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Paris Landing Fishing Report
Provided by Jim Perry - June 20, 2006
Crappie
The crappie continue to bite although a lot of small
"under legal size" fish are being caught. There have
been some good quality keeper fish caught but it seems
some days are better than others. The guides are still
fishing and catching their crappie in 12 to 15 foot
manmade structure on the Big Sandy. They are vertical
fishing minnows and some are tipping jigs with minnows.
There are some fishermen who pull or long-line jigs and
crankbaits that are beginning to catch some crappie in
the deeper depths as some of the crappie are beginning
to move toward their summertime patterns of deeper water
along the ledges or dropoffs. Reports say a lot of small
crappie are being caught by the trollers but that will
change in due time and they will catch larger fish.
Bass
Some recent big money bass tournaments have taken place
in the past couple of weeks on KY Lake. Today (Saturday
June 17) a tournament out of Paris Landing State Park
drew approx 115 boats. I attended the weigh-in but left
before it was over and the winner had 21 lbs in five
bass. Big fish of the event weighed slighty over 6 lbs.
There were several teams with five bass weighing in the
15 lb range. The majority of these bass were caught by
fishing deeper ledges along the main TN River channels
or on the Big Sandy Basin dropoffs/ledges. Crankbaits,
jigs and carolina rigs accounted for most of those fish
caught in deep water. Other fishermen fished in shallow
water and caught bass but the winner fished deep ledges.
Bluegill
For the most part the bluegill have spawned . There are
always a few late spawners and some can still be caught
on the beds but for the remainder of the summer most of
the bluegill will be caught under the willow fly hatches
along the shoreline. You can cast small jigs, spinners
and top water poppers for the bluegill under those
willow flies hatches.
Catfish
Most of the catfish have spawned and are returning to
deep water ledges along the river channel. This is not
to say some fish can't be caught shallow along the rocks
but most have spawned and left shallow water (4-5 ft).
Some fishermen are attempting to jug or drift fish but
reports are slow since there hasn't been enough river
current to get the cats in a feeding mood. Vertical
fishing the dropoffs along the main river channel will
start paying off in depths of 25 to 45 feet but there
needs to be current for that type fishing to be
successful also.
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