10 + pounders in Kentucky where and how many

[plowboy]

Just wondering how many 10+ pound bass are caught in Kentucky lakes each year and which lakes did they come out of. If you know of a verified 10 lb fish taken from Kentucky waters in the last few years lets hear about it. Not ponds but lakes. Dave Stewart, how many 10 lb fish have you heard of out of Kentucky and Barkley? Not interested in ponds at this time just lakes. I know most of the largest bass come from ponds in this state most years. And on a different note what about Florida strain? Will they live here. Seems like I heard Tennessee tried stocking some. I know some pond owners that claim to have stocked Florida strain in Kentucky but I didn't figure they would live this far north.

[HoskiFishin]

The story about the 10.2 at rough was correct. After an afternoon on the pontoon with family, we came back in to our dock on Tules Creek. A guy trolled up to us in a bass boat and asked if we baited our dock or if we had put out any artificial cover. We told him no, and he said he was wondering because earlier that morning he had caught a 10lber right beside our dock on a red 6 inch worm, and that he had already taken it to the taxidermist. I caught one almost 5 that night off the dock on a black spinnerbait while my wife catfished. So I would have to guess that there is some truth to his story.

[EJHick]

Where is this dock you speaketh of?!?!?!

[rick1204]

There are usually a few 10'lber's caught at lake malone each year, mostly in the spring, but not as many as there use to be, fishing can be tough there.

[jfw]

I heard there was a 10.2 caught from Rough in Feb ...this came from a reliable source ....anyone else heard of this

[zx150]

I have never seen a 10 come out of Rough but I have seen some 8s. So it would not surprise me a bit.

[Danny]

Several years ago in a March tournament out of KY Dam, one of the guys caught a 10 lber. The guys putting on the tourney let the guy keep it so he could get it mounted. i wasn't crazy about that, but I had no say so in it.

Now I've not ever caught a 10 lber, so but I don't think I would want to keep it.

Danny

[gettingonefishin]

My 1st cousin caught a 10+ out of Ky Lake a few years ago and it was documented and a big story about it in the Lexington Herald Leader.

[Dave Stewart]

There have been plenty of 10lbs LM bass caught out of Ky/Barkley. A couple of 12's too that I remember seeing and reading about in the past few years.

[MsgMills]

Believe it or not but a guy I know caught a 10+ from McNeely Lake...

[MLTSPCS]

I had heard that a while back there was an electro-fishing survey done on McNeely and that they shocked up a fish around 14#. I heard that really got people fishing out there a lot and put a lot of pressure on that small lake. Does anyone know if what I was told is true. It came from a pretty reliable source, but you know how rumors can get started and spread like wildfire. Just wondering if anybody could recall that happening. I do know for a fact that a small park lake not too far from my house (Tom Wallace)has some really nice bass in it. I guess the stocking of rainbows has really helped the bass grow big. There are quite a few large carp, cats, bass, and 'gills but they are difficult to catch. The water is almost always really clear and it gets lots of fishing pressure, so the fish spook real easy.

[Stonewall2002]

Tom Wallace does have some nice bass in it. I was down there a few years back and cought three that went over 3# in the course of one afternon. Not to bad for the small drop of water that that lake is. It seems though that that lake is only productive at one very precise time of year. Most of the time the bass are inaccessable because you are limited to shoreline fishing,k often at strange angles.

I've heard several good things about McNeely. Most folks dont want to do the hiking to get to where the fish are at. Additionally most people paractice catch an release on the bass. This coupled with the amount of presure that this lake gets and it has produced a "smart" fish, a very easily soopked fish who have seen, and been cought on, practically every bait known to man. There are definately some good fish in there, but I doubt that any go even close to 10#. I'm sure that anything that has come out of there close to 7# has ended up on someones wall.

..... Great discussion and question I might add.

Keep on chuckin'