thegman, Kentucky Lake, Bass, 05/30/2018, Son

[thegman]

Fished the Triton Owners tournament with my son last week on KY Lake. We had a great time. Had 10.60 the first day (3 fish limit). Wheels fell off 2nd day. Changed strategy. Should have stuck with what was working. My son had our bf on day 1 @ 4.25 lbs. Caught late spawners flipping, whacky rig & square bill. Big fish in practice was 5.09 lbs. My son had a 4.40 lb & some over 3 lbs in practice.

We saw a bunch of Aisan carp. Had three in the 5 lb range almost jump in the boat with us. Scanned several schools that were probably carp. They are already a big problem on KY Lake. Didn't see or scan any shad in 4 days of fishing. We didn't find any grass shallow or deep around Paris Landing. I'm afraid KY Lake is about to see a big decline. I'm sure the carp are already making it up the TN river.

 

[Mudman]

My 17 yr old fished along with my 19yr old with another guys fished it too. Had a slow day on day 1 better on day 2 but not enough. Carp are terrible up there for sure. We fished in one SLU for a couple hours and the carp where everywhere you look. Even out on the ledges you would see schools coming up to the top of hundreds of them. Maybe they will do something about it very quickly and help the fishery up there. We really expected to do good on the ledges after Lamberts show but no good for us

 

[thegman]

Finding the schools of bass on the ledges with no boat on it was tough for us. We weren't lucky enough to stumble across the vacant ledges that were holding schools. I guess that's why they were vacant. I'll bet every ledge on the lake was scanned last week. The fish are probably suffering from SCANcer. I think if you found them, they were easy enough to catch and quality was good.

 

[Mudman]

U are right. We found some early 1 morning and made a bad decision to go deeper and never could get back on those fish the rest of the tourney. Maybe next yr.

 

[porthos33]

I'm not sure there is a solution to the problem. Maybe we should all just start fishing for carp instead of bass. They fight pretty hard and it would give the bass a break for a bit. haha Thanks for the report. Love that lake!

 

[thegman]

I heard they are trying to genetically modify them to stop reproduction. I'm sure that is way out in the future.

 

[porthos33]

thegman - 6/4/2018 5:12 PM I heard they are trying to genetically modify them to stop reproduction. I'm sure that is way out in the future.

That would be amazing!</p>

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[back_water]

KY Lake was my old stomping grounds before I moved to this area. Only lived an hour from there. Fished many tournaments there and at Reelfoot Lake.