Kentucky Lake Report

[squack15]

Alright, the weather has been crazy here on KY lake the past several days. The water temperatures last saturday were around 45 degrees. The weather warmed up, and we had several warm hard rains from thursday until saturday. In a matter of less than a week, the water temp. jumped up to about 56 on the main lake, and we found 60 degree water in some bays!!!!! This weather sent the bass runnin for the warmest water they could find, and during our tournament saturday there were about 10 limits weighed in. The winning weight for paying members was about 16 pounds, and the winning weight for college students was a notch under 17.

The majority of the fish were caught in the backs of bays in 4 or 5 feet of water. Several anglers found fish by flipping cover while others caught fish on spinnerbaits, crankbaits, and lipless cranks. Jerkbaits also produced a number of fish.

The drum bite was also in full swing I found out, as I preceded to catch 9 whoppers during the day. My largest was close to 20 pounds and my smallest at least 5. (If you're fishing KY and want to catch drum just throw a table rock shad pattern suspending bait and let it suspend....those stupid fish will destroy it)

Today I went out w/ a buddy of mine just before dark. We caught two largemouth being 2 and 3 pounds, and one decent smallie of about 2 pounds. These fish were caught right on the bank w/ lipless cranks.

The bite is on and its shallow. Go out there and whack em!!!