Jumps on Lake Cumberland?

[rooster]

They have finished blacktopping and now are replacing the gearboxes on the spillway gates. They will be at that for a while.

[Dobe Mejuwa]

Oh yeah forgot to mention, the reason i was bass fishing at prime jump time was because we put 6 in the cooler in 10 minutes at an undisclosed location......so, yeah, they jumped great yesterday evening, and not a boat in sight. Good luck and have fun

Yes, Thursday was a big turn around. Same area outside Jamestown near Low Gap, and in the mouth of Lilly, then Wolfe, and finally out over the flats halfway between Jamestown and Wolfe.

Best thing was as the surface feeding of each group started to slow and the fish scattered, we were getting hits on shiners on freelines 70 foot behind the boat, and down rods at 20 an 40 feet. Big turn around from Wednesday night.

And ya know Monday and Tuesday night when they were surfacing, and again Thursday night, seemed like boats were staying spread out, not big motoring in, our crowding. I guess that was because the pods of fish surfacing were so spread out and coming up at some many different locations that it seemed like each guy just had his own area.

BTW to all, State Dock had some super shiners for Striper fishing Thursday.

[Dobe Mejuwa]

Thanks for the update. Will be down thursday, friday and saturday. Will be in that area (wolfe to beaver) and will report if i have anything to share. Thanks and good luck!

Glad to help. Always thought the board was for sharing info to increase enjoyment of the sport. If you're still there, keep an eye on the island at Low Gap also, Best action seems to be at entrance to low gap in am, and pm more so down low gap island right where the rock cliffs transition to the clay/rock banks. I call it the third hump area of the island, with the first hump at low gap entrance.

[R19]

Bass fished main lake and Otter. On 10/1 water temperature was 77 on 10/15 it is still 73. The warm trend were are currently under is suppose to get even warmer at the first of the week. On Monday,Tuesday and Wednesday the are predicting we will get close or possibly even see a record high for each day. Forecast calls for 85 Monday, 86 Tuesday, and 85 Wednesday. At that rate we will be fishing 70 degree water at the first of November.

Saw zero striper jumps but did see someone boat one on a down-line 1/2 way back in Otter. Bass fishing was slow...the few that I caught were deformed...their eyes were too close to their a.s.s.

[Buchy1210]

Fished the mouth of Beaver this morning, caught a few smallies, no striper or jumps. Started marking more fish and bait the further went. Just couldn't get one to bite.

[Dobe Mejuwa]

I hear ya about Beaver area. We check Beaver whole way to marina and main lake to dam, and saw nothing happening south of low gap island.

[waterdog101]

Glad to help. Always thought the board was for sharing info to increase enjoyment of the sport. If you're still there, keep an eye on the island at Low Gap also, Best action seems to be at entrance to low gap in am, and pm more so down low gap island right where the rock cliffs transition to the clay/rock banks. I call it the third hump area of the island, with the first hump at low gap entrance.

good post, and a dang good sport...thanks

[peter]

Fished Sunday 10/17

Could not catch bait. It would not come up above 70 or 80' under light down by dam. It was a full moon though. Caught alewives full moon when they came up to 60' last full moon. I was hoping it didn't affect them down that deep. Maybe my net was closed by the time it got to 80'. Who knows.

Fished south side between Indian and dam and up by lo gap with some really nice shinners. Caught some cats and some baits torn in half. Pretty sure I was over some active stripers quite a bit but they would come up and go back down or do nothing. I think had I had alewives there would been been some fish in the boat!

Saw no jumps dark to 10:00 am est.

[Dobe Mejuwa]

Fished Sunday 10/17

Could not catch bait. It would not come up above 70 or 80' under light down by dam. It was a full moon though. Caught alewives full moon when they came up to 60' last full moon. I was hoping it didn't affect them down that deep. Maybe my net was closed by the time it got to 80'. Who knows.

Fished south side between Indian and dam and up by lo gap with some really nice shinners. Caught some cats and some baits torn in half. Pretty sure I was over some active stripers quite a bit but they would come up and go back down or do nothing. I think had I had alewives there would been been some fish in the boat!

Saw no jumps dark to 10:00 am est.

Baits torn in half: I had a couple downpours pulled over, a short fight, then came off. When line came up shiner was bit in half????? Small Striper , walleye, or gar do you reckon?

[bsg2121]

Sorry for the late post. My phone didn't want to work well on the water. Meant to post when i got back but you know life got busy anyway....we limited out everyday all in the jumps.

Thursday was the best as we saw jumps morning and night. Really think rain, overcast and lack of boats helped. There is a group of us and most are still there ...so we caught our fish on thurs and saw jumps from the mouth of wolfe to the wall by govenors (past cut through and island).

Friday was painful but got into them late accross the main lake from beaver.

Sat was more painful with the addition of boats, jet skis and tubers but again late we found them between the mouth of wolf snd the cut through.

Honestly i think they are everywhere but a lot of patience, standing up with consistent looking.....hard on neck and back. They were a little harder this year as they werent splash jumping if you will. They were rolling with limited splashing.

Great times and thanks again for everyones help.

[Dobe Mejuwa]

BSG2121,
Great post and thanks for sharing. Thursday morning was good for us too, but we never really did see much Thursday night around Wolf. We should have been more mobile, but I just sat. Glad you got into them.

[Duayne]

Fished Sunday 10/17

Could not catch bait. It would not come up above 70 or 80' under light down by dam. It was a full moon though. Caught alewives full moon when they came up to 60' last full moon. I was hoping it didn't affect them down that deep. Maybe my net was closed by the time it got to 80'. Who knows.

Fished south side between Indian and dam and up by lo gap with some really nice shinners. Caught some cats and some baits torn in half. Pretty sure I was over some active stripers quite a bit but they would come up and go back down or do nothing. I think had I had alewives there would been been some fish in the boat!

Saw no jumps dark to 10:00 am est.

I had to have a green light 60 ft down and had to drop the net 80 ft to get good bait. Fished Friday through yesterday (10-18) and limited each day but Monday. Monday my trolling motor died so I had to borrow one for Tuesday. Fished the north shore flats in 50-70 ft of water with fish coming 45 to 50 ft down until Tuesday. Yesterday I moved out to the outside creek channel in front of Indian. Missed three while catching two. Had one on that pulled 50' of line out before it got off (was fighting another biggun at the time). Landed one that was 42". I had one on from a 35 ft line yesterday. Fished less than 30 minutes in the early mornings most days.

No jumps but I'll only fish those if I happen on them.

Peter,
Drop a shiner (or better yet a spoon) down through the packs and reel up pretty quick if you are over them and they are not hitting the shiners. You get one going and you will probably get others.