positives of cumberland

[apb]

... wasn't the trophy striper and walleye kill on norris related to a similar situation cumberland is going through a few years back? ....

Lots of summer rain, heated up the upper levels. They dropped the lake pulling cold water from the bottom. Big stripers had nowhere to go. Pretty much all of the stripers over 20# died. Thats the cliff note version.

Andrew

[mhall]

If you guys want to GPS points, winter is the time to do it. They usually have the lake down 30 anyway. Plenty of structure to see at that level that would hold a bass or three most times of the year.

As far as the "Ohio Navy", I'm willing to bet that half of that navy is local KY folks and they won't be going anywhere.

Andrew

Andrew you make a good point but don't be fooled. There are camping communities down there that are 75 to 90% Ohio residents. My mother and father in law had a camp in Timber Point for a few years. You know where it is on the right just before you get to Jamestown Marina's first entrance. The camp a couple of cook out get togethers in their covered pavilion where most of the camp people came. Now I'm talking well over a hundred people showed up with lots that didn't. It was over an hour before I actually met somebody new form Kentucky. Take a wild guess where 60 to 70% of that camp hailed from?? I've got a hunting buddy that comes down every year from Columbus Ohio and we joke about this together all the time. He jokes and say's half of the state that boats comes to the big C. He has several friends that drive from Columbus every weekend during the warm months to the lake. That's a seven hour trip or more with a boat. Same amount of people and alot less lake it's going to get real interesting for sure.