Fishing Report
Gibson County Lake
Water temperature: 50 degrees.
Bass: “Scattered,” Trenton’s Brent Smith said. “Some good fish are being caught pitching a green plastic into the flooded brush.”
Crappie: “Crappie have gone very shallow and can be caught in the back flats and creeks,” Brent said. “For bait, try green and black jigs.”
Brent, didn’t have the figures, but said the water levels at Gibson County Lake is as high as its ever been.
“It’s muddy,” Brent said. “The fish remain scattered, but are feeding heavily.”
Kentucky Lake/Lake Barkley
Water temperature: 50-to-52 degrees, depending on the area. Water color: Very muddy throughout the system.
Water levels: Water is 364.6 on the lakes and 338.7 below the dams. The levels will hold fairly constant for the next three days with the dams releasing heavy current. Kentucky Lake at 204,000 CFS and 71,000 CFS at Lake Barkley.
The flow will increase over 233,000 CFS at Kentucky Dam, today.
Bass: “We are still fighting high, very muddy water and winds on the northern end of Kentucky Lake and Barkley lakes, but there are some changes for the good in this weeks fishing,” Darrell Van Vactor said. “Bass anglers are having better luck with a lot of smaller fish being caught in the back sections of the major bays using jigs around cover, and spinner baits along points.
“A few better bass are being taken on secondary points on shad color crank baits.”
Darrell Van Vactor is the Operations Manager for Crappie USA/Cabela’s King Kat Trail in Benton, Kentucky.
Crappie: “Anglers are struggling with only a few successful catches coming in through our group,” Darrell said. “Most fish are being caught in deep water, 22-to-27-feet, using double hook minnow rigs fished straight down in heavy cover and fished very slowly.”
Darrell said even the better fish snagged are very skinny for this time of year, suggesting a lack of small shad in the system.
“Tons of floating debris, some very large, is present on both lakes,” Darrell said. “So exercise extreme caution while on the water.”
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