Cumberland River

[Lowerider]

What are you fishing for? I was down there a couple weeks ago when the conditions were similar to how they are now. There were like 9 of us that did a float trip from the dam to rock house. I was in a 16 ft boat the others in tubes and canoes. We caught alot of fish. Let me know what type of fishing you plan on doing and Ill let you know what worked for us, we caught like 7 or 8 different species of fish.

You got me curious... I can think of the following:

bows
browns
whites
eyes
sauger
striper? - that would be some serious fun in a float tube.
skipjack?

[BurleyDog]

You got me curious... I can think of the following:

bows
browns
whites
eyes
sauger
striper? - that would be some serious fun in a float tube.
skipjack?

I have caught all of the above on the C-Land river in one day. . . from a canoe

[RICHYD4U]

Don't forget Carp!

-Rich

[Lowerider]

Don't forget Carp!

-Rich

I'll never forget the trip I mistakenly took a giant school of spawning carp as a school of striper. I about wet myself coming down river thinking I was headed for PAYDAY. They were in a run exploding everywhere and when 3 to 4 of them stick together like they do they look like one giant 50+ pound fish under the water. Talk about going from Happy to SAD real quick...lol.

Aside from all the fish already listed in this post I can add smallmouth to the list. A 2.5 pounder ate a 10 inch sucker I was pulling on a board down around Cloyds Landing a few years back. I've never caught crappie/largemouth/catfish out of the river before. I think the warmer water brings up all kinds of species.

[troutcrazy]

We took a guy who asked are there any largemouth in the CR? I said..."No". First fish he caught was a largemouth. So my large mouth was full of foot!

[BurleyDog]

It was tough out on the ol Cumberland this weekend. Floated from the dam to Winfreys Ferry (about 18 miles I think). I caught 40 trout and my two friends caught 20 each. The biggest of the day was a 19" brown that was pretty fat.

Did best on fly fishing gear, especially zebra midges.

Also caught a bonus big ol 14 inch crappie.

[troutcrazy]

It was tough out on the ol Cumberland this weekend. Floated from the dam to Winfreys Ferry (about 18 miles I think). I caught 40 trout and my two friends caught 20 each. The biggest of the day was a 19" brown that was pretty fat.

Did best on fly fishing gear, especially zebra midges.

Also caught a bonus big ol 14 inch crappie.

That's a little over 4 per mile...that's not too bad

[GeoFisher]

It was tough out on the ol Cumberland this weekend. Floated from the dam to Winfreys Ferry (about 18 miles I think). I caught 40 trout and my two friends caught 20 each. The biggest of the day was a 19" brown that was pretty fat.

Did best on fly fishing gear, especially zebra midges.

Also caught a bonus big ol 14 inch crappie.

If you had to.......could you paddle back up the ole river?

Later,

Geo

[flyfish]

80 trout is nothing to complain about!

[BurleyDog]

Not complaining about 80 trout. But I have had days of over 80 per person.

No way could you paddle up it in my opinion. Too swift and too far, even for a two mile stretch.

I used Julio's shuttle service and have no complaints.

[GeoFisher]

Not complaining about 80 trout. But I have had days of over 80 per person.

No way could you paddle up it in my opinion. Too swift and too far, even for a two mile stretch.

I used Julio's shuttle service and have no complaints.

Do you have contact info for Julio's.

Thanks,

Geo

[RICHYD4U]

Yeah, I'm interested in that Julio's transport as well. Always needed a way to float in my canoe, just didn't want to paddle all the way back up stream! This would work great!

-Rich