Emergency Regulations Lake Cumberland-Striper

[Jbyrd]

Excellent Point??

Doubtful.........Dale and Cumberland are completely DIFFERENT lakes.......How many times has Dale been dropped oh say 60 ft to keep from flooding the down stream communities. I can tell you NONE since I've been fishing it. Cumberland.......well practically every year over the past few. I will tell you this though.....I think there have been some serious SPAWN classes at cumberland lately, and as soon as the lake comes up a little all that brush along the bank is going to make for some FANTASTIC fishing. BUT you guys will of course say it is all due to the striper kills this year and last year.

Dale has some SERIOUS predators besides spots, smallies and largemouth. How about Lakers, Rainbows, Muskies, Walleye,etc, etc Those take a BIG bite out of the alewife and shad population.

And........since the introduction of alewives into Dale, I believe there have not been too many "trophy" smallies caught from there.......trophy meaning over 8lbs.

Like I said in the previous thread..........I hope you guys get really good at alewife fishing, because without the stripers, that is ALL you're going to catch.........

Later,

Geo

Well hope this is not sounding like I am disputing every comment, But I KNOW FOR A FACT alewives where in Dale YEARS before cumberland. In fact I KNOW who caught some of the first ones and put in lake cumberland in the early 70's.At the time the Game wardens (as they where called then ) Tried to get someone to admit to it HA HA . But their exact words where that alewives are steriods for bass. The only bad thing they said was that they are more prone to a die off which in-turn may harm the bass population They wanted the magnum spots and the big smallies that where in dale to be in cumberland. Also cumberland has the same predators that you mentioned OH YEA that is right the STRIPERS ate all the trout in the early 80's. Yes for some of you new to cumberland fishermen they used to stock trout in cumberland EVERY spring. Man you could murder the stripers in the heads of the creeks when they releasd the trout. Ever heard of a strawberry little mac. When striper fishing was at its best that was the lure. IMATION RAINBOW TROUT !!!!. And cumberland dropping 60 feet? where and when did that happen .In 1984 we got 10 inches of rain the lake rose to 751 (highest in history and was going over the flood gates at the top of the **** . Go to this link and click on statistics I think it has done that one other time in it's 57 year history. If they pulled it down to 690 (whichswas common during the winter before the repairs) That is a 61 feet drop So yea I guess it did happen ONCE !!! and that was over 8-10 months Most years cumberland would stay around 720 and during the summer start to drop until Dec or Jan down to the 690 mark.The lowest it has EVER been in the history of the **** is 675.10 Jan 27 1981
This year alone dale was 637.31 on Jan 11 and it went up to 658.39 on April 18 , 21 feet difference .So as you can see they both fluctuate.,
Ok for a thought let them try to put stripers in DALE and watch the reaction. The smallmouth fishermen would burn Frankfort......
As for the over 8 lbs Believe there have been several pics on this site alone just in the last 2 years . That doesn't count the ones we don't hear about.
Think elnuts could give a good ideal on how many he has heard about coming from down there.
And since i made the comment about fishing cumberland for 35 years i have also fished dale just as long but not as often. Was lucky enough to have an Old Man as we call him who had fished Dale many a time with the late great Billy westmorland introduce me to Dale hollow. When I was still a single man he had retired from the army and we fished every sat and sunday for 2 years from feb until late november on the hollow. Remember this was before the float-n-fly So that is how can compare the two lakes . I have fished them thru thick and thin.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Cumberland#Statistics go to this link and click on stats to see the highs and lows