The lake level is at 602.65 or roughly two-feet over summer pool. They are gradually bringing it back down.
Water temps are about 64-66 and the lake has good color. South end very clear, north stained but fishable.

“CRAPPIE”
Even though most will argue the crappie spawn is still going on. Believe me it has wrapped up. Those with eggs still in them will absorb them over the next few weeks. That being said I am out on summer haunts waiting on them. Most are suspended waiting on a shad spawn like everything else. I am running Shelby cubes and down trees on channel banks using a slip bobber and minnow. Tail hooked so the minnow never stops struggling. Setting the cork high enough to drift across cubes and staying back and watching for a hungry crappie to charge out of the cube after it. My forward facing allows me to see fish on cubes or suspended in trees. Give this pattern about three weeks and it will get a lot better.

“WALLEYE/SAUGER”
I am pulling bottom bouncers and single hook spinner rigs tipped with a minnow. On line counter reels at about 1-1.3 mph. On edges of flats, ends of points, mouths of coves, just about everywhere. Looking for walleye so far 99% have been sauger. Which means a lot of fish just shy of 14in. Coming years our sauger population is going to explode. We are getting at least fifteen a day. Best so far has been 6 over 14in. But just started a couple days ago. We need water temps to get above 70 to trigger a shad spawn then for about a month the walleye bite will be pretty good. Then they switch up their feeding habits to night time so I cannot chase them.

“WHITE BASS”
I am pulling bottom bouncers for them as well. I tell clients we are looking for walleye but a hundred white bass get in the way. They live very close to each other on windy points or edges with wind blowing into them. Tricky looking for whites you must understand wind movement how it effects where bait will be positioned.

I am also getting on top of big schools on very windy days and using my jigging spoon/hair jig combo. Love doing this and catching two big whites at the same time. We are just jigging it off bottom and allowing it to fall back. They just hammer it then give it a few seconds and get a second one.

Once the walleye bite slows I will be doing Crappie/White bass combo trips all summer with my spoon and slip bobber set ups. Clients love these, lot’s of action and plenty of meat to bring home.

Currently I have…..
July 6,7,8,10-15,18,28-30
August 1,10-14,17-22,24-29,31
September 1-15 all of these above are combo trips on Shelbyville

Kentucky Lake crappie
September 17-22,30 will add more once these are filled.

Steve Welch
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