Quote Originally Posted by davidsa View Post
I must be doing something wrong. I've never caught a 6lber out of KYL or Barkley. Had a few break free that I thought were 6+ potential. Caught tons of 4's and 5's but the delier has not let me do better then that.

Any pattern you find getting the big one?

Congrats on the nice fish.
Don't feel bad about not catching any bigger than 5 for my biggest is 6-1 and that was just caught last Monday. I have fished both lakes for 3 years both shallow in the spring and deep ledges and humps in the summer plus night fished Ky to nothing over 6 until that one fish and then it took "The Champ" to put me on that fish. Some people just catch bigger fish than others. I have caught more than my share of Smallies over 5 plus 3 of them over 6, grant it, I fish for them more than Greenfish, but thought I would at least have caught a couple more over 6 by now. Had my chances at them for I know of 3 different fish that I had hooked in the buck brush that were over 7 but always managed to get off or break off, plus one HUGE monster that blew up on my buzzbait on North Barkley 2 years ago and knocked it 3 feet in the air and all I got was the memory of seeing this beast come half way out of the water and catch air. Keep chunkin where the bigguns live and it will happen. I know skill plays a large part in it but just like other forms of life LUCK plays a part as well.