Early fall is a great month for bass fishing in Kentucky
Frankfort, Ky. – September is some of the best sleeping weather of the year. Open the windows, turn the air conditioning off and wake up to crisp, gorgeous mornings.
This kind of weather gets many outdoors enthusiasts excited about doves and deer, but it can be a confusing time for bass anglers. Typically, rain falls the least in September and October, clearing the water in ponds and lakes – and making largemouth bass jumpy.
It seems this slight chill in the air would get bass in a feeding mode, but that doesn’t happen until the water cools considerably. September is a transitional time for bass fishing. This month, however, may yield some huge largemouth bass if you make the right adjustments.
“The fall changes may happen a little earlier this year because we’ve had such a cool summer,” said Jeff Ross, assistant director of fisheries for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. “The surface water and the shallows are cooling down already.”
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Kentucky River fishing is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you’re going to ….
Photo by David Stephenson
By Chris Poore
As the boat departed from the ramp and made its way under the fog-hidden High Bridge in Jessamine County, Elliott Hess leaned back and looked up at the bluffs above him.
Sun kissed the big rock ledges. Birds departed silently from treetops. Fog danced on the surface of the Kentucky River.
Hess, a 22-year-old photographer and a student at UK, grew up in Lexington and wandered all over Fayette County as a kid to find the next perfect fishing hole: a golf course pond here, a church pond there, a stream behind a city park.
But his experience with the Kentucky River, like that of many Central Kentuckians, had been limited to the vantage point of the I-64 and U.S. 27 bridges.
So given the chance to explore the river up close, Hess didn’t hesitate.
As the boat made its way on this 16-mile trip from High Bridge to below the dam at lock Number 8, Hess was moved by the river’s beauty.
“I almost don’t care if we catch fish today,” he said.
It was an angler’s version of “knocking on wood,” but it was an unneeded sentiment this day.
Low head dams in Kentucky are much more dangerous than they might seem
A 13-year-old boy died beneath a low-head dam on Elkhorn Creek at Great Crossings in Scott County this weekend. Low-head dams such as this one on South Elkhorn Creek in Franklin County are some of the most dangerous water structures in existence. Just a drop of a few feet creates dangerous water turbulences below the dam that few escape alive. These types of dams are commonly called "drowning machines." Show this picture to your children, and please be overly cautious any time you're fishing near dams on Kentucky's rivers.
Berea man wins $1 million in FLW Fantasy Fishing
PITTSBURGH (Aug. 1, 2009) — With only a 41 point margin, Terry Moberly, an auto production worker from Berea (pop. 14,430), a small town in central Kentucky, claimed first place in the 2009 FLW Fantasy Fishing season and its $1 million grand prize. Moberly was awarded his $1 million grand prize at Pittsburgh’s Mellon Arena during the weigh-in ceremonies on Saturday of the Forrest Wood Cup presented by BP and Castrol, the world championship of bass fishing, at which tens of thousands of people have enjoyed the tournament and its festivities.
FLW Fantasy Fishing (FantasyFishing.com <http://www.fantasyfishing.com/> ), an international, online fantasy sports game with players in 123 countries worldwide, awarded Moberly, 46, his grand prize for accumulating 37,172 points over the course of a six-tournament season that began in February 2009. Like fantasy football, Moberly selected bass pros competing in the Walmart FLW Tour, the world’s largest and richest professional bass fishing tournament series.
Some tips for wading safety on some of Kentucky’s toughest streams
An angler trout fishes the head of Rainbow Run on the Cumberland River below Wolf Creek Dam. A wade belt (shown in black around the angler's waist) is vital safety equipment for wade fishing.
All was calm when we stepped into Elkhorn Creek that summer afternoon. The clear, cool water rolled by steadily, lapping us about hip-level as we meandered slowly downstream, casting our spinning rods for bass. The five of us easily kept our footing on the moss-covered creek bottom.
Two hours later, we were in a different creek. The water had risen more than a foot as a slug of muddy, post-rain current barreled down from Lexington. Several inches shorter than my fishing buddies, I leaned against the current almost neck-high in water. I was scared. I wanted out of that creek, but struggling toward the bank was like swimming in quicksand.
After 15 minutes that seemed like an hour, I stepped gratefully up onto the bank.
The lesson I learned on my first stream wading trip stuck with me. Though wading can be a relaxing, fun way to fish on a hot summer day, streams can also be unpredictable.
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Don’t let high water scare you away from trout fishing
The author holds a fish caught in higher-than-usual water.
Standing shin-deep on a gravel bar that I had stood atop, bone dry, only a month earlier, I stared at the currents that whipped across the top of a normally placid pool. My hole was washed out. About that time my buddy popped through a gap in the thicket behind me and stepped out onto the gravel bar. “Mighty high today,” he said. “They should be concentrated.”
He pointed to an eddy no larger than my laptop on the far side of the river and asked whether I had hit it. I shook my head, so he snapped of a cast and placed his plug right against the bank. One crank of the rod handle, and a trout walloped my buddy’s offering. Impressed, I followed suit, and so did a trout that would turn out to be the twin of the one my friend was about to land.
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White bass
White bass frenzy on the flats
y Chris Poore
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