I have fished Ky and Barkley 3-4 days each if the past 3 weeks. Fished North Ky on LBL side, south Ky down to Byrd Bay and North Barkley. Caught fish everywhere but this is the weirdest April I have ever seen. Catchemall (my Billy Westmoreland Champ Partner), his buddy Paul (REMEMBER WOODS AND WATER GUIDE SERVICE WHEN BLOOD RIVER ALMOST BECAME "BLOOD" RIVER", had days when it was 86 degrees. This past weekend and yesterday it was winter gear 39 degrees to start and nothing came off. 99% of the fish came in water 5 feet or deeper on jigs, shaky head and Texas rigged lizards. I fished with my buddy 3sons this weekend and we absolutely hammered the fish on humps and ledges in the mouths of the bays. The fish are so confused they don't know what to do. 3 weeks ago water temps were 73, 2 weeks ago they were 68 and yesterday morning they were 62. I personally had 22 off one hump and 57 off another hump on Saturday and totaled 119 myself for the day. It is like it is May because they were stacked on the humps. We had right at a 100 on Sunday and 40 yesterday in only 3 hours. Very few flowers in the water and it will take another foot for the flower bite and no shot at flipping the buck brush because you can walk on the bank between the brush and water line. For the first time in all my trips there, my boat stayed on Barkley the whole time. The fish are everywhere and you have to adjust. First trip it was jigs and shaky heads and I could not but a bite on a lizard. Second trip, jig, shaky head and lizard. This trip EVERY fish came on t rigged lizard. 5-8 was biggest with 4 fish over 5. Saturday was my personal best day with 119 total, probably 40 keepers, 20.5 lb sack, and a ton of 3-3 1/2 pounders off that one hump.

Best part, fishing wise, was hammering 22 fish around my marker bouy inside Poplar Creek with about 15 BFL boats watching Saturday morning with 16lbs in the boat before pulling up bouy and moving. Then that afternoon catching 3 pounder after 3 pounder on the hump where 57 more came to the boat. For 2 straight hours every cast was either a fish coming in, setting the hook or getting hung up. I know exactly where about 30 pieces of 3/8 tungsten sinkers and 2/0 Gama hooks are. The wind was blowing so hard that lighter sinkers would not get in the brush and produced nothing.

Best parts, non-fishing was spending time with my buddies 3sons(Mike), Bassman30(Mark), Catchemall(John) and his buddy Paul. Plus there was that Blood River minor incident with a GUIDE that almost landed me in jail and Blood in Blood River but that is another story that Catchemall will have to tell because the blind RAGE that I was in fogs my memory