KYL/Barkley- Water temps when big bass start to get active?

[davidsa]

All-

Does a specific water temp. at KYL/Barkley trigger the bigger fish to start to move back in the bays or get active on main points??

I'm thinking of fishing a few days around March 5th and am thinking about basing the trip on water temps. and water clarity. I have been out a few years in early March and mark few to no fish outside of the channel. In these cases, the bite was confined to a small window mid-day or not at all.


Thanks for the thoughts!

[SlopFishin]

Now!

[DaveR]

I would say the majority of the big fish will be on main points and maybe secondary points if 20 feet is nearby on the first week of March. I have caught more fish just a few weeks later. But I know folks catch them when the water gets 46-47. Try some rattletraps, jerkbaits, and jigs. My 2 cents

[slowride]

The thing is at ken/bark lakes it's in the midwest so anything could happen. Last year was the flood, year before record breaking heat wave. March is a hard month to plan a trip around. However if it were me i think i would fish around the 3rd week of march.

[buzzking]

Water level and day length is more important than temp. Right now with the days getting longer and the lake still at winter the first round (big fat sows) should be staged up in the mouths on the bars and deeper rocky points. As soon as the lake starts coming up and we don't get a monster front they will be on the move to the back. As soon as they move off the first staging areas, the second round (smaller but still decent) should move up to where they are leaving.