KY/Barkley Report

[Fishin_4_Fun]

Dang, I wish my tough fishing days were this good.

[stockcars6]

I also found it very tough on Northern Barkley this weekend. Fished a 2 day tourney, only had 3 keepers until Sunday around 1:30, then we rolled into them. Fished the river channel with a silver spoon and found a mess of spotted bass. When's the fall transition going to start? Everything I caught was 12' or deeper.

[trentonc2000]

Took a break from painting the house this weekend and had a decent day on KY lake. Caught a 3 pounder on my 2nd cast and then caught a 4 pounder on the next one. Got into a school of hybrid stripers right after that and stayed with that until the topwater bite was done. I managed to catch short fish pretty much the rest of the day with one more that was 3 lbs. Pretty much fished flats with wood cover and a shallow crankbait. I did catch a few nice spots on a shakeyhead on some docks too.

[kc]

I think I made it sound better than it was. I caught an lot of really short fish in that count. I downsized my lures in that the shad the fish feeding on were really small and as a result most of the fish were 12" or smaller. I really didn't catch many over 14". When the better fish come up this time of year it can be far better.