Fishing Report

March is really the signal to anglers that spring fishing has arrived. From warmer days, daylight savings time giving us until 7pm to fish and the movement of many different species of fish from their winter deep haunts on the main lake to the bays to begin their annual migration towards the spawn. It really […]

Photo courtesy Matt Foster Cornfield Fishing Gear hosts their second annual demo days event on Kentucky Lake on April 25-26, 2025 for anglers and fans of fishing to come out and meet with a bunch of the country’s best crappie anglers as well as many of the companies around crappie fishing and marine electronics. Not

Photo by Jason Sealock Fishing in February always feels like the kickoff to the fishing season for us on the West Kentucky Fisheries. After generally having our coldest days in January, and all of the hunting seasons passing, most outdoorsmen and avid anglers turn their full attention back to fishing. And it can be some

Kentucky and Barkley Lakes have been among crappie anglers’ top destinations from all over the country for many years. The anglers have regarded our lakes as top crappie fisheries for decades and the lakes continue to crank out not only numbers but size. Offering a wide array of ways to fish for and catch both

Photo by Jason Sealock Kentucky Lake holds some of the best fishing in the country and has been given the moniker of the South’s Great Lake for it’s massive size. It’s the largest reservoir east of the Mississippi and one of the largest in the country stretching some 180 miles from dam to dam. It

Photo by Jason Sealock Winter brings some of its harshest weather it seems in January to Western Kentucky and that alone can make a January fishing tough. But there are still some good bites we find every January when the weather cooperates at the beginning of the year.  With water temps often at their coldest

Photo by Jason Sealock. Fishing in the winter can be very rewarding although much different from fishing in the warmer months on Kentucky and Barkley Lakes. Obviously colder temperatures require some precautions and colder water means the fish are not as active as they are in warmer water temps, but they can be very predictable.

Winter always seems to sneak in at the very last second at Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley. It takes forever to cool down and then fall is like 4 hours and then it’s winter. So you don’t get much time to prepare for it before it is upon you. While it may be hard on

November is a wildly good month for fishing on Kentucky and Barkley Lakes. The cooling temperatures get the fish active before winter sets in. This can make for lots of fish catching action regardless of what species you like to catch. As you saw in the Kentucky and Barkley Lakes Fishing Calendar, November is a