Kentucky Lake April 13, 2012

Met my fishing partner from Memphis, Doyal, at 7 am at the New Johnsonville ramp. Filled with anticipation, as Kentucky Lake always does, we started with crankbaits and plastic on a bank near the canal to the river. Nada, no bites. Fished the island in front of the entrance to Trace Creek. Again no bites. Moved down river to what we call the factory creek. Picked up a few bass on the point, a couple of them smallmouths but pretty small. Nothing in the back of the creek. Moved down to Little Dry Creek. The water was much shallower than we expected. Caught 2-3 fish in here on jigs, Bitsy bugs of course. Decided to make the run to Richland Creek. Shoulda stayed south. Again picked 1-2 fish here. My best, a 2 lb Drum. Doyal a crappie.

Our optimism lagging by now but still hopeful. The weather was great warming from 40 to 70s with light winds out of the east. Move across the river to Harmon Creek but no success. Time to head back up the river. Made a couple of stops but picked up only a dink or two. Loaded out at 5 pm with a total of 13 bass, 1 drum, 1 crappie and 1 yellow bass. Had maybe a couple of 2 leers but most were quite small. Doyal spoke to a couple of guys at the ramp, one catching only 2 and the other 5. So I guess we did OK after several cold nights. We stopped for a bit to eat near the ramp.

As we were checking out, spoke to an older gentleman (well he seemed older than us). Said he caught so many bass that morning he got tired. Had a 6' 9" and lost one much bigger. Our day got deflated with that revelation. We had a great time but the catch was not what we expected.