cumberland Walleye Smallmouth

[motalot]

Will be staying clost to Bronston.

I figure Walleye and Smallmouth are my best options. Anyone fish this area. Can you help me out with some techniques or what kind of structure I should fish? Any help is deeply appreciated.

[Lundman]

I fished the PWT ( Professional Walleye Trail ) exactly 1 year ago to the day on Cumberland. All our fish came on bottom bouncers and spinner rigs with crawlers in Fishing Creek in 12 to 15 of water, about 1mph. Bring alot of crawlers (bluegills will drive you crazy) and alot of rigs (snags). I hope this helps. Good luck.

[fishincreek]

Fished midlake M, T, and Weds nites. Shad up about 2 and walleyes in them shortly thereafter(very little striper activity). The only bait I could get them to hit was a jointed Redfin(and I tried everything else!!!). Just had to work the bait slowly. Sometimes they would pop it after a couple of reel cranks, other times half way back to the boat. Would have loved to boat every fish that busted my plug. Biggest walleye was 4lbs 6oz, but had a really NICE one on..

[charlie1]

Some of the guys may get sick of me posting it, but if you want to get the walleye - especially the really big ones - fish between 2 a.m. and first light. Find shad working on points or in the backs of coves, preferably close to flooded timber (standing) and weeds. Cast as close to the bank as possible, parralel it if you can. Two feet is NOT too shallow. The jointed redfin the other fellow mentioned is a great plug worked v-e-r-r-y slowly on top and just subsurface. Reel it just fast enough to make it start wiggling and hang on. They will blow up on it and miss a lot. I was out one night and counted 55 blow-ups. If for some reason they are not hitting on top, try cranking a suspending Husky Jerk or Rogue (the big ones!) very, very slowly and throw a twitch in every 2 or 3 cranks. You WILL catch fish. Good luck and let me know how you do.

[SSKY]

The daytime walleyes are where they always are at this time year, 20 to 25 feet as of today for the bigger fish in the 20 to 24 inch range. I would have thought the PWT dudes would have done much better than they did. The whole tournament thing was poor for what they caught I doubt they will be back.

[motalot]

I was told rocky points spinner and night crawler during the day. Kind of bottom bouncing and jigging for Walleyes?

Everyone told me they are tough to catch.

[SSKY]

Jigging?

[dcbasser]

I assume he is talking about jigging spoons under lights. Tried it tonight only caught two little stripes. Shad never pulled up until well after midnight.

[motalot]

would you fish the same way during the day?

[motalot]

How did you fish your bottom bouncers? Trolling real slow would seem to snag quite a bit?

[SSKY]

Fished today from 2pm till 630 pm. Got 5 from 18inch to 25 inches on the what i would call the sycamore bluffs,steep banks with a shelf at around 20 feet around 10 yards off the bank where there were trees,sycamores growing in the water. Three way with crawlers. I have learned a litle tip for the last few trips if you are using the three way and a fish hits and pulls off give it full slack for about 10 feet and them pull it again, it seems once they get the taste of the worm they will eat it about 70% of the time.

[SSKY]

Also, three of the fish today caught at depth floated belly up quickly in the livewell which usually means they were deep all day and night.