lake cumberland walleyes night bite stripers

[tracker18]

Short fish is better than no fish i guess. It does seem the amount of shorts is growing. Is it a food problem? Been a long time since you could walk across shad from boat to bank.

[mhall]

Cumberland is a mere shadow of it's once great self. Thank mother nature and the dam failure.

[Mean Morone]

I dont remember ever catching many short fish at night until the last few years. I can remember when if you caught a fish under 10 lb it was considered a "schoolie". They do have to grow up and I see that lake being very good in 4 or 5 yrs. IF they can make it through the summer months. The dam has to be fixed eventually. Until then I will be trying new water.

[FlyLie]

Haven't been on the lake for a couple of weeks now. Rain, wood, etc has taken all the fun of of it. And yes, the size of the fish. Not sure, other then blame it on the fish kills over the last couple of summers. Size sure does not seem to be there!! Just take a look at the photos posted by the guides on the Internet. Would hate to think I paid $200 plus to catch some of those skinny fish. Wells, anyway, looking forward to fishing LC in 2015.

Good news is Kentucky has some great smallmouth streams, so dust off that fly rod or micro lite and check um out..,.

[mhall]

Man ole Man Boone good point. Spend 250 bucks to go out and catch two 25 inch 7 or 8lb stripers, Ouch, not for me thanks.............