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License FeesFees are reasonable, with non-resident cost at $10.00 for a 1-day pass, $30.00 for 7-day pass,$40.00 for a 15 day license, and $50.00 for an annual non-resident Kentucky pass. Residents of Kentucky can purchase an annual license for $20.00, a husband & wife pass for $36.00 or a combined annual hunting & fishing license for $30.00. Angling InformationTIRED OF TRAFFIC? SUMMER SERENITY ON KENTUCKY LAKE.
Disbelief has suddenly changed your entire hopeful outlook. Brake lights from trailers standing end to end to end stretch for over a mile to the entrance of the launch site, all waiting for their turn at the ramp. It seems those acquaintances of yours told two friends the same thing they told you, and then they told two friends, and so on, and so on.....
By the time you get back to your boat, and motor out from the launch site the sun is well-up. The main lake looks like an assault of the Spanish Armada, and you find that all the spots you marked on your map are beset with a flotilla of anglers fighting over a single brush pile. After a couple hours of fruitless casts, line snags, and boat nudging, the situation suddenly worsens when a fleet of Sea Doos, ski boats and power yachts begin a counter-clockwise circular run around the lake. Huge swells from racing boats and deep V hulls, nearly swamp your craft into shore timber. You watch in horror as your line is run over by a hot shot waverunner punk intent on doing water-wheelies over the grass-bed. A water-skier drenches you in a blasting spray of roostertail art after nearly slamming into your side. You stare in disbelief at the aluminum launch with six anglers pulling alongside you, hauling in fish after fish using Zebcos and nets, while your livewell remains empty. You leave the lake that day sunburned, drenched, and without so much as nary a bite. A true story that many can tell.
But there is a solution to your frustration. If you want some peaceful serenity, space, and excellent fishing opportunities, plan a trip to Kentucky Lake. It's really not that far a drive, and great resorts on this 160,000 acre impoundment cater to the angler. Fishing pressure is light due to the sheer size of Kentucky Lake alone. Finding secluded bays near deep water off primary points is easy; they're everywhere. There's no closed angling season, licenses are affordable, public launches are free and the resorts and parks have fantastic concrete ramp sites. The natural state preserve that is Land Between The Lakes is breathtaking in it's wooded scenery, and the fish are big and nasty. Summer
offers a variety of fishing opportunities: bass, catfish,
sauger and white bass "stripes" feed aggressively
in the warming water. Early morning and late evenings are
key to great largemouth fishing in the timber cover and sunken
brush along shoreline from bass that come shallow to feed.
Good topwater time is right before dawn and twilight after
sunset. During the day, fishing drop offs along creek channels
and flats off deeper water using diving shad colored crankbaits,
Texas-rigged lizards and worms in chartreuse or dark blues
bounced off the ledges to the deeper pockets can produce large
and generous largemouth catches. Some minnow and crappie rigs can be bounced off the bottom to snag sauger and crappie, catfish baits fished in the deeper feeder creeks generally will produce hot catfish action. Finding river channels during hot sunny days and popping jigs, lead tailspinners, Roadrunner twister-tails and orange spinner-baits can produce large catches of white "stripes" bass. Minnow spins are good tools to use when surface water is filled with herded minnows being fed upon by stripers that grow to double digits on the main lake. Opportunities and presentations are virtually limitless. Many guides offer a variety of techniques and presentations that will all produce fish. Putting a pattern together may only take an hour or two if conditions are right. When the traffic and fishing pressure of your local fishing holes has you fed-up, plan a trip to the wonderful waters that make Kentucky Lake an absolute gem to fish this season. You will never look at your local lake the same way again. Beep. Beep
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Fishing
Big
Bear offers Guide Service directly out of our marina. Professional,
experienced licensed Guides will escort your fishing party
on a fully-rigged bass boat, providing gas, tackle and live
bait.
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Information:
You
can probably laugh about it now, but at the time it happens
it's nothing short of agony: Your regular fishing hole has
become so crowded with pleasure boaters and weekend anglers
that catching fish is nearly impossible in summer. So you
plan a weekend trip to what you've heard is a decent lake
about two hours drive from your metropolitan home. Comments
from acquaintances tell you that this is a promising lake,
not well-known and your hopes swell for an excellent trip
where you might actually catch fish. Hot Spots maps have been
studied and you have strategically planned your assaults in
chronological order. So with your boat rigged and polished,
your tackle, gear and coolers all stowed, you head out in
the wee hours of morning, expecting to be on the water before
sun-up.
So
now with everyone having the same idea you had, you wait quietly
fuming for your turn to launch. Finally after watching a boat
sink, a trailer jackknife, and a van stall after backing up
too far, you are all set to dump your boat in the drink. Suddenly
money is demanded from you for a lake sticker, inspection
tag and launch fee before you put in, the costs draining most
of the cash you have on hand. Shaking your head in disgust,
you put the boat in and pull out, hunting for a parking spot.
Two miles away you find the only place to park: a vacant lot
you have to pay for.
If
you live near a heavily populated area, this story has probably
happened to you on your attempts to fish nearby water. The
surging popularity of angling has created fishing pressure
on lakes and rivers near metropolitan areas.
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