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.
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