Wth the mild winter there is a lot of algae floating on the top around the edge of the lake. The fishing spot near the bank at Bluegrass's South Parking lot is so full of algae that you can't fish it without fouling the hook with that green slimy algae.

It's been cool the last week until just the past few days. It's finally warming back up above 75 deg F in the afternoon. In fact it was over 80 deg F the other day.

We had a rain shower this afternoon and that may help cool the water's surface back down a few deg.

I was looking at some photos that I too of boats at Bluegrass. I noticed this one boat that's there a lot and it's was really stained below the water line. It was clear my picture as the boat was just pulled out of the water and was sitting on the trailer still next to the launch ramp. That water is really dirty guys. Anyone else notice how colored the water is?

I remember swimming in some old strip pits up by Chandler, IN and the water in those pits was almost crystal clear. I remember swimming in Linton's pits years ago and they were pretty clear as well. I use to scuba dive in the old T pit and there you could see for hundreds of feet all around you except near the bottom. At the bottom the water changed to an orange color. I don't know how deep that orange water went as I didn't like going into that murkey water. I stayed above the bottom where the water was crystal clear. I could see schools of sunfish swimming around 15 ft deep. The clear water was about 20 to 30 ft deep with the darker colored orange water below that. Those old pits could have been 60 ft deep or more for all I knew. For some reason they filled in that old pit. Not sure if they mine reclaimation rules made them fill it in or what. Perhaps they had another reason for filling it it. I'm sure it cost the mine a lot of money to bring in big equipment to fill in a pit that was perhaps 60 ft deep or more and hundrends of yards long. I remember it was very close to Squaw Creek road. We would park our cars on the road and carry out scuba tanks to the edge of the pit and then put them on and go diving.

Quote Originally Posted by JustinM View Post
It's the same old pit. A lot of boats and good fishing. It's been a little strange lately at least for me. Bass are all over the place as expected from really shallow to hanging around deeper structure. The bite is either really good or dead for me this year. Most of my big fish have been around submerged grass in 4' or less of water. I have usually not done very well with top water there. This year that seems to be a whole different story. Spooks and frogs are killing them around grass.