 |
||||
|
Your one stop source for Bass Tournament information! |
||||
|
||||
|
Navigation
|
Submit Your Report for Posting! |
|||
|
|
||||
|
Bass
Fishing Report; Kentucky and Barkley Lakes; 4/20/2007
Both
lakes are at summer pool and are forecasted to rise a little more over
the next two days. Overall
the bass fishing was good this past week with a couple of slow days
after the cold fronts that came through the area.
We caught our first bass out of the mustard flowers this week,
although the fish we were catching were the smaller buck bass, it is a
great sign of things to come very soon.
The bucks always show up first in the flowers so we can expect
the bigger females to be not far behind.
The better fish this week were still coming from lead in channel
banks to the spawning flats. Largemouth
Bass: The Largemouth are
being taken on creek channel banks and associated secondary points near
the spawning areas. These
fish are being taken on jigs, shakey head worms, spinnerbaits and medium
running crankbaits. Some
fish are being taken in the mustard flowers on Smallmouth
Bass: The Smallmouth Bass
are being taken on chunk rock creek channel banks near the mouths of the
bays and on the main lake. These
fish are on post spawn patterns and are taking jigs, grubs and tube
jigs. The bite is slow. Some
of the productive lures this week are:
Berkley shakey head worms and Zoom trick worms in green pumpkin,
Last Cast jigs in green pumpkin with tiny paca craw trailer in green
pumpkin, Hook Some Bass spinnerbaits in blue glimmer, Bandit crankbaits
in rootbeer/chartruese, Rapala DT series crankbaits in bluegill and Hook
Some Bass tubes in green pumpkin. Crappie:
The Crappie are being taken over brush piles in 9-12 ft of water
by casting road runners and vertical jigging.
A few shallow Crappie are being taken around stakebeds and brush
in 4-6 ft of water early and late in the day.
The deeper Crappie are the White Crappie that have yet to spawn.
These fish should move shallow very soon as the water
temperatures warm. Bluegill/Shellcrackers:
I have not received any reports on the bluegill or shellcrackers
this week but I can tell you there are bluegills and shellcrackers
shallow already. I noted a number of active bluegill beds yesterday on
N. Barkley. They are
chewing the tails off my lizards and baby brush hounds while we are bass
fishing. Yesterday while on
N. Barkley another bass angler caught a 2.3 lbs shellcracker while bass
fishing on a shallow flat. I
would check these fish out very soon if you are interested in catching
some nice ones. If
you are in need of a guide for some fun bass fishing, tournament
preparation, lake familiarization or technique instruction don't
hesitate to give me a call or drop me a line.
I have the following dates available: April:
sorry I am booked up May:
sorry I am booked up June:
3, 10, 17, 18, 23, 25, 29 I
have plenty of dates in July so just call me for information.
If I am booked up on a date you want, you can call me to get a
referral for another service, I don't mind at all. I
have had a number of folks wanting to know how to get in contact with
the Last Cast lure company who is making the
finesse jigs I am using this spring.
Here is their website and phone number:
www.lastcastbait.com 317-835-2068. Captain.
Dave
Stewart |
||||
|
|
||||
|
|
||||
