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

[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