Reply With QuoteBob, I have seen exactly what you described on my last 4 trips to Cumberland. I think the water temp is still a little warm, but should be in better shape after the front this week. Better fishing is on the way.
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Launched from Jamestown Ramp at 6 am on Friday morning. Bass Pros was out of shiners, and I go lucky getting the last 1/4 pound at Adams BP, but the shiners were good sized and healthy. Jamestown Ramp is still easy to use, one lane, but well marked.
On the way out, idled the length of the Jamestown Dock, passed the shad lights folks had out, and saw no shad flipping, and no schools of bait marking up. Few fish marking up close to the docks. So headed up into the back half of Pumpkin Creek, put out a light, and tried to catch bait. Bait was hard to come by, and 10 throws of teh net in 20 foot of water gained me just 2 dozen threadfins, but there were fair sized at 4-5 inches, and added to the few shiners I had.
First Planner board set was just south of the island in Lilly Creek. 2 Guide boats in the are also. Trolled live bait at depths from surface to 50 feet clean out to the mouth of Lilly with just 2 hits, both were just little tugs, then gone. Barely enough to make the planer dunk.
Next worked Caney from the first corner to the mouth of Wolfe, same board spread, no hits. No jumps seen, little bait marked. Went deeper up in Caney, clear up to where it ends, with no wake buoys just 200 feeet from the end of the creek no that the water is down. One thro of the cast net there at 2 pm netted 150 pieses of threadfin shad, and small gizzards. What a mess to sort thru, but got some good bait, and release the balance.
On the way out, at the Caney Creek Ramp (Left side headed south in Caney), saw some surface pops going on in teh back of the cove, and occassionally out at the no wake buoys at the area entering the ramp area. Zora spook worked, and 2.7 pound small mouth was landed. Good area to watch, as it borders deep water, and seems the smallies push bait up there.
Next bottom fished main lake, and saw guide boats doing the same. I went up from Wolfe, towards teh Springs, beached, and fished there. in 2 hours got 12 to 15 hits, but all turned out to be smallies, and or KY bass or cats. They huit shiners, and shad, live or dead. No real size to any of them, biggest smallie was 1.7 pound.
Shadowed the "STRIPERS DESTROYER NAVY" outside the mouth of Jamestown Marina from about 5 to sundown. I bet the Stripers if there felt like U-boats with all the active sonar pinging them. One small surface rucus at the point on the left side of the entrance to Jamestown, just before no wake buoys, and on your way into the marina. But the 2 boats there barely got to cast once before they dumped and dove and never came back up. The "DESTROYER NAVY" seemed to try to follow the fish down the walls toward Low (NO) Gap, but thru my binos, I saw lots of boats, lots of folks sitting down and no body casting. Ever seen the moving "Run Silent, Run Deep? These guys and boats looked like a pack of destroyer escorts running a silent pickett line. I don't think any more surface stuff happened. I broke from the Navy and checked first turns in Wolfe, Caney, Lilly, and walls up the right side of main lake to Harmony, then coves down the Springs side from Harmony to Wolfe. No jumps, no pops, and seemed like no other boats looking there.
Settled in and trolled live bait again from Lilly to Jamestown as dark came in, and did so till I reached the point at Jamestown Harbor entrance. Again, nada.
So, good trip to catch smallies, saw no jumps all day other tahn a couple boats attacking a point at Jamestown, bait can be had, but seemed to be much easier to get once sun was up in the back of the creeks rather than before the sun came up and under lights.
Gas in Russel Springs and Columbia was 3.09 a gallon, but only 2.89 at Jamestown Bass Pro.
Did anybody else do any good for Stripers, or are we still in that transition period with surface too warm for the jumps to really fire up.
I think for no on when I go, I'll leave a note here to say when I plan to hit the water, how long I'm staying, and will post my cell phone number. If you are down, and want to hear what I'm doing, just call, introduce yourself, and I'll share whatever is up. Be glad for info in return. I mean if we're going to team up on the Stripers and run sonar screeens to find them, we ought atleast have voice commo to coordinate the attack.
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Bob, I have seen exactly what you described on my last 4 trips to Cumberland. I think the water temp is still a little warm, but should be in better shape after the front this week. Better fishing is on the way.
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Andrew
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Yep, it has been tough going. I pulled boards all day last Sunday and got nothing. My Dad went down and fished Tuesday through Thursday before finally giving up. Say speaking of U-boats, some depth charges might be just what I need to bring up a big old striper.
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O.K. now I know why my tin can quit workinI'm at the lake now for the next ??? week's. I still monitor VHF 72 and have a cell also.
Andrew I need jigs, they dont wear out but I give them out to show how good they are.
Bob excellent report as alway's.
I can be found at Grider Hill, stop by and talk fishin anytime.
Dave.
Man, you floor me! I can not believe you remember that! Its been years since I wrote that. Makes me feel like a legend.......or more accurately a relic! Cheers my friend.Originally Posted by apb
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Andrew
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That Andrew is sharper than a set of Ginsu knives!
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Re: Cumberland Results-2 Nov 07
Bob, do you remember what the original post was about?
Think VHF radio. I also remember you're tin can and string reply.
I'm gonna have to start getting more sleep.For the life of me I can't remember the context that caused me to come up with the can and string thing. [email protected] for a copy if you bump into it in the archive. I bet if I read it again, I'll be able to tell you if I was drinking beer or burbon that night.
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Hey Bob,,buddy you been going too far from home to catch them stripers,,,fisheater and I have been killing them at the river. You and Elwood never did let me take you last yr. The size isn`t like cumberlands,,,well maybe ,,but the numbers is great and don`t cost a arm and a leg to go find them,,,plus the sauger as be out of this world,,,been eating high on the hog with them. But we`ve been getting alot of hybreds and stripes in the 4-10lb and in a 3 mph current they pull like a 30, but you`s catch 50-100 aday....and don`t have to look for them,,,and the warmwater discharges are starting to draw fish too,, i fish 1 the other night and caught over 50 stripes all small but had catfish,skipjack and even got 3 smallies up to 3 lbs,,,a buffet..LOL, but the bigger ones will be moving in when the water gets colder..
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I think it was one of those posts where several of us were going to be on the water the same weekend. Dave said something about what VHF channel and Bob came back with a line about not being all high tech like that, but he had a tin can and string rigged up, so call him on that. Or something to that effect. I think we've given him some grief over that several times over the last few years. Amazing that I can remember trivia like that, but forget where I put my beer several minutes agoBob, do you remember what the original post was about?
Think VHF radio. I also remember you're tin can and string reply.
Andrew
Yo onemore!
I be thinking about a trip this Monday coming up, as its vets day. I'll dump t pontoon in at Greenwood, fish the LGE discharge, then about mid morning head to the dam.
I got redfins, zora spooks, doll flies with curly tailes (Spro jigs) and was planning on bringing some night crawlers incase I can catch some herring, and some chicken to chunk with.
a. What else would I need to score some of them there stripes, maybe some of them there Walmart dead/packed shad?
b. best to bottom fish for them, chunk on a free line and let it drift with the current, or maybe hang a boobber about 5 foot up and let it drift that way.
I don't have any firm plans right now, will keep in touch if weather holds. Maybe we can meet at greenwood, you can join me and my buddy, and we can do a first trip on the purple Hurricane Bob pontoonie thingie. (Caution, I'm certified as a submarine skipper from many "dive, dive dive, bow down experiences chasing tugboats) Second disclaimer, I have a bad tendency of going too early, and coming back too late.
Cell is 270-735-7814, email to [email protected].
And don't be writing my phone number in any bathrooms, that's how I met my current wife.
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