Ky/Barkley lake water level

[dyoung57]

Went over Barkley today on the way to Ky Lake and it was brown mud looking with a lot of floating debris, so be careful if out on it. Tied for crappie on Ky and couldn't get anything going. Probably should have just bass fished.

Was there yesterday, very muddy and trashy. Going to go to Ky Lake tomorrow, as it does not appear to be muddy from bridge.

[procraft 192 super pro]

Was there yesterday, very muddy and trashy. Going to go to Ky Lake tomorrow, as it does not appear to be muddy from bridge.

When say muddy how muddy is muddy to you? Does it look like cardboard or like you can walk a cross it. And how high is it and are they pulling the bottom out of it?

[dyoung57]

When say muddy how muddy is muddy to you? Does it look like cardboard or like you can walk a cross it. And how high is it and are they pulling the bottom out of it?

I was there on Tues. (4/30) main lake was very muddy/trashy/cardboard looking if you will, & creek arms were a little better way up but not much IMHO. They are pulling it very hard as there is a strong current. However, with that being said I decided to go to Ky. Lake on Wed. afternoon & WOW, what a great decision. Dave Stewart nailed it when he recommended NOT to cancel trip to Ky. lake, fishing was great! Water is up in the bushes, with good color, & so are the fish. Good luck if you go.

[GobyPuck]

The water can never get too high nor too muddy to flip for bass. Dropping water is what you don't want.

[bigwormy]

Ill be there Sunday through Friday. They will be sucking Barkley. What's the recommendation fellas?

[Dave Stewart]

I was there on Tues. (4/30) main lake was very muddy/trashy/cardboard looking if you will, & creek arms were a little better way up but not much IMHO. They are pulling it very hard as there is a strong current. However, with that being said I decided to go to Ky. Lake on Wed. afternoon & WOW, what a great decision. Dave Stewart nailed it when he recommended NOT to cancel trip to Ky. lake, fishing was great! Water is up in the bushes, with good color, & so are the fish. Good luck if you go.

Bass fishing has been good all week on Kentucky...Wednesday they were on for sure. We had two 5's on the first two casts Wednesday morning and another a short time later with a number of 2.5's and 3's. Front and rains are coming in today. Wormy, check out my latest report on the Kentucky Lake Reports page.

Dave

[GobyPuck]

Dave, I have a question...I made the comment its not good when dropping but if the water is real high and the fish are back behind the bushes when they start pulling water will those fish come back to the front of the bushes or just leave altogether?

[Dave Stewart]

You can expect the fish to pull out of the jungle where people are flipping right now if they pull the water down as forecasted. If you check my latest report you will see I am not back in the jungle flipping but fishing the flooded over buck brush and vegatation where they normally would be this time of year without the flood. I expect my pattern to get even better as they pull the water down and those fish in the jungle pull out. When the pulled the bottom out a couple weeks back to below summer pool, we backed out and were catching them in the ditches off the brush.....this happened on the Saturday of the last Walmart BFL tournament....it took 19lbs to win the tournament that day...my client had 23 lbs that day because we backed out and fished the ditches and staging banks just off the spawn areas.

Dave

[GobyPuck]

You can expect the fish to pull out of the jungle where people are flipping right now if they pull the water down as forecasted. If you check my latest report you will see I am not back in the jungle flipping but fishing the flooded over buck brush and vegatation where they normally would be this time of year without the flood. I expect my pattern to get even better as they pull the water down and those fish in the jungle pull out. When the pulled the bottom out a couple weeks back to below summer pool, we backed out and were catching them in the ditches off the brush.....this happened on the Saturday of the last Walmart BFL tournament....it took 19lbs to win the tournament that day...my client had 23 lbs that day because we backed out and fished the ditches and staging banks just off the spawn areas.

Dave

Thank You Dave, I don't want to sound overly corny but there are few individuals in this day and time who are willing to help people with nothing to gain, but you are one of those..you should be proud!

[AllBoutBass]

Pretty new to these awesome twin lakes... fished Barkley a couple times with success, but never Kentucky. Can someone with knowlege of this lake give me a few names of ramps that I can put in and have access to some of the flooded brush I been hearing about. Not asking for anyones hot spots, just a few differ ramps that can put me close to some fish without travling the whole lake. thanks guys.

[GeoFisher]

Thank You Dave, I don't want to sound overly corny but there are few individuals in this day and time who are willing to help people with nothing to gain, but you are one of those..you should be proud!

Dave is a STAND UP guy............STAND UP.

Later,

Geo

[bigwormy]

Thanks Dave! I won't arrive til late Sunday. My dad will get there Sunday afternoon. He's going to stop at a church on the way then fish the afternoon. Dave, your class would have pulled me a 3rd place finish on a new lake had I not lost the fish last year. Very insightful course! I'm fishing a tournament on same lake and heading south after weigh in.