Heading for Lake Cumberland

[Mean Morone]

Fishing Lake Cumberland next week for stripers and smallies. We will be staying near the Jamestown ramp. Any good reports on stripers or smallies? We will be dropping down some Flitterbaits for smallies and tossing Gizz 3's or Gizz 4's for stripers. We might try some bottom fishing with live and cut bait if we can catch some shad.

[RICHYD4U]

I'll be going the week after that. I would also love any info that anyone is willing to share. Are the stripers still hanging out on the main lake, or have they started heading up the creeks yet?

Good luck down there and report back on how you guys do!

-Rich

[Trick Daddy]

I just got off the phone with a friend who has been in Indian Creek since Saturday.

Sunday morning they caught 5 Striper keepers (2 @ 30")in the mouth of Whippoorwill on Super Spooks. Since then it has been slow. One or two fish each day, no keepers.

If you want live bait, there is almost an unbelieveable amount of shad back in the cut to the left of 76 Falls and its been there all summer. It's truely an amazing sight, schools of thread fin 200 ft across. I've been catching fish back there all year long. Got a 22" spot right under 76 Falls in July. The water in the pool under the falls was 10 degrees cooler than the main lake and was loaded with fish. I had to drag a Jon boat to get to them but once I got there, I slayed em!

I hope this helps

Jeff

[mhall]

I just got off the phone with a friend who has been in Indian Creek since Saturday.

Sunday morning they caught 5 Striper keepers (2 @ 30")in the mouth of Whippoorwill on Super Spooks. Since then it has been slow. One or two fish each day, no keepers.

If you want live bait, there is almost an unbelieveable amount of shad back in the cut to the left of 76 Falls and its been there all summer. It's truely an amazing sight, schools of thread fin 200 ft across. I've been catching fish back there all year long. Got a 22" spot right under 76 Falls in July. The water in the pool under the falls was 10 degrees cooler than the main lake and was loaded with fish. I had to drag a Jon boat to get to them but once I got there, I slayed em!

I hope this helps

Jeff

A 22 inch Spot, Dude that is a hoss Kentucky, way to go.

[Trick Daddy]

A 22 inch Spot, Dude that is a hoss Kentucky, way to go.

I was as shocked as you are. She weighed just over 5lbs and was the biggest spot I'd ever seen in person. I brought her back to Grider Hill to show some friends and get a photo before releasing her. The picture is terrible because we were in direct sunlight at a 1:00 in the afternoon.

Jeff

[mhall]

I was as shocked as you are. She weighed just over 5lbs and was the biggest spot I'd ever seen in person. I brought her back to Grider Hill to show some friends and get a photo before releasing her. The picture is terrible because we were in direct sunlight at a 1:00 in the afternoon.

Jeff

I figured five or better, that is a serious Spot my man. I have raised a few that size at the big C but it's hard to get one to committ. I had one come up with one I had hooked one time on one of my places that holds alot of Kentuckies and I honestly think it would have made 6 pound maybe a fuzz more. Put he rod between my legs with the smaller one still hooked and picked up a spinning outfit and flipped it a Fluke he rushed it and then stopped, you know how they will do, then said not today fella and just sank through the water column out of sight. I can still see that beast in my minds eye.

Good job on the release, what a Spot. My biggest ever was just over four pound but it came from Barren on a lime buzzbait. Biggest ever from Cumberland might have been three pound or so.

[mhall]

Good luck Scott, it's been real up and down. Pre-frontal with clouds seems to be when you will get a decent bite on the smallmouth especially very early and real late. Stripers haven't been playing at night...YET.... still some jumps going on, have to be in the right place at the right time, you know the drill there. Been a sporadic bite but when it's good it's good, and when it's off it's really off.

Good luck Pal, be safe and I hope you guys have a successful trip.

[jamesdenson]

would that not have been a new state record

[pkfish]

State Record Spot: 7lb 10oz

[mhall]

would that not have been a new state record

No, State record is 7lb and change.

[demodan]

No, State record is 7lb and change.

I've was with a friend that caught a 5.8lb spot in late June 1989; from the Ky. River!!!! Caught on a small back and blue jig, right before dark, in three feet of water..on a sand flat, with one big rock, she was right next to it when hooked...That was the largest spot I'd ever seen..maybe I'll ever see in person. The fight that this spot put up also will be one I'll never forget; I had the pleasure of netting this heavy weight! And it was for sure a spot. Unfortunitly...he did mount this one for the wall; I really couldn't blame him. So when I read that the state record is 7lb+!!!!....It's just about to much for me to believe.?? I'd even go as far as saying I won't see this record broke...or the world record smallmouth be broken in my life time
Has anybody ever seen...in person...and for sure!!!!...A small mouth in double digit weight...10 pound or more...anybody...where, when..and how? Please be honest.

[PRO V LE]

The Spots have been in the jumps thru-out the harbor here at Grider. Can you say topwater fun!