Cedar Creek hp vs electric motor

[joeyblueblood]

i agree that something has to be done...but TM only is definetly NOT the answer. yes, there are 3 ramps but many times i have fished from the dam to the back of cowan and over to the bridge. could not do that with a TM.
i like the last posters idea,but there are no perfect answers. i have always thought that the lake should have been larger to accomendate the traffic.
but please no TM only

[Bonefish]

My home town is Stanford, Ky. As a kid I fished the Dix between Stanford and Lancaster and Hanging Fork between Stanford and Danville. In 50's and 60's this river and stream were filled with good fish, but as pollution increased the fish numbers dropped drastically. The Hanging Fork was filled with good SM in those years, and then the derailment occured sometime in the 60's which allowed oil to pill into the stream and it killed everything down to the Dix. The stream was never restocked so Hanging Fork never recovered. That derailment was never reported so very few knew about except the land owners in that area.

I have said all of that to say this. When the news to build a trophy bass lake between Stanford and Crab Orchard, I was excited because never had there been such plans before made to have a special project with prospects of trophy bass available, especially in this area. But it did not take long after it was build and stock to see the hand writting on the wall. When they did not place motor restrictions on this small lake, it was only time when the lake would become just an ordinary lake like Wilgreen, Cornith or Beaver. When the fish can not come to the bank to feed, lay their eggs, or the fishmen can not top-water the mossbeds at dark without being washed into the shore, it becomes a frustrating lake to fish. For that reason after three fishing trips a year ago, I have stopped fishing the lake because I fish for relaxation, and the fact of being thrown about my boat throughout a day's fishing is not the way I want to fish and I don't care how big the bass will get in this lake. Until a restriction of speed is place on this lake, I will not return, and I have a year's start on that promise.

[SuperSprint007]

Wilgreen is idle only, does that solve the number of boats? NO it is fished as hard as cedar creek. if you want a calm day and no wake, go find yourself a pond. Unless there is an accident caused by running I could not see them changing the lake restrictions, and hope they would not change them.

With regard to the trees, it's probably better to navigate through them with the trolling motor than the outboard.

WOW, that is brillint how long did it take you to figure out that one....

[Bonefish]

I have no problem talking to my fishing neighbor while we fish, but I do have a problem talking to the bottom of his/her boat or over his/her head half the time.

[Todd2]

I can see both sides of the coin on this one. I've haven't fished this lake near as much as some of you guys but I have been there a dozen or so times. I grew up about a mile from where the lake is now, back when it was just a creek and I was catching rock bass down at the old rr bridge. But I live alot closer to T-ville now so I usually end up over there. So anyone who fishes T-ville in the summer gets use to drive by wakes that knock you out of your boat. I've never had that problem at CC. If anything, and I think somebody else has already said this, I would leave the main lake alone and start a no wake zone somewhere around the tracks and into the main creeks. Just my 2 cents, which probably ain't worth that, LOL...

[worm1]

I can see both sides of the coin on this one. I've haven't fished this lake near as much as some of you guys but I have been there a dozen or so times. I grew up about a mile from where the lake is now, back when it was just a creek and I was catching rock bass down at the old rr bridge. But I live alot closer to T-ville now so I usually end up over there. So anyone who fishes T-ville in the summer gets use to drive by wakes that knock you out of your boat. I've never had that problem at CC. If anything, and I think somebody else has already said this, I would leave the main lake alone and start a no wake zone somewhere around the tracks and into the main creeks. Just my 2 cents, which probably ain't worth that, LOL...

You hit the nail on the head!! Last time I was there I was fishing the tracks and several people approached on plane then dropped down and crused by making 2-3 foot wake, reminding me of T-ville, when it would have been better on us both of us if they stayed on plane. I'm all for no wake on the whole lake but 100 yards from the tracks on back would be best. JMHO

[know1]

WOW, that is brillint how long did it take you to figure out that one....

Not long at all. I was just directing that to the previous poster who seemed to suggest that it was better to navigate through the trees using the motor.