I'm done with Ky Lake

[Fishin_4_Fun]

I ran 51 miles all over the lake fishing drops, many which were proven in the past for good fish. Lost 2 nice bass but never boated a single fish. I did manage to salvage about 25 top water fish in a bay before dark with a couple of keepers.

The next day I fished barkley and caught well over 150 bass with 2 keepers within a couple of miles of the boat ramp. After 6 hours of exhaustive fishing those schooling fish, I moved to a drop at the mouth of a bay, and had 15 keepers hooked, boating 9 on the same spot. I could have anchored the boat and caught all these fish. They were on the same exact spot.

Seemed like I could do no wrong on Barkley, but couldn't do anything right on Ky.

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I'd rather be catchin! :7

[thebassman30]

Hey now....that could be considered blasphemy some days.

[Dave Stewart]

Welcome to ledge fishing.

[plowboy]

Wow, over 150 bass, thats a bass every 3-4 minutes.

[DJ]

Don't give up on Kentucky Lake... it holds some fine bass but does not give them up easily. Hook up with Dave Stewart one day during the week...you'll change your tune.

[Fishin_4_Fun]

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Jun-27-06 AT 07:49AM (EST)[/font][p]LOL, didn't keep an official count. Quite often the only time lapse was the time it took to reel one in, and get the bait back in the water. Had a couple of double hookups to boost the average, LOL. The best schooling fishing I've had in 30 years.

There was a BASS tourney guy nearby who couldn't believe the fish were biting like that. He was accusing me of catching the same fish 4 or 5 times, and joked that I needed to start naming them. I saw his amateur partner boat 6 keepers out of the back of the boat.

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I'd rather be catchin! :7

[Devils Horse]

For pure fun, only the rat bite at Guntersville in the fall rivals Barkley ledge fishing at the right time in June. Don't know about 150, but I've had some 70 fish days. My boat winds up looking like a plastic graveyard with dozens of tore up baits laying around on deck. Most ripped on one one side, then flipped over and fished till the other side is mangled.