Went to Patoka tonight........

[Embrey]

aint a lot of grass left....probly 30% of what it was

[shane2480]

I fished rip rap all day. And to anyone who says there is not much grass left does not have good graphs. I graphed grass in 6+ feet of water all over the area that i fished.

[Embrey]

i didnt mean it was gone...just that it has went way down from what it was

[fishNnut]

Patoka has it's times for sure. August, unfortunatly is not usually a good time on any lake in this area. Even though I have yet to have a day bad enough fishing to go home saying I would have rather been at work.

But yes, it is not KY lake, but then again, I can probably send you to 8800 acres of KY lake that would leave you saying KY lake sure isn't Patoka. They are essentually two completely different types of systems and although a bass is a bass, the two lakes, IMO, fish completely different.

To me, Patoka doesn't fish like a "big lake" where the fish relate as much to the points, drops and humps. There are fish on them at times, but not like KY where you expect to catch one on every point/hump. I think a lot of it has to do with the movement of shad that you get in a river system as opposed to a system such as Patoka where current is mostly absent.

I fished 9 hours on KY the other day. First two were on fire followed by 5 that left me feeling like I had wasted a bunch of money on a boat, rods, lures..ect. The last two were almost as good as the first two and when I left I already couldn't wait till I was backing my boat in the water there again.

[SteveM4A1]

Patoka has it's times for sure. August, unfortunatly is not usually a good time on any lake in this area. Even though I have yet to have a day bad enough fishing to go home saying I would have rather been at work.

But yes, it is not KY lake, but then again, I can probably send you to 8800 acres of KY lake that would leave you saying KY lake sure isn't Patoka. They are essentually two completely different types of systems and although a bass is a bass, the two lakes, IMO, fish completely different.

To me, Patoka doesn't fish like a "big lake" where the fish relate as much to the points, drops and humps. There are fish on them at times, but not like KY where you expect to catch one on every point/hump. I think a lot of it has to do with the movement of shad that you get in a river system as opposed to a system such as Patoka where current is mostly absent.

I fished 9 hours on KY the other day. First two were on fire followed by 5 that left me feeling like I had wasted a bunch of money on a boat, rods, lures..ect. The last two were almost as good as the first two and when I left I already couldn't wait till I was backing my boat in the water there again.

Depending on the weather, I almost exclusively fish the points at patoka in the summer and am never disappointed.