Early fall is a great month for bass fishing in Kentucky
September 8, 2009 by admin · Comments Off
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
August 2, 2009 by admin · Comments Off
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
July 30, 2009 by admin · Comments Off
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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Will a Kentucky man win $1 million in FLW’s Fantasy Fishing contest?
Who will be the next fantasy sports millionaire? Will it be the auto production worker from Kentucky, the power plant maintenance mechanic from Oklahoma or the UPS manager from Tennessee?
Poised to make history again, FLW Fantasy Fishing (FantasyFishing.com), an international, online fantasy fishing game will award $1 million to the player who has accumulated the most points over the course of its 2009 season. Founded in Minneapolis by FLW Outdoors, the company that produces the Walmart FLW Tour and the FLW Outdoors TV program (broadcast in high definition on VERSUS), FLW Fantasy Fishing allows bass fishing fans and fantasy sports enthusiasts of all walks of life to create their own fantasy teams from among bass pros who participate in the Walmart FLW Tour, the world’s richest professional bass fishing tournament series. Last year, FLW Fantasy Fishing was first to award a guaranteed $1 million in fantasy sports history.
Fly Tying Basics at Kentucky’s Salato Center August 1
July 28, 2009 by admin · 2 Comments
Frankfort, Ky. – Join members of the Frankfort Fly Fishing Club for a basic introduction to fly tying and techniques of fly fishing from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 1. Fly tying can be a challenging art, but few things are more rewarding than catching a fish on a lure you made yourself. Tying your own flies is fun and can save you money on your next fishing trip. All participants will take home the flies they make and get a chance to try their hand at casting a fly rod. The cost of the program is $35 and is open for ages 9 and older. Registration is required. Read more
Erlanger man talks about Kentucky record grass carp on Kentucky Afield
July 23, 2009 by admin · Comments Off
Here is the 58 pound, 8 ounce state record grass carp taken on 6-17-09 by Robert Marsh. The fish was 48 inches long and 31 inches in girth.Photo by Dave Baker
(Check out the video on right side of our home page!)
Frankfort, Ky. – The record stood unchallenged eight years, until a northern Kentucky angler dunked it in mid-June. On July 25 and 26, “Kentucky Afield” television offers the details on the new state record grass carp.
What took a half-hour to reel to shore proved worth the struggle for Robert Marsh of Erlanger. Today, his name is among an elite group – state record fish holders. His grass carp tipped the scales at 58½ pounds, besting by a full 3 pounds the previous record established in 2001. Marsh appears on Kentucky Afield this weekend to talk about what was going through his mind for that 30 minutes that will now last a lifetime.
Biologists worry about water temperature in Lake Cumberland
July 19, 2009 by admin · Comments Off
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Because of ongoing repairs to Wolf Creek Dam, temperatures in the river rose to the point of stressing trout over the past couple of summers, but conditions are much better so far this summer.
Frankfort, Ky. – The cold air that blankets Kentucky each December, January and February is uncomfortable for most people. Few of us enjoy pulling on extra clothes, driving in snow or being cooped up inside during winter.
Although we might not like winter, the cold water being stored in Lake Cumberland at that time of year is important to the health and survival of trout, striped bass and walleye in the lake and its tailwater the following summer.
This time of year in Kentucky, fish deep points for success
July 18, 2009 by admin · Comments Off
The meeting of the land and the water often points out the fish for us.
This was, it seems to say, its earthen or rocky digit extended from shore outward, “Out here.”
Rodney Hairgrove knows that straight bank is never quite as attractive to bass as one with a wrinkle on it. The irregular shape of a point, a protrusion of the shore toward the deeper recesses of the water, is a double dose of fishing fortune: On one hand, it attracts and congregates the bass; on the other, it constitutes an often glaring feature that should flag the attention of the angler and usher him to where the fish wait.
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