Odd are there are fish that are done and are hungry. They destroy baits. It can still be hard this time of year, because those up shallow are locked down, and they may be hard to catch, but move off a little, and catch those recovery fish. They will bite, and generally bite hard.
Man, I love KY and Barkley Lake.........
One other thing........you an almost always run on Barkley when you cannot run on KY. I was rarely locked in on Barkley on the north end when running my 17ft tracker. NOT that it cannot get bad and ugly there, but it usually is not as bad and not as ugly.
Good Luck.....
Later,
Geo
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