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Kentucky Lake
jhimco
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With all the hot weather and dry conditions in the South. The fishing has been kind of slow there. Only the bluegills were biting good.[V]
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I also fished Clark's River (west of Kentucky Lake, and running into the Ohio at Paducah) earlier this year, by wading it. With the onset of the drought, the river narrowed enough that it's possible to cast clear across the river for most all of the mile long stretch I wade, which is near Murray, Kentucky. In Clark's River I could maintain my Bluegill, Sunfish, Shellcracker to bass ratio as noted above, but the bluegill ran smaller, and the bass ran bigger than what I can expect from the lake.
Finally, I lucked into a 4 or 5 year old pond, in which I caught my first ever flyrod bass. In about 12 fishing trips, I've managed to catch large catfish, the smallest over three pounds, the largest nearly five pounds, and quite a number of three pound or so bass, in all but two of my visits.
The fish are fed pellets, and so far, in those twelve trips, I've caught only a single bluegill. I suspect the catfish and bass have pretty much cleaned out the prey fish population. The pond is now at least three feet to four feet low, and with a bottom only 8 to 9 feet down, I'm having to try harder to get them to respond to top water lures. My last trip yielded only a single, three pound catfish.
Respectfully submitted by,
Sahagan