how is bait at Cumberland

[Lowerider]

Brought down a tank full gizzards just to be safe. Real windy this weekend made it tough to fish where I wanted. My 3 yr old daughter reeled in a smallie pushing 6 lbs. That was it for us. Great trip anyway with my girls.

[Mean Morone]

Wow, thats a nice smallie. My buddy and I used to get them that big back when we used to fish for stripers at night.

[alycat]

We were there from the 2nd to the 5th. The jumps were few and far between. But there were some nice ones in Aligator. Also lots of baitfish were up in there. We were also catching smallies on main lake cuts. Most of the graph readings suggested the bait was suspending in about 20' of water. Spots were the most agressive in shallow coves and around private docks. Since your not allowed to fish around any of the public docks I don't know how it was there. There are signs stateing not to fish within 150' of any public dock. Which I think is totally bogus since it's sitting on state owned water you should be able to fish them.Do be careful though there was accouple of places where there are rock humps just under the water one was clearly marked but there was another coming out of aligator just out from a small marina in a small cove that isn't marked you can only see a small rock sticking out of the water about six inches but the is a large rock hump 50 ft around it. And it's only about a foot deep then drops off. Have fun and be safe!!