Barren River Lake
RECEIVE FISHING REPORT UPDATES!
Rating - Good
Friday, Mar 03 2023
Temp: Lower 40s. Lake is 6ft above winter pool, and rising. Bass are being caught on spinnerbaits, blade baits, and jigs. Targeting main lake channels and drops. Crappie are being found in upper reaches of the lake in clearer water, fish jigs and minnows.
About
A relatively new lake, created in 1964 by the earthen Barren River Lake Dam, this section of the Barren River grew into a 10,000-acre reservoir.The lake is unique in the heavily forested Kentucky countryside since it is surrounded by grass rather than trees.
It is considered one of the best fishing lakes in Kentucky. A wide variety of warm water fish including largemouth, white, and hybrid striped bass, bluegill, channel catfish, crappie, and rough fish such as carp, suckers, buffalo, and gar make this an angling paradise.
From a boat or along the ample shoreline this lake offers great fishing throughout the year.
Techniques & Tips
Everything that swims in these waters will hit a nightcrawler or red wiggler. They can all be caught bottom fishing, and everything aside from channel cats will hit a worm and bobber rig as well.These techniques are the preferred method for crappie and bluegills, but bass can be taken with more traditional angling styles.
Though it's in Kentucky, this lake remains a southern body of water when it comes to bass fishing.
Tossing poppers or plastic worms from a boat, hitting areas covered in lily pads, or surrounded by heave brush with jitterbugs, crankbaits, or artificial topwater lures resembling frogs, crawdads, or mice makes the water boil on a strike.
Channel cats can reach tremendous size, so fish with heavier braided line, larger hooks, number two to double-ought and bait them with liver, doughballs, or stink bait.
Barren River Lake
RECEIVE FISHING REPORT UPDATES!
Rating - Good
Temp: Lower 40s. Lake is 6ft above winter pool, and rising. Bass are being caught on spinnerbaits, blade baits, and jigs. Targeting main lake channels and drops. Crappie are being found in upper reaches of the lake in clearer water, fish jigs and minnows.
About
A relatively new lake, created in 1964 by the earthen Barren River Lake Dam, this section of the Barren River grew into a 10,000-acre reservoir.The lake is unique in the heavily forested Kentucky countryside since it is surrounded by grass rather than trees.
It is considered one of the best fishing lakes in Kentucky. A wide variety of warm water fish including largemouth, white, and hybrid striped bass, bluegill, channel catfish, crappie, and rough fish such as carp, suckers, buffalo, and gar make this an angling paradise.
From a boat or along the ample shoreline this lake offers great fishing throughout the year.
Techniques & Tips
Everything that swims in these waters will hit a nightcrawler or red wiggler. They can all be caught bottom fishing, and everything aside from channel cats will hit a worm and bobber rig as well.These techniques are the preferred method for crappie and bluegills, but bass can be taken with more traditional angling styles.
Though it's in Kentucky, this lake remains a southern body of water when it comes to bass fishing.
Tossing poppers or plastic worms from a boat, hitting areas covered in lily pads, or surrounded by heave brush with jitterbugs, crankbaits, or artificial topwater lures resembling frogs, crawdads, or mice makes the water boil on a strike.
Channel cats can reach tremendous size, so fish with heavier braided line, larger hooks, number two to double-ought and bait them with liver, doughballs, or stink bait.
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