Caught this Kentucky bass a couple weeks ago while crappie fishing, using a 1/8 ounce round head jig with a chartreuse curly tail, my favorite lure for crappie. The crappie spawn is just about over but there are still a lot of fish up in the shallows, less than ten feet of water. The lake is in the "flood" stage, great time to fish for bass in the flooded buck brush up in the bays. My fishing pal likes to toss a torpedo around the brush, has good results, gets tangled up a lot too, all of those dangling hooks. My favorite bass offering is a quarter ounce round headed jig with black buck tail with about a three inch plastic worm tail. More often than not, I usually am either vertical jigging around the brush or making short underhanded casts to the brush and letting the jig fall. If you fish jigs regularly, you probably realize that the bass usually hit the jig on the fall, crappie do the same. The water temperature is between 65º and 70º, prime Spring fishing time.
Finally got the Thistle varnished, had to wait for a couple consecutive warm and dry days to do the work, tough to find such weather here during the early Spring. She looks pretty nice for an old boat (circa early '60's), anxious to get her in the water and sail the lake, should be sailing within the next week or so.
Kentucky Lake Sailing Club has had two races so far this season, check out the most recent race results at klsc.net.
