Cumberland Memorial Day Weekend

[Rob1678]

I was striper fishing this past weekend, but my buddy did fairly well fishing off the creek points back in a little. They really liked where the fresh water was running in as well. He was using plastic and jig/pig. Good luck, be careful of all the boat traffic!!! could get a little crazy out there. I would look for a no wake zone and early in the morning before the skiers get out!!

[Aquaman]

Might want to cruise by Harmon Cove at around 2 or 3 in the afternoon. The "Fishing" is Realllllllly good down there! expecially on memorial day weekend.

[stripernut]

Might want to cruise by Harmon Cove at around 2 or 3 in the afternoon. The "Fishing" is Realllllllly good down there! expecially on memorial day weekend.

good call aquaman....2-3 should be during the prime show...i mean bite

[Castin_A_Jig]

As far as fishing goes it was really tough last weekend. We had a small club tourney and only 10 fish was weighed in.

[R19]

I launched from the dam this morning and bluegill fished from 6-10 am. Could have fished longer but I ran out of crickets. Morning temp was 73.5 and 75 at 10 when I left. I fished by myself and probably had 30 bluegill but only kept 17 of the better ones. Of the 17 only 2-3 were the big 10" bull bluegill that Cumberland is know to produce. The other 14-15 were good eating size so I am not complaining.

I was fishing pockets and coves that I have been bluegill fishing for several years on the lower end of the lake. This was my 1st trip this year and I think I missed the peak of when the huge bluegill are up protecting the nest,but it is still fun catching decent size bluegill. One thing I noticed that I have never seen in the past was the area I fished had many, many, many small mussels. Eevery bluegill when cut open was full of mussels. The bottom of my live-well had about 1 table spoon full of mussel shell regurgitation. I fished from 3ft - 20ft deep looking for the big bulls but never found them. About all of the eating size gills came in the 8-12 ft range.

As a bonus I had 3 smallmouth's on crickets. All were in the 13-16" range and that is a blast with 4lb line and an ultralight. All of the smallmouth were 12-15ft deep on the side of a point not directly on the point. I also had a couple of very small KY's. If you want to just stretch you line you should have no trouble finding some gills. As for the bass I gave up on Cumberland a long time ago. When using artificial bait I get my bass fix at Green or Barren... good luck