We love to sing about the fishing on Tennessee's Kentucky Lake. The crappie run begins each spring as fish move into shallow water to spawn, usually from late March to mid-May. However, crappie hit all year long. A pretty day in the winter can bring a good supply of hungry crappie out of the deep. In summer's heat and winter's cold, Mr. Crappie moves to deeper water, and he heads back in to shallows each fall.
Lantern fishing is popular on summer nights.
Among five species, blue and channel cats are the most caught. The world record blue catfish came from Tennessee's Kentucky Lake in 1971. By the time a biologist officially certified the catch, four days after it was taken from the water, it weighed 115 pounds, and that was about 10 pounds less than it was believed to have weighed when caught. We'll admit that's an unusually big fish. Smaller and good-eating cats are more common.