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 that rivals Bulls fans seeking limited tickets to a playoff game. 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.
There's no closed angling season, licenses are affordable, public launches are free and the resorts and parks have fantastic concrete ramp sites. Land Between The Lakes is breathtaking in it's wooded scenery, and the fish are big and nasty. 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.