kentucky lake

[likes2fish]

going to ky lake wed 12 sept anyone know if crappie are moving in shollow and where to head for decent bit. will be staying at pisgah bay. iny info would be greatly appreciated. thanks

[apextrail]

Don't know much about the crappie but the shallow water bass bite, especially grass, was pretty darn good this weekend.

[skeeterjames]

Don't know much about the crappie but the shallow water bass bite, especially grass, was pretty darn good this weekend.

was you on ky or barkley? how far south were you and was you on the main lake or back in the creeks.

[kc]

I don't know if this will help or not but I will share a couple of experiences from a few years back. About the same week end (mid-September) I was fishing the bays a little to the south of Pigsah with my boys. We would bass fish early and then as the sun got high and the bass went out to sea we would start throwing small crank baits and teny jigs mostly targeting bluegills. During this adventure we did catch some crappie shallow and I was able to do reproduce this at several spots. We would find them around wood (stumps or lay downs) pretty far back in the bays and always near the creek channel in say 4' to 10' of water. The thing was they were not big crappie but most of them would keep. Something to keep in mind. Since my boys are a little older I can't say I have tried that pattern again.

Another one to share. I love to night fish for bass on KY and again some time ago we were night fishing in late September and were absolutely blanking on our normal patterns of spinners and jigs. My partner wasn't feeling well and took a nap in the boat so I was killing time and trying to do something different. I figured since I wasn't catching them on the bottom maybe I needed something in between. I tied on an SR5 and started cranking -- paralleling banks and drops doing a lot of stop-start-jerk type cranking. It did help -- I caught a few bass but the surprising thing was the crappie I caught doing that. I didn't catch bunches but I had 8 or 10 slabs that hammered my crank. I even lost one at the boat that was one of the biggest crappie I have ever hooked. Flopped her off trying to swing her in and she had to in the 3 lb range. So I think if crappie are what you are after fishing after dark might be another angle to try.

kc

[likes2fish]

thans for the info. anyone ever catch any redear/bluegill in the fall of any size? have cought a few in the rock quary of fair size.

[apextrail]

I was on KY and fished north of the 68 bridge Concetrated on shallow pockets off the main lake and secondary pockets in the larger creeks.