Any Patoka Walleye Stories........

[GeoFisher]

Thanks Dave.........Maybe I will just head back to KY Lake a few more times and hammer some bass. I'm actually thinking about taking some whites and yellows home this year. Never done that, but I hear they are pretty good to eat.

Later,

Geo

[SteveM4A1]

i've caught a few walleyes this year around schooling bass in open water. nothing with any size though. i'm with justin on this one and just go to huntingburg if you want to catch some hybrids...but i havent been catching as many legal size sauggies as in years past...but i dont target them or know how to fish for them very well either

[Dave Stewart]

Thanks Dave.........Maybe I will just head back to KY Lake a few more times and hammer some bass. I'm actually thinking about taking some whites and yellows home this year. Never done that, but I hear they are pretty good to eat.

Later,

Geo

I know where there a bunch of those whites and yellows right now if you come down soon give me a call....they won't leave my bass lures alone...LOL

Dave

[GeoFisher]

I know where there a bunch of those whites and yellows right now if you come down soon give me a call....they won't leave my bass lures alone...LOL

Dave

I will definitely do that.

This year I managed to align my calender in such a way that I will be getting a few fall trips to KY.

I'm headed down next weekend, the following weekend, and 10 days from Oct 23 - Oct 30.

Then 2 trips in November, before my Dale trips start. Man, I CANNOT WAIT.

[shane2480]

Hey Geo if you decide to keep the whites and yellows i highly recommend that when you fillet them you remove the red blood line that runs down the middle of the fillet. This is especially important if you are keeping the bigger fish. the blood line does not have to be removed but it cuts down on how fishy the fillet tastes. Since their main forage is shad the darker the blood line the more it will taste very fishy and oily. i learned this trick from a striper guide at Cumberland.

[JustinM]

It's on fire imo geo. Shallow, deep and in between. You have to mess up not to catch fish. We caught them Saturday on spooks, jigs, Carolina, spinners and cranks from 18" of water to 30'. We hit one spot on north Kentucky early for topwater then the rest of the day on Barkley. Smallies are really hitting.

[Dave Stewart]

It's on fire imo geo. Shallow, deep and in between. You have to mess up not to catch fish. We caught them Saturday on spooks, jigs, Carolina, spinners and cranks from 18" of water to 30'. We hit one spot on north Kentucky early for topwater then the rest of the day on Barkley. Smallies are really hitting.

Sounds like you should have been in the HCBC open at Ky Dam on Saturday..only took 17.84 to win a bunch of money and it was full of big gun locals.

[JustinM]

We were. Couldn't make the time. Oil alarm issues. No way we were gonna be back in time so stayed out fishing. Alarm is going off everytime we go over idle speed. Think we were boat 20? Two weekends ago our smallie spot shut down which killed 3 hours total time without a keeper. We were done after that. Dunno why Dave but the smallie bite has been great for me this year. We caught a ton of fish but the size has been missing for me all month. I'm really gonna try and make it down in the spring to fish with you a couple times. I fish the lake 4-5 times a month but I really don't know it that well and would like to get a few more options.

[Embrey]

We were. Couldn't make the time. Oil alarm issues. No way we were gonna be back in time so stayed out fishing. Alarm is going off everytime we go over idle speed. Think we were boat 20? Two weekends ago our smallie spot shut down which killed 3 hours total time without a keeper. We were done after that. Dunno why Dave but the smallie bite has been great for me this year. We caught a ton of fish but the size has been missing for me all month. I'm really gonna try and make it down in the spring to fish with you a couple times. I fish the lake 4-5 times a month but I really don't know it that well and would like to get a few more options.

so how much weight did you have you think?

[Dave Stewart]

We were. Couldn't make the time. Oil alarm issues. No way we were gonna be back in time so stayed out fishing. Alarm is going off everytime we go over idle speed. Think we were boat 20? Two weekends ago our smallie spot shut down which killed 3 hours total time without a keeper. We were done after that. Dunno why Dave but the smallie bite has been great for me this year. We caught a ton of fish but the size has been missing for me all month. I'm really gonna try and make it down in the spring to fish with you a couple times. I fish the lake 4-5 times a month but I really don't know it that well and would like to get a few more options.

Too bad about the engine...I hope everything is ok with it. Glad to hear you are catching the smallies...even better to hear you are catching small fish, not because I want you to catch little fish...but because our numbers of small smallmouth have been bad last few years which is indicative of bad spawns. The populations have been down on Ky for the last few years and it is good to hear someone is catching numbers. Be happy to go out with you next spring if you can make it...you should not wait too long to book your trip though as I get booked up pretty quick for spring trips.

Dave

[SteveM4A1]

I doubt the newly stocked walleyes will have an effect on the bass population, but it will definitely help the panfish. I'm a bass fisherman, but I also love to panfish, and I think this is great news.

[skeeter sf150sx]

I was just stating my thoughts on the matter. U can choose whatever you want to do. I am not forcing anyone to keep fish. I just know from talking with tournament directors at both Patoka and Monroe that their impression has been unhealthy and smaller bass are being weighed in at tournaments after the stocking programs were implemented. Not only that but they have also said to have found teeth marks and sores on bass that they think was caused by walleye. U talk to tournament fisherman and some think that walleye are pushing bass off their normal points and structure evident of catching walleye instead of bass. They have similar habitats but a lake can only sustain so many fish. Why didn?t DNR just stock more bass? See what happens. It is not like stocking the walleye at Monroe has really started a booming tourist trend or made the bass fishing any better. U can draw your own conclusions but I think everyone knows mine.
The deep fishing was good mid summer like always but towards the end of the summer the bite started going shallow. I know the transition normally goes that way but the temps were still in the upper 90?s. The winners taking home the money were not main lake guys but bank beaters that were up in the creeks.