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Got the sauger itch again and the time is right. Done a lot of exploring since 2012. Put in below Greencastle once and ran down below Gasper when Green was up. Had spent a fair amount of time up above L&D 5 before they saw fit to get rid of it. Have ran from Paradise up to 3 as well. Rochester up to the bend where Taylor Lake is and from Morgantown down to Taylor Lake and back up to 4.

Just got through reading a fisheries report about stockings of sauger done way back when this thread was started. None of them panned out. The conclusion was sauger don't do well in the shallower, riffle-hole-run rivers like Barren and how Green gets up above L&D 4. Now that 5 and 6 are gone on Green I can only imagine it has made it worse for them. The gist was that sauger preferred wider rivers with longer, deeper hole sections and plenty of tributaries to get up into when the water gets rolling.

It is just as quick for me to go down into TN below Cordell Hull and fish. Taking me some time to get that river figured out but it has both sauger and walleye. Down in that section Cumberland is about the size as the Ohio up above Louisville due to being the very upper reaches of Old Hickory lake. Still has a substantial amount of current however. I was drifting at 4 mph this past weekend.