| Kentucky Lake is known as one of the top crappie | | | | finding a bunch of brush piles and if we were on the |
| fishing lakes in the country. This lake produces a lot of | | | | brush piles we caught fish. If we would cast 10 to 15 |
| crappie and plenty of trophy-sized crappie year in and | | | | feet away from the brush piles we couldn't get a bite. |
| year out. I was able to go down to Kentucky Lake last | | | | The key to our success was moving from brush pile |
| spring to experience the crappie fishing. I ended up | | | | to brush pile catching one or two off of each spot. We |
| staying at the King Creek Resort and there were | | | | ended up catching plenty of crappie, although the bite |
| many good fishing spots within a short boat ride from | | | | was a tough one, and 5 crappie were in between 13 |
| the resort. | | | | and 15 inches. Most anglers vertically jig for crappie in |
| When I arrived at the resort, the weather was nice | | | | deeper water, but we were swimming small crappie |
| and I was excited to catch some of the spawning | | | | tubes on a tiny jig. The key to get a strike was to wind |
| crappie. I ended up getting there about a week too | | | | extremely slowly, just barely turning the reel. As our |
| early, but I figured that with some nice weather, we | | | | baits would slowly swim over the brush piles, the fish |
| would catch some fish deeper and some fish | | | | would bite. |
| shallower at the end of our week stay. We were | | | | I won't be going down to Kentucky Lake this year, but |
| expecting 3 or 4 days in the low 70s at the back end | | | | next year, I might head down there for the crappie |
| of our trip. A cold front ended up coming in during our | | | | spawn. I am going to wait until the spawn starts and I |
| first night there and it stayed cooler than expected | | | | will plan the trip last minute. If you can get to Kentucky |
| during our stay. The last day I was there, the air | | | | Lake when the crappie spawn is in full swing, you have |
| temperature warmed up to 77 degrees and the water | | | | a chance of catching your limit, especially if you hire a |
| was up to the mid to high 50s. | | | | guide. |
| Basically, we timed the crappie spawn wrong and had | | | | To find more information about the lake, fishing guides |
| to fish deep the entire week. It is a lot harder to find | | | | and fishing resorts, take a look at our Kentucky Lake |
| crappie in 16 to 20 feet of water than in 2 to 5 feet of | | | | fishing page. |
| water along any type of wooded cover. We ended up | | | | |