Best White Bass Fishing???

[DavidPT40]

The only time I've ever seen the hybrids go into a feeding frenzy is as a front moves through. They bite while it rains too. But as soon as it stops raining, they stop biting.

If you put in at the main boat ramp( Settlers Trace), take a right where the lake forks. This will take you past the dam. The lake will then fork again. Take the left fork. Follow this until you find an old abandoned boat ramp that has no road leading to it. This area will have some buoys saying "No wake". The fishing here is great. The whole cove has massive schools of shad. In the spring when the shad have produced fry is the best time to catch the hybrid bass. The bass feed on the shad fry.

[artcarney_agr]

Kentucky Lake and Barkley have always had an excellent population of both whites and yellows. I used to fish for whites all the time in the summer and fall, mostly on Barkley Lake. The flats near the canal on the Barkley side were always good, and along those islands as well. The flat around the island in the main channel near Buzzard Rock was also a hot spot of mine. Another good one is the Ashland Oil barge terminal near Buzzard Rock that has a ledge by it that comes from about 40 or 50 ft up to about 10, and the whites would load up on it chasing shad. Even the mouth of Buzzard Rock holds them during the summer and fall, around the rip rap and the points at the entrance. The jumps used to be phenomenal, but have declined a little over the years, or at least it seems that way to me. It always seemed that the hotter the temperature, the more you would catch. This past fall was one of the better falls for the whites and yellows that I can recall...I think I caught more on a jerkbait and a shad rap than anything else!

I've heard good reports of whites on Taylorsville, but haven't ever gone after'em there...yet...

[raincheck]

Nolin lake is good when they are on the jump and its a blast.

[mhall]

Kentucky Lake and Barkley have always had an excellent population of both whites and yellows. I used to fish for whites all the time in the summer and fall, mostly on Barkley Lake. The flats near the canal on the Barkley side were always good, and along those islands as well. The flat around the island in the main channel near Buzzard Rock was also a hot spot of mine. Another good one is the Ashland Oil barge terminal near Buzzard Rock that has a ledge by it that comes from about 40 or 50 ft up to about 10, and the whites would load up on it chasing shad. Even the mouth of Buzzard Rock holds them during the summer and fall, around the rip rap and the points at the entrance. The jumps used to be phenomenal, but have declined a little over the years, or at least it seems that way to me. It always seemed that the hotter the temperature, the more you would catch. This past fall was one of the better falls for the whites and yellows that I can recall...I think I caught more on a jerkbait and a shad rap than anything else!

I've heard good reports of whites on Taylorsville, but haven't ever gone after'em there...yet...

Thanks Art you just brought back a good memory for me about Buzzard Rock. Me and a buddy Tommy Walker absolutely whacked'em in the mouth of that canal inlet and in the canal itself leading back to the marina one weekend. Bass I'm talking about. We would get up before daylight and not even start the big engine, just troll out there and get'em. We would stand around and look stupid when a boat would motor out by us leaving the canal at it's pretty tight through there. When they would clear sight we would go back to catching. Had about a four pounder on and here come a boat, Tommy says hold your rod down and just act like you don't have one on. I did and still caught the fish, LOL. Between Saturday and Sunday morning we caught probably 50 plus bass with alot of keeper size and several over 4 lb's. I'll never forget that, it was really cool, I bet we didn't burn 5 dollars worth of gasoline that whole weekend.

[Bassky]

Ohio River has some excellent white bass fishing. This past fall I was catching 1-3lbers below Meldahl Dam like crazy. Catching them on jigs, crankbaits, hard jerkbaits. Plus you have hybrids up to 12 lbs and stripers up to 20 lbs. My biggest hybrid is around 9 lbs. But you can catch white bass in huge numbers in spring and fall. I have caught over 200 at times in a couple of hours.
Bassky

[RICHYD4U]

Some Great Info Guys....i Really Appreciate It! I Definetly Have A List Of Spots I Have To Try This Year! I'm Bound To Get Into Some Whites! Thanks!

[artcarney_agr]

Thanks Art you just brought back a good memory for me about Buzzard Rock. Me and a buddy Tommy Walker absolutely whacked'em in the mouth of that canal inlet and in the canal itself leading back to the marina one weekend. Bass I'm talking about. We would get up before daylight and not even start the big engine, just troll out there and get'em. We would stand around and look stupid when a boat would motor out by us leaving the canal at it's pretty tight through there. When they would clear sight we would go back to catching. Had about a four pounder on and here come a boat, Tommy says hold your rod down and just act like you don't have one on. I did and still caught the fish, LOL. Between Saturday and Sunday morning we caught probably 50 plus bass with alot of keeper size and several over 4 lb's. I'll never forget that, it was really cool, I bet we didn't burn 5 dollars worth of gasoline that whole weekend.

Ha ha ha! I can tell you plenty of stories similar to that, all in the same area. When I was a kid, my family had a very small houseboat docked at Buzzard Rock, back when it was still a quiet mom and pop marina when Greg and Michelle and Mike ran it. After a good long while of me spending every effort to convince my parents that we needed a fishing boat, we bought an aluminum fishing boat when I was ten. I learned how to use the big motor, and the trolling motor, and could go anywhere I wanted solo, except on the big lake...I had to stay there in the bay. I learned every nook and cranny in that bay, and have caught some really nice fish in there over the years. The mouth was probably my favorite place to fish. The summertime meant a good white bass bite, and the occasional monster largemouth on a topwater. Fall was always my favorite because I could really whack'em on that shallow rock point at the mouth with a fluke! As I got older, I was finally allowed to venture out onto the big lake solo, and I fished Kuttawa a lot, the main lake islands near Buzzard, and the Ashland Oil barge terminal. Those are still some great areas to fish and I have considered them my go-to places now for 15 years. Okay, I'm done reminiscing.