Despite low elevation, fishing has improved
Monday, May 5, 2008
Written By: Jerry Maupin, Kentucky Lake Professional Fishing Guide
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Wow!! The fishing has improved and the crappie have been doing great even though the lake elevation has been falling! There are many areas where the fish had not completed their spawning and we found them in Cypress Creek. Bill, Jesse and Louie were staying at the Lakeview Resort where we met for our trip. We covered several areas and found loads of bluegill and young bass willing to strike our roadrunner jigs! Throughout the course of the day we located a good area with lots of crappie willing to bite. The guys were quick to take advantage of the new info and soon were landing an impressive number of fat slab crappie, bluegill and yellow stripes. It was a load of fun fishing with these guys so maybe they can come back in the hot summer and catch a bunch of stripes and bluegill!

I fished next with Dan King and son, Joshua, out of the Kenlake Marina area. We caught loads of bass, bluegill and stripes even though the winds were a little tough. Some crappie were taken but the lake elevation was falling and we could see a change was taking place. The guys were great and did all we wanted to do under the falling waters. We caught some nice fish! I fished next with Joe, John and Jim Day out of the Kenlake area again. The winds were tough and so was the crappie bite but these guys caught some good crappie. Now days when you crappie fish you also catch the largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, yellow stripes, rockfish stripes and big bluegill. We did all of that and then some!

It was a hoot fishing with these three brothers on their very first ever, fishing trip with each other! I was laughing all day at some of their comments and I hope to get them back down here again in the summer months! Thanks to the Day Brothers!

We next had the pleasure of fishing with John and Scott Meade and Joe out of Kenlake again. These guys were crappie hungry and we tried to fill the live wells. It was the same pattern again, lots of big bluegill, yellow stripes and some whopper crappie. We made pass after pass down the banks of the bays, sometimes holding in an area that had produced good fish earlier. We caught a lot of fish but not all were the crappie. The fish were still affected by the falling water level and seemed to be moving around in the bays. The guys were great to fish with and maybe later in the summer we can get them here to catch the larger striped bass!

I had the pleasure of fishing with Lee and Nancy Schiff for three days and there is no telling how many fish we caught! Of course not all of them were big crappie but several were and they were fun to catch. Loads of bass of all sizes were caught by Nancy and Lee in every bay we fished but there just wasn't the big ones they were looking for.


Nancy had a birthday while casting for bass and big crappie and you know what, she caught some of each to make her the champion angler of the day! Happy Birthday Mrs. Schiff! We have one more day to go so just maybe that will be the magic day.

Both Nancy and Lee are extremely talented anglers and travelers so we are having a great time being with them and showing them the beautiful Kentucky Lake!

Happy Fishing!

Jerry Maupin
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