Pursuing Musky on Eastern Kentucky’s Buckhorn Lake
August 25, 2008 by admin · Comments Off
Gentle release: Guide Gene Smith releases a 37-inch musky caught on a Cobbs jerk bait very close to wood cover.
By Chris Poore
Guide Gene Smith was only a few hundred yards from the marina, racing his boat down the center of Buckhorn Lake, when he abruptly took a 90-degree turn into a small cove. He turned with such suddenness and at such speed that I assumed he had seen someone in trouble back in the cove. “He’s going back there to help them,” I thought.
Turns out he was looking for somebody.
Over the past few weeks, Smith had been throwing his oversized jerkbait at one particular tree submerged in the water. Several times, a three-foot-long fish rose from the depths to take a look at it.
But each time, the fish sank back down.
Smith had remembered that fish, and he wanted another crack at it.
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