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Steve McCadams'
Kentucky Lake Fishing Report for:
October 28th, 2005
Crappie fishing on Kentucky Lake continues to hold well, despite the
visit of a cold front earlier this week, escorted by strong northwest
winds.
Warmer conditions chased away the cool spell by midweek and
conditions look good going into the weekend. It appears November will
kick off with normal temperatures that should keep fall fishing going
strong.
Lake levels continue to stay near winter pool as the lack of rain
hasn’t sent much rain through the TVA valley lately. Kentucky Lake was
resting around the 354.4 mark at both Kentucky Dam and upstream at New
Johnsonville.
Surface temperatures took a plunge earlier this week when the bone
chilling winds delivered the cold front. Presently, surface temperatures
are in the 59 to 63 degree range.
Water color remains clear throughout most of the Big Sandy area with
minor stain in the main Tennessee River sector.
Crappie continue to hold on structure in the 7 to 13 foot zone. Fish
have been relating to brush, stumps, and manmade fish attractors in that
depth range.
There was some improvement in the 16 to 20 foot zone this week as
anglers there were scoring a few pretty good fish while using bottom
bumping rigs armed with jigs and minnows,
Meanwhile, chartreuse, white, red and hot pink leadheads have worked
well on skirts such as blue and white, chartreuse with red metal flake,
and various shades of green.
Tipping jigs with minnows is still producing well.
Some good numbers of crappie have been taken on a consistent basis
for several weeks now here in the Paris Landing area.
Bass continue to chase shad on shallow gravel banks where several
anglers have scored using topowater. Storms’s Chug-Bug, Rebel’s Pop-R,
and Heddon’s Zara Spook in the chrome, pearl, or silver and black have
worked well.
A few fish were in shallow grass in the upper ends of bays where
spinnerbaits and some floating flukes were fool some fish into striking.
Shad and pearl colored crankbaits are also working well on gravel
and rock points. The low lake levels expose a lot of cover for bass
anglers to fish and those stickups are holding fish.
Look for moderate temperatures to enter the picture this weekend and
into next week with fishing improving now that cold fronts have come and
gone. Most anglers are hoping for some cloud cover and a light rain
wouldn’t be all bad either.
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Steve McCadams
Steve McCadams is one of the nation's best known Crappie Fishermen
and a full time resident of Paris, Tennessee. Steve is also a
professional hunting and fishing guide here in the Paris Landing area.
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