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.
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Teenager yanks 10+ pound largemouth from Tom Wallace Lake
May 3, 2009 by admin · Comments Off
Dana Tindall says her teenage son, who is home schooled, fishes nearly every day after school. You can bet he never before had a day like last Saturday.
courier-journal.com | Gary Garth blog | The Courier-Journal.
His first big musky
April 27, 2009 by admin · Comments Off
Growing up fishing in farm ponds for largemouth bass and bluegill was training for what happened on April 9, 2009.
While fishing at Cave Run Lake with my father-in-law, who happens to be a great guide, I had my first run in with the fish of 10,000 casts. As I bumped a 1/4-ounce spinner across a log — boom — suddenly, a lanky creature appeared. Two seconds later I was fighting my first Muskellunge, albeit a small one.
When taking kids fishing, it’s not about you
April 27, 2009 by admin · Comments Off
I love to fish so much that I’ve nearly trashed our van on Interstate 75 because I was gazing at South Elkhorn Creek instead of watching the road. I store fishing gear in my car, I’ve raised night crawlers in my kitchen, and I’ve stayed up for 24 hours straight because fish were biting.
I tell you this only because I want you to know that I’m serious when I offer one important piece of advice about taking kids fishing:
Leave your own rod at home.
If you don’t, it will be impossible to follow the second rule of fishing with a kid:
You only have 10 minutes.
Last-Minute Entry Lands Kentucky Auto Parts Production Worker $100,000 Prize in Fantasy Fishing Game
February 22, 2009 by admin · Comments Off
Berea's Terry Moberly decided at the last minute to enter the FLW Fantasy Fishing Game Contest. The decision won him $100,000.
To win FLW Fantasy Fishing, or any contest for that matter, you have to enter. And entering at the last minute counts just as much as if you entered days, weeks or even months before.
That’s what Terry Moberly, 45, a resident of Berea, Ky., a small town near Lexington, Ky., learned. Last Wednesday, Feb. 11, with less than four hours until the closing bell on FLW Fantasy Fishing picks for the first tournament, Moberly registered at fantasyfishing.com. Using Player’s Advantage, an online tool that provides “inside” information about FLW Tour bass pros, Moberly picked 10 bass pros from among a field of 157 that would be competing the very next morning in the first of six tournaments that make up the Walmart FLW Tour, professional bass fishing’s largest and most prestigious tournament circuit.
Teen catches state record, 47-pound muskellunge
November 14, 2008 by admin · Comments Off
Frankfort, Ky. – A 14-year-old freshman at Montgomery County High School landed a 47-pound muskellunge while fishing with her family on Cave Run Lake Nov. 2. Sarah Terry’s fish is now Kentucky’s state record muskellunge.
“I saw it come to the boat,” she said. “It went under the boat and then came back out and hit it. It really chomped that bait. If I had a dollar for every time I said ‘Oh, my God,’ I would be rich.”
Terry and her stepfather, Scott Salchli, were fishing the edge of a weed bed near the Claylick Boat Ramp late in the afternoon when the fish struck. Terry caught the record muskie on a Double Cowgirl in-line spinner with two size 10 gold blades and a purple skirt.
The 54-inch fish succumbed as Terry made a figure eight in the water with her lure. Muskellunge that follow a lure but don’t strike often fall for this old trick.
“She did the figure eight perfectly,” Salchli said. “She made really good, wide circles. The fish struck just as she was making her second figure eight.”
What to do if you catch a state record fish
November 14, 2008 by admin · Comments Off
Frankfort, Ky. – The waters of Cave Run Lake surrendered another state record muskellunge when Sarah Terry caught a 47-pounder Nov. 2.
Terry, a 14-year old freshman at Montgomery County High School, and her stepfather, Scott Salchli, went through the proper steps to make sure her catch was certified as the official state record. If you catch what you think is a potential state record fish, you must follow the correct instructions to insure your fish makes the official state record fish list. This list is on page 33 and 34 of the 2008 Kentucky Fishing and Boating Guide.
First, you must catch the fish by pole and line. Fish taken by commercial gear, trotlines, gigging, snagging, limb lines, hand grabbing or bow fishing are not eligible for state records.
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.
