Kentucky Lake 9-7-12

Kentucky Lake 9-7-12

Anticipation!! After recent trips to Percy Priest and Tim's Ford, Jack and I were really looking forward to Kentucky Lake at New Johnsonville. There is just something about this lake that excites you. I know I had visions of 3 pounders Thursday night. Jack was dreaming of 4 pounders. Well, it didn't work out like that.

Left Franklin at 4:15. Stopped in Waverly at Hunt Outdoors for a tenderloin biscuit. You have to have some sustenance that early in the morning. A few minutes later we were launching at the New Johnsonville ramp. After the short ride in the lane going out to the river, the first thing I saw was grass on the shoreline. Wow! Been a few years since I have seen that. Headed down to the Factory which has usually been a great starting point but not today. Grass is everywhere! I lost one bass on a crank but not bIg. We had thrown frogs, buzz baits, Pop-R, jigs, plastic and cranks. Did I mention the grass?

Next stop was Little Dry Creek. Next big shock! Almost all of Dry was topped out with grass. There was a narrow channel about half way back in the creek til it closed up with grass. We then motored up the back channel on the West side to the Pilot Knob area. Jack finally caught our first fish. He bribed me not to post a pic of this "lunker". I finally caught my first fish at 8:30. Oddly we caught several more on this bank, mostly on the Smoking Blue Finesse Worm and then they quit. Next move was back up river and into Trace Creek. Picked up one here on a Big Dead Ringer worm.

Still exploring we fished the wide grass band leading up to the entrance to Birdsong Creek. Looked great, produced nothing. Made a swing up in the Creek but didn't fish any. Last stop was the grass band leading up to the canal to the launch. Caught one more in the canal that finished us for the day. Our total for the day was 9 bass. You may have noted that I haven't mentioned size. That is by design. To be fair Jack had one about 1.5. The rest were not too big. Although, we did a bit better than recent trips we were disappointed with the results. Conditions were so promising.... We did not see a single school blowing up. But we did see fair amounts of bait.

Spoke to a couple of locals who came out at the same time. One guy said they had about 15 but no size. He said the falling water had turned the fish off. He said the last couple of weekends he had caught 50 to 100 bass, mostly schooling, including some 4 and 5 pounders. The Fall pull down started a few days ago so the lake is on its way to winter pool. So maybe we had a good excuse. I truly believe this Fall will produce some great fishing. Grass, grass, grass!!!