The water on Fayette County Lake is very clear and thus once the sun gets up above the horizon, the fish are not able to stay in the shallows unless there is moss or other cover. Early is a great time to throw a variety of crank baits that change with the time of the year. We have lost a lot of our cover for one reason or another and this has caused the very experienced Fayette County fishermen to change a lot of their fishing techniques. We are now taking a lot of the fishermen out and demonstrating always changing fishing techniques that are now required in order to catch a good number of fish on each trip. The cover is starting to come back in several areas of the lake and thus the patterns will change again as the cover increases.
Seasonal patterns require different fishing techniques and baits.
January - April are generally our staging and spawning periods as Fayette County Lake is a Power Plant Lake. May - July is when we can usually catch Big Bass in the 6 to 8 pound class. August - September is our world famous time for open water school bass. Fayette County Lake school bass are 3 pounders. October - December offers great top water and worm fishing in the grass bed's.