Clear Creeek WMA - Hopkins County.

[stickbait]

Those are some very large bluegills. You probably have some kind of record if you have a gill pushing 3lbs. My friend caught a 16.5 inch crappie 2 wks ago and it weighed 2.75 lbs. Those gills must have been as big as hubcaps. I may have to haul my canoe down your way.

[IronWorker]

The Kentucky state record for Bluegill is four pounds and three ounces and that fish was actually caught in a strip mine lake in Hopkins County.
I checked that scales we were using and it was bit off and we are now thinking those two fish were right at two pounds or maybe a few ounces more.
Its not uncommon to catch sixteen inch crappie in this creek. My buddy caught a huge white crappie with a dark stripe between its eyes and down the length of its nose and its soon going to the taxidermist.

[IronWorker]

Those are some very large bluegills. You probably have some kind of record if you have a gill pushing 3lbs. My friend caught a 16.5 inch crappie 2 wks ago and it weighed 2.75 lbs. Those gills must have been as big as hubcaps. I may have to haul my canoe down your way.

Do you use a canoe for most of your fishing and do you sometimes mix it up between a canoe and a john boat? Only times i fish out of a john boat is when i am with someone who has one. Rest of the time i fish by myself in the canoe. Some of us will go in canoes but stay in a group just to see who can out-do the other and that makes for fun.
One of the best bass fishing spots ive come across with a canoe was traveling a couple miles up a ditch and seeing where beavers had built dam and clogged up a culvert. The other side of the culvert was a levee that was built around a old strip mine operation and the water was backed up and the place was full of bass crappie and bluegill. It was probably 20 feet wide 10 feet deep and as long as four or five football fields. One good things about a canoe is no matter how poor a place looks you never do know whats there until you start looking.