Cumberland Report...

[Luke512]

A buddy and I fished Cumberland on Monday. Had a very good day despite the weather. Wind was 10-20mph, and rain off and on. But we went up in fishing creek to get out of the wind a little bit. Caught a total of 31, a bunch of LM and KY's, and about 5 SM. Most fish came on a crankbait, however caught 2 on a jig, and 1 on a spinnerbait. Had a lot of fun. Caught about 20 on the main creek, and about 10 up in one cove. Water was 63-66, and a good color, kind of had a green tint to it.

[Luke512]

Forgot to mention.... Of the 31 we caught, we had about 7 keepers. One smallmouth was right at 4 lbs, had 3-4 largemouth between 2 1/2 & 3 1/2 lbs, and had a couple KY's 10-12 inches. Those were the keepers, then we had a bunch of 13-14 inch largemouth. And a couple 15-17 inch smallmouth, and about 8 really small bass.

[stripernut]

sounds like you had a good day

whoever came up with "the wind is our friend" wasnt running the trolling motor eh

those winds are alot of work

[Castin_A_Jig]

That place is tough right now.Sounds like you put a hurtin on em. I will say this with all the water issues that lake is going to decline in the next 5 years. Seems to me it already has went down hill alot. Just my two cents.

[Barry2780]

The water situation has killed our spawns the last four years. Its sad our tournament weights keep going down.

[mhall]

Nice report I killed fish there Tuesday with the clouds in place. Best numbers day I've had on the big C in about five years or so it was awesome. Had some very decent quality to. Almost couldn't fish for what I was after though because them dang pesky striper critters would't stay off my bait......

[stripernut]

know what ya mean mark, had 4 short stripes and one 31 inches in the boat and lost a very expensive jerkbait to a whale of a striper when carrot stik broke.
the bass fishing was awesome to say the least, 2 smallies over 21 inches and a bunch of just keepers.
wednesday afternoon sucked !!!

one short SM a 22 inch SM and a 25 inch cat......3 bites thats it

[stripernut]

hey mark you ever had a big striper hit while you were hand-lining a jerkbait back to the boat? .......it dont work, well it did for a few seconds

[mhall]

hey mark you ever had a big striper hit while you were hand-lining a jerkbait back to the boat? .......it dont work, well it did for a few seconds

Hey Jeff you are lucky you still have fingers, lol...

[mhall]

know what ya mean mark, had 4 short stripes and one 31 inches in the boat and lost a very expensive jerkbait to a whale of a striper when carrot stik broke.
the bass fishing was awesome to say the least, 2 smallies over 21 inches and a bunch of just keepers.
wednesday afternoon sucked !!!

one short SM a 22 inch SM and a 25 inch cat......3 bites thats it

Yep, when that front cleared from the south and the skies got high and wind switched to the North East it was over pretty quick. I knew then it was time to head to the house....

[HURRICANEBOB]

I didn't get the memo. Still here and still ***** Thursday. Tonight though shad are coming up to dock lights. I hope that means Friday will be better. Compare to 2 weeks ago, this week uneventful.

[mhall]

The fishing Gods must have been with me. Everybody I have talked to has had a bad to so so week down there and Tuesday I had the best day I have had there in quite awhile. Right place right time I guess....

I told Andrew God felt sorry for me and threw me a bone....