Lake cumberland white bass?

[SAM_KY]

For what it's worth, the same thing happened at Herrington several years prior to them disappearing from Cumberland.

I think it was sometime back in the 80's.

It all happened in about the span of a year. A few whites were found floating here and there, but it was assumed that the majority of the die-off sank rather than floated up.

At any rate, they basically vanished.

they made a bit of a rebound and there are still some whites in Herrington, but nothing, not even close, like they were before die off.

SAM

[sparkie_212]

I know I am a little off topic here, but you guys talking about them whities sure brings back some good memories of me and my best friend at the age of around 13-15. Those were my best years of fishing, you know, just before I bought my first car, got my drivers liscence and all I had on my mind was chasing girls from that point on. But before that, my buddie and I fished anytime we were not in school in southeast Indiana. The white bass would run up Laughery Creek, a main tributary of the Ohio river, about 35 miles down river of Cincinnati. His dad would say "When the dogwoods bloom" the white bass were running. We had the perfect spot about 10 miles up that creek where the water would run about a foot deep kind of a rapid run. The right time we would catch them by the dozens and the ocasional largemouth. We used beetle spins to catch them there. that too was the late 70's early 80's. Will try to contact someone to see if they are still abundant, but if my memory is right it seems like they had fallen off the numbers.

[nightbasser]

Pretty sure i read a report that stated alewives could have played a lrge role in their demise! Anyways if someone has a contcat with doug stephens biologist for this region I would be interested to see what he has to say about the subject

[JoeB]

Doug retired this past year. John Williams is now the dist. biologist.