Kentucky and Barkley CLOSED until at least Monday nite

[lilmule]

Just think,if TVA lakes and dams hadnt caught a lot of it what it then would be like,as it stands Nashville flood broke the 37 flood level.
Without them homes would have been much closer to the actual rivers,and the flood waters wider than what ky lake normally is.Ky alone has risen from 357 to 367 and already caught ten ft of it.With about another two to go.
Ive refrained from going out even though im south and the revised area does not include me now,but have fished,from the bank.
Paris Landing is closed,port road is still usable,take a number(30 unit parking),floaters unseen docks-daytime only and a good topwater buzzbait bite just as the sun is setting at which time your supposed to be off the water.
Again if you have an itch the bank is quite satisfactory over a lu or a hefty fine,with those in the ky portion leaning towards the fine.
All the time that first day when they were telling people to get off,not once have I heard someone in Tn say they did that to them,maybe they knew all along what area was effected ,not what was printed lol.

[Trophyhunter8]

If all of barkley is closed, is it because of current, floaters or the buoys being washed or combination of all. Also why is only the top of ky closed now and not the whole thing. Is it that the CG has checked the buoys that far up ky. don't get the partial closing

[KyPit71]

Just came back from a week of fishing there.As already posted open from 68 bridge to paris . MUDDY and super HIGH.Looks like Coffee with creamer.We fished Sat.,Sun,Mon with lots of fish being caught,biggest 22 inches.Lots of quality fish those days,water came up along with bluebird skies and fishing slowed considerably . Blood River still had clean water when we left today. Caught 19 inch smallie wednesday that was real nice.Today was hit miss with no quality fish(over 18). Fished shoreline cover and there is a butt load of that now,lol.Water temp in low to mid 70's depending on where you were at.Fished brushhogs and baby brushhogs texas rigged as well as carolina.Later in week seemed the better fish were off secondary points near creek channels.Hope this helps someone,had a blast.Will be going back to this great fishery.We stayed at Paradise resort,nice place and very friendly.

[walkeraviator]

paradise is a nice place... how was the ramp and dock? was the gangway underwater??? How high up their ramp did teh water get?

[KyPit71]

paradise is a nice place... how was the ramp and dock? was the gangway underwater??? How high up their ramp did teh water get?

When we got there Sat. we could use ramp and walkway to dock,no problem.Water started coming up and by middle of week the walkway was under water and ramp as well.Water was up in basketball court and the little ark plaything for the kids. They rigged up a trolley system with a floating dock so we could get back and forth to the slips,very nice people there.Had a great time in spite of the high water.We caught lots of fish, especially Sunday, Monday.