6-1-25 - Fish and Wildlife Reports

On tonight's show, Jim and Scott give fish and wildlife reports from across the region.

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 2 (01:00):
Good evening, everybody. Jim Straighter here and we have got
an information pack show for you tonight. We're going to
talk about some recent action by the can Tell Your
Department official WILFE Resources Commission about the CWD response situation,
which we reported to you here recently. Scott an idea

(01:24):
of program about that and give you our thoughts. And
we're going to talk tonight about the results of their
recent vote going forward, and the important thing to tell
you about that is these things are still pending. In
other words, there's some finalization that needs to occur, but
we'll give you the report on what they've voted for

(01:47):
and how that looks going forward. Most importantly, we got
some great fish activity reports. The lakes in many cases
are still very very high, twelve to fifteen feet over
summer pool, but fish activity has really been good. Despite

(02:07):
all that, some of the lakes is still difficult to
get in at the ramps, but the folks that are
getting out are catching some really nice fish. We're gonna
talk about spawning because this has been the most scattered
and smothered spawning activity I've ever seen in many, many
many years. I've reached out to a lot of my

(02:30):
friends that are my age, and I'm you know, right
up there where I can look back in time and
give you reports that are very different than what we're
seeing now. And my friends that I reached out to
were all sixty five plus and there's just some things
we've not ever seen before. So we're gonna talk about that.

(02:53):
We're gonna talk to about fawn drop by the white
tailed deer, We're gonna talk about the turkey, and all
kind of reports about bass, crappie, blue gill, catfish, et cetera.
So we got a real duke's mixture of things we're
going to talk about tonight. And Scott Croner, let's talk

(03:16):
about I guess starting off the bat since it's a
kind of a follow up from what we did a
couple of weeks ago about this vote by the Commission
on the cw D response, I'll let you lead. I'll
kind of put my two cents in afterwards, but let's
give folks a breakdown if we can't.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
The main breakdown is that Henderson County, Union County, and
Webster County are all now depending on final vote and
the Commission process, of being in that CWD surveillance zone.
But with the onset of the positive deer that was

(03:59):
found up in Indiana, Southern Indiana. It started to ball
rowing pretty quick, and the commission come to agreeants that
we need to move forward by voting at their last
meeting with a September gun season, and that we needed
to allow baiting and mineral use to be brought back

(04:22):
in the CWD zones. And to be completely clear on it, Jim,
what it boils down to right now is that the
commissioners that represent each of our districts have voted in
favor of bringing back the use of bait or supplemental
feeding and being able to put out mineral. But the

(04:45):
change now that's going to come is with this vote
to move forward and try to get it passed and
officially put into action of where we have a September
gun season in those counties that are in the CWD
surveillance zones. So what that does for the folks that

(05:06):
are into bowl hunting, You need to listen. This is
straight from the reports at the last Commission meeting. If
you are a bowl hunter that particular weekend, not only
do you have to wear orange, but you will not
be allowed to legally harvest a mail deer with archery equipment,

(05:28):
whether that's a compound bow, traditional bow or you know.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Recurve, vertical whatever.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
So that kind of puts a little bit of a
damper out there those folks that are waiting on that
opportunity to harvest a buck and a trophy comes in
many different forms, shapes and sizes, but I do hate
that it handcuffs are archery brothers and sisters on a
weekend that many of them are out trying to you know,

(05:56):
accomplish getting a deer within a lot closer yardage than
the modern forearm. It also brings a little bit of
a damper two from what I advocate for. And a
lot of folks will say, well, we'll give youth another opportunity.
It will, but now we're gonna have one more possible
modern firearm season, like I said, in those CEWD surveillance zones,

(06:19):
and it's gonna give people opportunity to get out and
educate and disturb the deer on their pattern prior to
the young people getting out there with the youth season.
And part of that Youth season JIM, when it was
originally established, was for use to have the opportunity to
harvest a deer and have a higher than average chance

(06:41):
because those deer hadn't seen a tremendous amount of pressure yet,
so I'm not in favor of the September.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Gun season myself.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
I think we have plenty of opportunities to harvest our deer,
and we just need to do a better job of
advocating for folks to harvest deer during the regular sea
and I don't see the need for another Blaze orange weekend.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
I'm totally in concert with you on that. And it's
particularly honest to me that the bowl hunters have to
wear orange because anybody that's bowl hunting much knows how
hard it is to draw on a deer at close quarters,
which of course is where you are able to harvest
deer with archery equipment. But most importantly, I have no

(07:28):
idea how the harvest of a buck with a bowl
on one of those weekends in late September has any
place in the scheme of things. And here's the reason
I'm saying that if this early effort is aimed at
putting more deer where they can be harvested and tested,

(07:53):
I'm okay with that. I can't really, you know, take
the commission to too much of a task on that
particular portion of it. But why in the world they said, Okay,
but you bow hunters can't take a buck. Now, I
understand the legalities of that. Where a guy could kill

(08:15):
a buck with a gun and they say I killed
it with a bowl. I'm not oblivious to that. But
you know what, that's why we have game workers. So
it's if that's the case, if that's the reason they
did it, then I'll return that argument another way. Okay,
if you're saying that a guy could kill that with

(08:39):
a gun and say it was with a bull, well
turn it the other way, because a guy with a gun,
if he sees a big buck, can kill it. Wait
till later and tell a check it and guess what.
For all appearances, it's legal. So I hope they're mindful
of that as they finalize this going forward, because it's

(09:00):
a little bit nonsensical and the bull hunters continue to
take these regulations on the chin. I don't think it's fair.
I don't like it. You know, I'm an archery hunter,
been one my whole life, and it's it's just not
a good precedent going forward. This was about go ahead, Scott.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Well more importantly, we as we go through it's just
bad timing, and when you look at other states as
well that have put this into place, these extra seasons,
the amount of deers that the average hunter harvest does
not go up. And multiple states you're looking at anywhere

(09:47):
from one point five to one point seven deer the
majority of the states that Kentucky is close to as
far as what the average hunter tends to take per year.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
So even the erna.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
Buck pro or to shoot a dough before buck, all
of these things that have been put into place. It's
it's more or less a way for government to act like, hey,
we're making some changes in regulations, but it's really not
finding or putting the problem at rest. And that is
CWD is going to be in the state of Kentucky.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
It's going to increase in time.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
The seasons that we have and how those dates are
set are going to be important that we're active, and
I think more than importantly, it's an important time for
folks to reach out to the commissioners and with the
weather and dealing with processors, just tracking deer, deer spoolage,
farmers being in the field getting their grain crops out.

(10:44):
It's just it's it's a weekend. A lot of us
are still actively involved with some of our waterfowl seasons,
early waterfowl seasons and dove hunting, and it's just bad
when you look at all things. There have been something
that had a little more discussion, I thought when it
was brought to the table.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
I totally agree, and I don't know why they didn't
wait and do it during gun season because CWD is
not going to explode in a few months difference from
September to modern gun and they could do a much
more efficient job in my opinion, during gun season. However, again,

(11:25):
if it's about testing the deer, that's fine. I want
to close this discussion out with something that's an important
point of consideration, and that is the baiting and the mineral.
That's a positive note. I love the fact that this commission,
this new commission, which is fairly new, was smart enough

(11:48):
and on top of their game enough to realize that
baiting and mineral does not spread the disease. It's not
been shown to spread the disease, and in fact it's
detrimental to the deer herd. Supplemental feeding, whether you want
to call it bainting or whatever, is not the problem.
So if it was, then as I've said repeatedly, the

(12:10):
most social thing animals do is a licking branch. You're
not gonna outlaw that, certainly. So I'm delighted they did that,
and we'll see how this regulation goes forward. But to
your point, there just doesn't seem to be the desire
to participate in that kind of season, especially this early

(12:33):
in the year. So I'm gonna make a prediction they're
gonna kill some deer, no doubt about it. But after
the season's over, we're gonna see where all this actually
falls out, and we're gonna see in those counties if
it significantly increases harvest. I don't think it will. I'll

(12:56):
go on record, I do not think it will. What
I mean by signific get any percentage you want to
pick that you think, sure significant, I don't think it's
gonna do it. So if it's about the testing, okay,
we do that. But as we move forward, I'm really
gonna be having a keen eye on what all this

(13:18):
producer is coming back. All right, folks were going to
break here. Coming back from the break, we're gonna talk
wildlife notes and a lot of fishing. We got a
lot of fish activity to report, fishing is really really
on fire right now. By all standards, we're gonna see
activity in June that we usually see in May. And

(13:38):
all of you that listen to me for years, no,
I always say, if you can't catch them in May,
you can't catch them. So we're gonna report on that.
We would love to have your reports about wildlife, our fish.
We're gonna have lines open tonight. The numbers are five
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(14:21):
Remember you never get soaked by my friends at SMI.
All right, folks, again, we're reporting on the recent Chucky
Department of Fishing while I Resources Commission vote on the
special deer season in the situation with the CWD discovering
in Posey County, Indiana, and Scott furthering that discussion, There's

(14:47):
some things, folks, in those counties need to think about
if they're going to participate in that September gun season.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
There is because depending on what folks do as far
as their deer meat is concerned, your venison needs to
be deboned if you're going to travel outside of that
CWD surveillance zone. So a lot of folks are going

(15:17):
to be left with trying to figure out where or
what they're going to do with their meat. A lot
of times folks will, you know, enjoy fresh tender, lowin
and all that, but especially products have gotten to be
so popular amongst deer and folks just grinding up deer
has become so popular with spaghettis and tacos and all those.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
Meals that we enjoy.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
But when you have a special antlerless controlled hunt, and
that's what these are, we have to remember that it
should be during the time of the year and which
deer can be harvested and large numbers.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
That's what we're trying to do.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
We're trying to reduce the population. So late season hunts
ten in my opinion, take advantage of this. Because deer
are on food sources. You can harvest multiple deer from
one setting, and most importantly, you have the temperature on
your side. And while we may get some decent weather

(16:26):
in September, I can just about put some betting money
down that more than likely you're not going to have
weather in September to allow your deer to hang overnight
in your barn, or to keep it, you know, laid
in the bake of your truck, covered up, whatever it
is that you do with your deer once you harvest it.

(16:46):
The other thing that scares me a little bit about
a September gun season is how quickly we could get
into some hot temperatures and you have a poor place
shot or something happened to where deer's not recovered immediately,
the use of the meat could be on question because
of spoilage. But nowhere through this process that I know of,

(17:12):
have the processors that actually take the deer meat in
really given their opinion openly and honestly about this. But
when it comes time for deer processors to take animals in,
a lot of these processors will have temporary and seasonal help,

(17:34):
and they do that normally during the modern gun season
when they're particularly getting the most deer harvested and brought in.
So I'm scared and worried in one perspective that maybe
some of our meat processors won't be able to handle
the volume of deer that could possibly come in if

(17:54):
this season does grow. I'm not sure that it's going
to be the best time of the year and planning
for them, because, like you Jim, a lot of times,
whenever you go and visit a processing facility, when the
temperature is right, it's easy for them to have twenty
five or thirty deer outside CWD, samples being taken, heads

(18:18):
being prepared for the taxidermist. But you start getting a
seventy eighty degree night in September, I'm not sure that
you're going to be able to have twenty twenty five
deer laid out on a concrete floor in a gravel
parking lot, getting them prepped to be hung to put
into the coolers. And several of our processors will need

(18:39):
to make some adaptations, not just the hunters. So when
it comes to me, I'm not going to be dropping
three or four deer to debone on a September night,
where if it was in December, there's a chance at
you know, harvesting three to five deer.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
You know something that I could do very easily.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yes, sir, totally. It's just something I hope they turn
their minds on. For all this is finalized, and I
know they again feel the need to do something and
I totally get that, but they were put in a
tough situation. Actually, a lot of these are new commissioners.

(19:18):
This popped up, you know, in an odd time, so
we'll see how it orals out. All we can do
is report the news and we'll tell you what we
think about it, and you can agree or disagree to
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Check them out mop h A r T realty dot com. Again, everybody,
we're gonna talk about a lot of fish activity here
in the next few minutes, but first I want to
close out kind of some of the things that are
going on with wildlife, because Scott, there's a a whole
lot to talk about there in general. Let's start with

(20:07):
fawn drop by the white tailed deer, because it's really
in full bloom right now. And what I mean by
that is these doves are dropping fauns like crazy. I
hate it when I drive up and down the highway,
as I've been doing a lot the last oh two

(20:27):
weeks or so, when it's gonna get even worse and
see these dead do deer on the highway that are
moving to find spots that are ideal for them to
drop their fawns. It's always a tragic thing for me
to see that. But be that as it may. It
is happening right now. The full moon two weeks ago,

(20:51):
the dark moon this week, they're dropping fauns like crazy.
And Scott, I know you have a lot of concerns
about that in terms of the agricultural aspect. Being an
ad guy, talk a little bit about that, if you would.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
We're seeing late hay cutting because of the weather. We're
seeing quite a bit of delayed agriculture across the country,
not just in our little core area. I mean, it's
something that's not just specific to.

Speaker 5 (21:25):
Our little area.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
And what that does is it puts those fawns at
a much higher risk. Now as a lot of this
production ag does become priority number one for someone's livelihood,
and with mowing practices even being looked at in areas
being avoided to when it's.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
Time to make hay, you got to make hay.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
And it's putting a lot of folks that are conservationists
themselves into a position where they do not want.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
To cause fatality to the deer herd.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
But it's going to happen, and we'll probably have a
little bit higher than average percentage of funds killed by
farm implements this spring, is my prediction. But there are
some things that we can do right now that a
lot of times folks will overlook, and that is with
our delayed planning and a lot of farmers trying to

(22:21):
rush now and get green into the ground, especially with
our corn and sweebeans, we're in a target rich environment
for some great kyoti hunting, and folks that don't have
a whole lot of time can still take advantage of
this because our sunrises are so early and our sunsets

(22:43):
are getting later, so before and after work makes for
some really prime opportunity to get in and do some
hunting with some calling and stretch those rifles out just
a little bit. But if at all possible, if you
can avoid mowing for the next two to four weeks,
please do so. Not just with the fawn drop, but

(23:07):
also with our turkey popes and all of our other
drown nesting predators. That it impacts everything. Our quail, our rabbits,
our turkeys are deer, and we will see the peak
of the fawn drop in my predictions over the next
ten to fourteen days.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yes, sir, and turkeys are really a big concern because
if you backdate things, we're right now where they're either
set or got little ones and continueing you said, I
should say, and that's a big deal. And to your point,
a farmer's got to do what a farmer's got to do.

(23:46):
We all understand that. And God bless them because without them,
a lot of these critters wouldn't have food. So that's
a part of the equation you cannot change. However, what
we are saying is, with the way the weather patterns
have been rain upon rain, lush growth, it's gonna be

(24:09):
a late hay cut and it's gonna happen at a
time that's gonna be detrimental. Unfortunly, there's nothing going to
do about that, but all we do is report it.
But if you don't need to cut like you're just
bushhol good, please stay off of it right now. This
is critical time, and I think that's what we're trying
to say.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
Yep, And we have a blessing and a curse again.
In the ten day forecast. After about Wednesday of this week,
it looks like we're gonna be hit with some thunderscorms
and rain, and we'll talk about how that's gonna impact fishing,
but it could be a blessing from Mother nature to
let those faunds get get down and get ahead of schedule.

(24:51):
I know, through some of my travels this past week
through the Northeast, speaking with a lot of farmers in Vermont,
I was pleasant surprised at how many of those farmers
put the wildlife first. And they knew that if they
would delay their hay cutting for a couple of weeks,

(25:13):
that it wouldn't necessarily impact their second cutting of hay.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
But if they would delay that.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Two weeks, and they knew that that equipment, just the
noise and the disruption in the field, those fawns would
be mature enough, strong enough and have their wits to
them enough to get up and get out of the way.
And so you learn and see a lot of different
things in your travels, and one of the things that
I took back from this most recent trip was the

(25:41):
fact that those folks out.

Speaker 4 (25:43):
There were very, very.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
You know, as far as at peace with letting their
hay go and understanding that it was best for the
wildlife and man. If that could be carried on and
spread through the rest of the country, that would be
such a such a great thing. But the rains put
everybody in a bind. It's put fishing in a difficult.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
Place for us, and which we'll talk about. It's it's
put just.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Overall, the turkey hatch in a in a big question mark,
kind of like the craffee spawn. We don't know what's
gonna come.

Speaker 4 (26:18):
Of this year's flock.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
There's a lot of interesting concern with the cicadas that
are out there and how they're gonna benefit the turkey pots.
But a lot of us are kind of sitting back
and nervously awaiting, you know, how good our hatch is
gonna be the spring, especially along the areas that were
impacted by the floods, and not just the floods, the

(26:42):
amount of damage, uh and the types of weather that
we had from the tornadoes across our area is gonna
let us see if Mother Nature is gonna prevail or
be set back on this one.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Jim, It's sure been a weird, weird other year. I mean,
I'm again, I'm at an age where I feel comfortable
talking about this. We're seeing some things this year, and
I'm a guy that pays attention. I've been nature minded
since I was a child. It's just you know the
way I'm bent, if you will, and I think anybody

(27:19):
knows me will attest to that in a big way,
especially my school teachers. But what I'm saying is this
is one of the oddest combinations of inclement weather that
I've seen in my lifetime. And I'm three quarters of

(27:39):
a century old, so I'm not talking about some little
blip on the radar here. And I've reached out to
my friends that are my age, and all of us
have agreed. This is the most screwy weird spawning season,
wind patterned season, inclement weather season that I can ever remember.

(28:01):
And it will have a fact and we'll report on
it as we go along. But I just well, I'll
put it this way, Scott. We're gonna talk about that,
and now it's kind of set the plate on a
positive side for fishing going forward. I'm gonna stop on
that note and we'll explain that in detail coming back

(28:22):
from break again. If you have reports, we would love
to hear from you. The numbers are five seven one
eighty four eighty four or eight hundred four four four
eighty four eighty four. We'll take wildlife reports, fish reports.
We'd love to hear how you're observing things. Whether you

(28:44):
again agree or disagree, that's fine with us. We'll take
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friends at s am I Scott. We've been talking about

(29:09):
these wildlife notes, and I think he's very appropriate here
to say this is the number two time of year
when you do have to be on the lookout for
deer in terms of automobile collisions. I alluded to that
earlier about the number of deer I'm seeing dead on
the highway, but it's uh, it's really disturbing when you

(29:33):
think about, you know, fawns that are going to be
left to starve to death because Mama's gone and this
is a very important time. And they're moving about at
the normal times that you see der collisions, early, late
in the day and all day. And all I'm saying is,
you know, be careful because they're on the move and

(29:55):
they're getting splattered unfortunately.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Well, this cool airs get wildlife moving in general during
the early mornings and late evenings, and then of course
during the nocturnal periods of the day in which they
can flourish and do their best in and when they
were originally invented and made, it wasn't necessarily meant for
them to have to adapt to ask fault in four

(30:21):
wheels doing seventy miles an hour, and it definitely has
a tremendous impact on deer. But I tell you something
else that's on the move too.

Speaker 4 (30:29):
Jim, believe it or not.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
And I'm hearing more and more talk of it, and
from my travels up through the northeast, it's coming this way,
and it put into my face a new perspective of
why we're seeing more bears. And part of that is
because of the growth that is going on in the northeast.
Coming this way, there is a push of urban sprawl

(30:53):
to where some of that wildlife isn't going to go
out and paddle in the ocean, and it's definitely not
going to go south down to Florida. So I think
we as we get into our summer patterns and just
looking at changes in wildlife as we bring this go
to the listeners tonight, that you know, we're also in

(31:16):
that season where some of these young male bears can
be out and about, and I'm sure over the next
thirty days we're going to see some reports of where
folks think bears have just magically dropped into the area.
But it's definitely something that's going to be a hot
topic in the state of Kentucky in my opinion, over

(31:37):
the next few years.

Speaker 4 (31:39):
And i'd just kind of like to hear your opinion.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
On what you do think about the growing bear population
and possibly the increased ability and possibilities of getting.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
To hunt bear in the commonweal.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Well, they're an interesting species because like them, love them,
or hate them. Once they're here, they're going to spread,
not to the extent or the explosion of coyotes, because
they can't adapt to a lot of the habitat the
way coyotes have. However, having said that, they're here, and

(32:16):
they're here to stay, and they are going to spread.
They're very adaptable in areas where they have what's the
right word I'm trying to say here forested habitat. In
other words, I don't expect to see them in any
degree in force. Marginal areas like farm ground like West Kentucky,

(32:39):
I don't see that. But in terms of the big
forested areas all across eastern Kentucky, yeah, they're going to
explode and they're going to be part of the environment.
And they're an animal that's fun to hunt, despite what
a lot of people think. They're an animal that's good
to eat. And there is, however, a negative to them

(33:06):
that I think needs to have a huge study effort.
And they are an animal that is very efficient in
killing elk faunts during the period when elk are dropping.
They're unbelievably efficient predator, and this is one of the

(33:28):
things that I think has held some of the elk
population back. There's all kinds of debate about how many
elk we actually have, but I can about promise you
that if they do a considered study on bear predation
on the young elf. They're going to find out. It's

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a big situation and it's going to get nothing but worse.
So those are some random thoughts I have about it.
I appreciate black bear in a lot of our history
is involved with black bears, but they do have to
be intensively managed, intoor controlled. So there's something that going

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forward is very much on my radar. You have anything
further you want to add to.

Speaker 3 (34:18):
That, Yeah, going forward. As I've watched our different districts
and individuals talk about this CWD topic, in the back
of my brain, there has just been that spinning wheel
of how will we agree to disagree or get along

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amongst our districts.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
As the bear population.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Tends to migrate and move and more or less, you know,
flourish in the state of Kentucky, it's no doubt that
the Department has sent some folks along the way to
talk about this education and the advocacy of the black
bear in the state of Kentucky and the numbers and

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what's happening. So it's just a even though they're two
totally different subjects. I have been setting back as a
spectator a lot, watching folks come together with their thoughts
and the process of CWD with the mindset of well,
our next big topic be the black bear in the
state of Kentucky and how districts will have to come

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together to get along or disagree.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Yes, sir, well, the baiting of bears, which is the
most efficient way to hunt them, as we know, is
outlawed in the state, and that's something I think needs
to be looked at when we see a need to
harvest more bears. That's especially true for the boat hunters.
So again that's stuff down the road that needs to
be looked into. All right, folks, we got to go

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about what we're saying. And again, we're going to talk
a lot of fishing in the next part of the program.

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Stick with us. We'll be back after this break, which
is presented by SMI Marine. All Right, Scott, it's time
to talk fishing, and man, there's a lot to report on.
I want to start with how weird the spawning season
has been and I'm gonna start with two of the
early spawners because they're a big part of the equation.

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I get a lot of questions about it, and I
know you have. White bass spawn was probably very close
to obliterated. And here's what I mean by that. About
the time temperatures got right for white bass to spawn,
which as we know, is right at fifty five to sixty,

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right in that range, we had that massive flooding hit us.
And that's statewide. That's not you know, something we need
to say was regional or point to a particular place.
We have had this massive flooding in the whole region,
you know, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee. It doesn't matter where you
want to talk about. I can give an example of

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that in Tennessee. I just got back from Gunnersville, whereas
fish blow the dam for white bass and a lot
of them we put the knife to still we're holding eggs,
and that's been evident all over the place. So white
bass spawn was again in my estimation from what I

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can gather from what I've seen, totally put off. What
little they were able to do. We'll have to wait
and see, but I tell you it was not a
normal spawn period.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
On that regard, it was more of a flood bush
than it ever was a run. And that's that's what
they were dealing with, was a major.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
Flush of water, epic flooding.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
And sometimes Mother nature puts things in check, right, And
I don't believe that the white bass overcome what Mother
nature gave them. Everything happens for a reason, But there
was not very many days that I know of unless
I was just in an isolated world, and I don't

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think I was. That the conditions were were right and
correct for the white bass run, which eventually leads to
their spawn. And so that that's something that a lot
of folks really look forward to each and every year too,
because it's a great way no matter what type of
equipment or where you have to fish, that folks can

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tighten the line and put several filazing in the freezer
and then eat some fresh dropped right.

Speaker 4 (38:55):
Into the to the hot oil.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
It just wasn't there.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
And to your point, a lot of your reports and
your experiences come out of West Kentucky, and that's one
thing I love about having you as a co host,
because Mike comes from more of the north central part
of the state and we were the same up here.
The headwaters and no end and rough and you know,
I ain't go on and on, and you're coming from

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you know, reports down in your area. It just was disastrous.
And for somebody that would say, well they probably drive
to a minute, it was okay. Oh really, let's say
they did spawn. Let's say they came up, they dropped
their eggs. Well, where the eggs go out in somebody's
farm field. I mean, come on, that just doesn't happen.

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And the way they spawn and the way their eggs
tumble in the river is different than most species of fish.
And it just was a disastrous occurrence because from the
time water temperatures hit the right temperature, throughout that process,
it was a blowout. Let's move out to cross Jim. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
Besides, besides that spawn being disrupted, some of those fishing
ain't it may not even be in the same state
anymore because of the amount of fish that were lost
over people's dams and spill ways. Uh that not only
was the spawn impacted, I do believe that we had
a tremendous fish kill. That this flood was so bad.

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Now there's no doubt that we're gonna have some relocation
of fish and they're going to come out ahead. And
that's how everything works in the big picture and in the.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Cycle of life.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
But but we lost fish during a time that we
should have been increasing our populations of fish. And I
know that folks that you talk with on a regular basis, uh,
folks I talk with, and just with my own eyes,
it was it was common there for a few weeks
just to find fish washed out, and that's on dry land,

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and that was the end.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
Of their life right there.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
And that happened in a lot of ways. I think
a lot of our friends that do fish the rivers
and streams are going to see where massive change has
probably occurred with the populations of fish, and some places
are going to get better, and I'm sure some places
are going to be worse.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
Absolutely, this has been an acute problem in a lot
of farm ponds which don't have ideal runoff areas because
as that flooding hit them. To your point, I had
a lot of calls from folks about Collee. I'm finding
dead fish in my outflow. I'm seeing dead fish on

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the dam, and I was like, well, when you have
eight ten inches of water flush in a rapid fashion
like we've had. That is a direct possibility. And guess
what it happened.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
So and to the point of that water, we didn't
have the water temperatures that we needed for a lot
of these fish to have a perfect or a textbook spawn.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
Absolutely, let's move to crappy. I'm going through this in
you know, in terms of the spawn cycle, croppier next,
you know, white mass tail off croppy, Come on, crappy
in the big lakes had a really tough season. Smaller
watersheds not so much. You know, watershed lakes, farm ponds,

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what have you. What I call pond cropping. You and
I talk about that a lot. We're talking there about
black croppie mainly, but the white crappie and the black
croppy and the major lakes, I don't care if you're
talking about no land bearing to a little lesser extent,
but not so much Kentucky and Barkley, but every other
major lake in the state. Horrible conditions. Here's why rapid rise,

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fluctuating weather. If you look back at our spring and Scott,
you and I are weather freaks, and that's no surprise
to people because we're naturalists and you watch those weather
patterns and what it did. There was no consistent spawning
temperatures A and B. The ones that were were heavily

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impacted by all this crazy water. Here's where I'm going
with that. Look around outside of Berkeley, Kentucky. Every lake
is still anywhere from twelve to fifteen sixteen feet. And
it's not the high part that's the biggest concern. It's

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the fluctuation and the weather patterns. So I gotta wait
and see tuned about that on the croppie. But if
it's a decent spot, I will certainly be greatly.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
Surprised, and it will take us two to three years
to see the answer to all of this. And when
you look at Burn and no Lynn and Rough and Taylorsville,
all of these are centrally connected lakes to folks in Kentucky.
You look at the lakes in southern Indiana, it's just

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a it's a puzzle piece right now. Because so many
of these water reservoirs have held water above summer pool
for so long, we don't know what we're getting into.
And the fact of the matter is, there really is
no true experts on this springs catch because most of

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the waters that we needed to get to to fish.
We didn't have boat access to get to them.

Speaker 2 (44:55):
Absolutely, And the fellows, I will tell you this, the
fellows that beat not and did what you and I
tend to do. You know, they slid in a john
bowl or did whatever they wanted to do to catch fish.
Their reports to me were about Lake Croppie leading into
early May and mid May that were still holding eggs.

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And that's not a surprise. Now. Could they have spawned
in May instead of April, Yes, But on the other hand,
early May wasn't a whole lot better conditions. Why because
they started drawing water. So unless those fish spawn in
a little deeper than average water, their eggs were left

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high and dry. Those lakes have dropped probably ten inches
in the last thirty days, so or excuse me, not
ten inches, ten feet what are we looking at? Pretty
tough situation.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
So reading leap predator predator type impact too on a
lot of these beds and these eggs, especially with our catfish,
and how that spawn was a little later, and how
those catfish come up and did their thing, especially on
the bluegill, which we'll get into. But boy, I'm telling you,
it's a it's an equation that only one man, one person,

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can have the complete answer to, and that's going to
be God himself on this one. Because it's a it's
a it's a twister. The whole spring spawn has been
a twister.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
I totally agree. And again, I'm sitting here in three
quarters of a century, and most of my fishing companions
and friends are you know, a gentleman with a little
years off, and we've never seen anything like this ever.
I mean, let's look at it this way. Where'd you
most like You're still twelve and fifteen feet above pool?

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That's crazy. I mean, we've seen years when we had flooding,
We've seen years where we've had these fluctuations, but nothing
like this. This is really weird. And when you add
the odd temperatures. You and I have talked about this Lotscott.
How many times have we seen these cold periods followed

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by these huge rains? Not my memory, not my memory bank.
So it's it's really really odd. I'm gonna go to
break here and coming back we're going to talk about
the good side of this and how you can capitalize
on some of this. But we had to report to
you what went down with the two early spawners because

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We got Edwin on holday, Edwin? How you doing?

Speaker 5 (48:20):
I'm doing good, Jim about yourself?

Speaker 2 (48:22):
I finest frog here, buddy. The fish are biting and
life's pretty good. What do you have for its? Well?

Speaker 5 (48:29):
I wanted to weigh in on on prevalence levels, as
you know, that's my my territory and up until May
twenty third we were well above flood stage down there
May twenty third two. Today it has dropped in elevation
from seven thirty to seven nineteen on its way to

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six ninety is what they're they're forecasting eventually to get
the summer pool. But you all were talking about that
that lake drop, I mean them without rain putting into
that that watershed and them running four generators, and I
think the flood controlled gates open at seven forty. So
we spent the first two weeks of May with the

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spillway gates open along with running all the generators. They've
had the generators running. The rain stopped in southern Kentucky
and the feeder streams to that lake right around May
twenty third, and they, I mean it dropped precipitously because
the cores running all those generators. So to your All's point,

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any fish that may have been up in Greasy Creek
and bread and when the lake was was dropped down
so far when they were fixing the dam, A lot
of vegetation, a lot of tree growth, so those creeks
are heavy on the banks with with good vegetation and
good covers, so they may well as spawned up there.

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But you know, what's the success rate going to be
with them dropping that lake that fast? I'm not very hopeful.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Well ed when you've heard our thoughts about this, And
obviously with white bass, I don't think anybody could argue
crappie is speculative, but the bass spawn is another thing altogether,
because there are maina species and all the laketure in

(50:26):
that situation. And I can tell you this. I have
been bass fishing and blue yale fishing and white bass
fishing a bunch in the last two weeks. And it's
a weird situation. I'll give you an example. A buddy
mine was fishing yesterday and the day before, catching a

(50:48):
lot of bass on wacky worms. And a lot of
those bass that he caught were females still hold meggs.
And this is mother Nature's way of, you know, kind
of hedge into bed if you will. But with the
drop we're talking about, it's gonna be a very scattered spawn. Uh.

(51:09):
Provides some pretty unique and good fishing conditions. And Scott
and I are to talk about and technique, but it's
hard not to have concerns.

Speaker 5 (51:22):
Sure, And and I had very similar reports down of
eastern Kentucky and Base Hole Lake. And do you like
that the fishing really picked up in the last week.
But and and they were catching a lot of sol
bass that are still holding eggs. And that's one thing
that we never know. Mother nature is amazing at doing
things whenever we think it's destroyed. For instance, Uh, you

(51:46):
go to Turkey populations. You know, those hens availability to
hold bibles firm in their system until they fill the
conditions you're right to to lay has upset our predictive
apple apple carts on many occasions, and this year not
not an exception. In my book, I've got a bunch
of eight week old bird or I've got a bunch

(52:08):
of a week old birds and a bunch of birds
it ain't two weeks old yet too. And one thing
that I've never seen that I knew they did that
I did see this year was a mother hen on
a low roost branch where their wings spread out. I
thought she was a buzzard at first, and and when
I got closer and looked in the through the monocular

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she had all her polse underneath their wings when it
was raining, and I was amazed that they were able
to get up as how as they were with the
amount of downstill on their bodies as well. But you know,
I never would have guessed that that would have happened
this late in the year, either, but it does.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Absolutely well. I'm glad to have your reports out of
eastern Kentucky because that's I knew it was a mirror image,
especially on the white bass and the crappie in the
in the bass that's pretty much pervasive out the state.
I think this is the most scattered bass spawn that
I've seen in many many years. And there's fish on

(53:08):
the beds right now. I'm not let me put it
this way. I'm not telling you what I think. I'm
telling you what I know. I saw. I saw so
many male bass on the beds this week that it
freaked me out because we just kissed you. However, that's
good news. I hope that continues. But what I'm worried

(53:32):
about on some of the major legs, like we were
talking about with this drop, if they're not spawning let's
say two feet deeper deeper, guess what the eggs are
prior could be highd ry, And that's a big situation
that we're gonna just have to borroster. Hey, appreciate you.

Speaker 5 (53:56):
You're Scott. One more thing you were. Scott mentioned catfish
there on things that that we did have happened and
noodley opened up today, didn't it. And and uh, it'd
be interesting to see what our noodlers come up with
if our catfish are holding in their their usual spots
yet or or what's going on with them. So I'll
keep my heor to the to the grindstone for you

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and we'll talk in.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
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heels of whatever them just said, Uh, we got another
call here, Yes sir, go ahead.

Speaker 6 (54:49):
Yeah you.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 6 (54:53):
Uh is is not about the fishing, but the deer
population out here h in Spencer County, and it is
just they need to lengthen the season big time. I'm
a soybean farmer and they just the God's creature. But

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it's unbelievable how much they to throw eat your crops.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
Well, you got two guys right here that if you
need them taken down and drop the numbers, we can
help you do it. So I guess my first question is,
as you being a soybean farmer, do you allow honors
to come in and harvest deer on your property, not
just bucks, but to come in and shoot the dose.

Speaker 6 (55:43):
Well, here's the problem. I've tried to let people and
I tell them, don't buy to the bucks, shoot to dose,
you know, get all those you can. And then what
they'll do is figure out how many dos are and
they're like, oh, well, I want to there's got to
be a couple of big monster bucks. I want to buck,

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and they won't shoot the dose because of the bucks.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Well, on that situation, you've just h You've got to
find individuals like myself and Jim that will not only
look in the eye, but shake your hand and follow
through with the promising commitment. The importance of shooting these
antlerless deer is it's important for a lot of reasons.

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Take the CWD and set it to the side.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
You're correct.

Speaker 3 (56:37):
We have pockets that definitely have more deer density than
what they need. And us as hunters and to the
listeners that are out there, we have we have got
to do a better job of harvesting those doves when
we do have the time. Uh, and we need to
make the time even if we think we don't have

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it to revolve around getting even new hunters out there,
or letting people come in and hunt our farms during
times it's not peaked to quote unquote harvest the trophy
deer or the rut. But like I said, there's a
lot of people I'm sure that would be more than
willing to come out and use archery equipment or farms

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and help you.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Reduce your deer population.

Speaker 6 (57:23):
Well this sounds terrible, but I've got one gentleman on
one of the farms, and between him and a couple others,
year before last they took out about twenty two dogs.
And last year the gentleman donated harvest to the hungry

(57:47):
and all that, and he took like thirty eight doughs
out of here. And this spring, I well, about a
month ago I was back in the field and able
to heard of I counted twenty five from not farm
on the other farm.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
Well, I have an obvious question for you. I understand
your problem. I think you have hunters who some have
participated in the right way, some didn't. But why do
you think a longer season's gonna help that? Because you've
got early archery, you got a crossbow, you got muzzle order,

(58:27):
you got modern gun, you got youth. There's more than
enough season. Why do you think more season is going
to help that.

Speaker 6 (58:37):
The gun season. I know you've got party and muzzle
and all that, but I'm just saying the modern fire
arm should be another week longer whereas two weeks until
it was, you know, another week extended on it. And
I think that would you know, I think that would help.

(58:58):
But I just yet another problem you've got is you know,
they're a beautiful animal. I'm not saying that they are
very beautiful, but the neighbors around like to feed them,
and as soon as they see me in the field,
they run for the other people that they know they're

(59:20):
not bothered with. They'll jump over the fence and turn
around and look at you.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
Well, I think your problem is getting the right hunters
there to participate and understand. And I can promise you this.
If you put the word out that you'll allow deer
honey on your property and the cost of admission is
show me a dead dough, Okay, you won't have dear

(59:49):
problem for very long. That's I have very little tolerance for.
And I'm not saying you're that guy with that. I'm
not saying here they got. But I have a very
little tolerance for people that say all the deer eating
all my crops. Well, sir, and this is the Scott's

(01:00:10):
question to you. Do you allow honey. If you don't
allow honting, you're not allowing us, the people the buy
the licenses that fund the agency that help to keep
things in balance, to do our job. So, in my estimation,
the best thing I say to you is you put
the word out. I know Taylorsville very very well. Go

(01:00:33):
down there to the to the processing plant there in Taylorsville,
go see Mitchell Warren, and you tell them you're going
to allow people to hunt those and those only, and
I'll guarantee you your no problem will be over. And
don't don't forget this.

Speaker 6 (01:00:51):
I agree with I agree with what you're saying. But
the legal ramifications of that is what's scary me.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
What is that? What legal? What legal?

Speaker 6 (01:01:06):
The even if I tell somebody, yes, you can hunt here,
you have to sign this paper blah blah blah that
if you're responsible, they say okay, they sign it, they
shoot and they don't watch what they're doing, and it
goes into a house, go a neighbor or something. I

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am still legally responsible because I allowed him to hunt.

Speaker 7 (01:01:31):
You are correct, you are responsible if you if you
charge people to enter your land, if you charge people.

Speaker 4 (01:01:41):
If you lease your property out, you.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
Are now liable legally in more ways. And if you
just allow someone to walk onto your property and hunt,
and I will say this, the Department of Fish and
Wildlife will more than happily sit down with you and
show you how you are protected by the law to
allow the common man and woman to enter your property

(01:02:05):
to legally hunt and fish there to where you will
not be held liable as long as you do not
charge them to utilize your property. And that's a topic
gem and I will get into later on this summer.
But when you do start to charge and leash your property.

Speaker 4 (01:02:23):
Out, you're darn right.

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
You're setting yourself up for more legal allegations that can
be brought to you and against you because of you
taking income off of that property. But now other people's
actions will be their responsibilities, not yours as a landowner.

Speaker 6 (01:02:42):
What it's another question for you, And then I'll get
off here and let you get somebody else.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
Sense.

Speaker 6 (01:02:50):
The deer are damaging my crops through the summer. Do
I have a right to shoot them if they're in
my fields?

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
You do, And your first responsibility is to pick up
the phone and call the Department of Fishing Wildlife. They
will send a representative to your property. That property will
be evaluated for what is going on as far as
browse damage. They will evaluate the financial loss that you

(01:03:20):
are having, and they will then begin to tell you
the step by step process of how those deer can
be removed.

Speaker 4 (01:03:28):
But let me advocate for this.

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
It's a lot better to take those deer out during
the seasons that are already in place so that meat
can be utilized. It doesn't have any impact to the
crop that you have in the field.

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
And I would.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
Highly, highly, highly suggest that you start working with Kentucky
Hunters for the Hungary, the Kentucky Department of Fishing Wildlife,
and your local processors around there, and especially with Taylorsville
WMA BE and right there in your backyard. I'm sure
there's many people that would be more than happy to
sign whatever waver you want to put together. Have an
attorney draw up that they won't hold you or anybody

(01:04:06):
else responsible for the right to hunt and fish on
your lands and they will hunt and harvest only antler
list deer.

Speaker 4 (01:04:12):
So we appreciate you being on Jim.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
Yes, Sir Sarah, I hope we's all your questions and
hopefully that's something that will enlighten you and move forward.
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(01:04:40):
some fishing reports. I want to start off with one
that's at the top of my mind because I've been
capitalizing on it, and that is the Cicada hatch up
in this part of the state. It has provided some
unbelievable opportunities that knowle In and other lakes around the region.
Uh top water bike for bass with Hulla poppers and

(01:05:04):
the small, very small jitterbugs has been crazy. I've capitalized
on that and had a ball taken advantage of it
because it only comes once every seventeen years and it's
not even beginning to peek yet, so folks need to
take advantage of that bluegill spawn, very prolonged and crazy good.

(01:05:30):
I fished with my grandson yesterday and some friends this
week and they are still on the beds like crazy.
I think we're going to see a very prolonged bluegill
spawn is going to go up into June, into this
next full moon, which is I think it's around the
tenth of June. And it's very, very good. And I

(01:05:52):
talked earlier a bit about bass still spotting and attempting
to for shallow water active. Topwater bike's just on fire
right now with the bass. Let's talk about all that
catfish channel. Catfish's crazy good right now. Blues are starting

(01:06:12):
tell us what's going on in your area.

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
Well, the blues and flatheads are starting to pull into
the deeper water again. Anywhere that you can find that
riff raft, big chunk rock, strawberry flavored chicken or shrimp
is going to be a great bait. To utilize it,
to capitalize on that a little bit more than just nightcrawlers.

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
If you're not.

Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
Wanting to catch any bluegill or have any pest when
you bite. You were talking about that top water bite
on the bass. We're going to start seeing these whites
getting to the jumps. Hybrid bass activity is going to
pick up because all of these fish are going to
capitalize on this fry hatchet's going on. And as we
talked earlier in the show, from the west to the east,

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you're going to see anywhere from ten degrees to five
the difference in water temperature. And for folks that don't
understand that, that's huge. This is just the time of
year that you can use baits that are stimilar to
a crawfish or a shad or some type of worm
or creature that would be naturally in the water and

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catch fish all the way from the bank to sixteen
foot of water pretty easily. It's a great time to
capitalize on trolling. If you want to get out and
just enjoy a nice boat ride. You can use artificials,
you can use live bait. Most importantly, it's a great
time of year to get anglers out on the water
that just want to get a tight line. There is

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not a lake in the state of Kentucky right now
that will not provide you a multi species opportunity.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Absolutely, And talking about crappie in the lakes that are
still high, which is most again down in West Kentucky.
You guys got down to summer pool that up here,
you know, we're still as I reported, twelve to even
sixteen eighteen feet above summer pool. Croppie trolling. Trolling on

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the outside edges of this standing timber that has flooded
has been excellent. A lot of guys haven't experienced that
yet because they've not been able to launch their boats.
But now that the lakes are down enough that some
of the launch sites are readily available, this is a
time when you really get after him on that. And

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those outside edges with top order for bass are crazy good.
The bass are just cruising that stuff looking for insects
and minos that are gathered on those edges. And it's
been very, very efficient fishing opportunity in many, many ways,
speaking of no limb and rough and some of the

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other areas. If you've got those locusts, man, can you
kill fish? I mean, it's crazy good, and it's not bass.
It's bluegill, catfish, giant carp all kinds of fish. Putting
those locusts, it's really I should say, and it's just

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crazy good. Other things that are happening, the white bass
you mentioned below, the dams I know down in the
western part of state that's really on fire. Isn't it.

Speaker 5 (01:09:28):
It really is.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
If folks will kind of lend themselves to using a
reel that will allow them to have a little.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Faster retrieve and go up to.

Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
That half ounce to three quarter of an ounce. Jig
heads anywhere from a three inch to a five inch
plastic grub will put a lot of different fish up
on the rocks for you, and it's a great way
to really truly understand where a little bit longer pole,
a little bit lighter line than a little bit heavier
jig can really allow you to cast and cover a

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lot of ground. We sometimes focus too much about needing
a big, fancy boat to get out on the water,
but this time of year, it's just about covering as
much water as you can and that broadcasting in and
around those areas are going to allow you to pick
up anything from sager to walleye to hybrids and stripes

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and your white bass, and of course a small mouth
or large mouth or spot along the way. It's just
a it's a fantastic opportunity because the fish that aren't spawning,
they're hungry, and the fish that are capitalizing on this
current and the water and the temperature increasing, you know,
It just makes for that opportunity for you to set

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the hook and keep your five gallon bucket or your
cooler full of definite prospects that can meet to skillet
and some corn bread, white beans and fried potatoes.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
A man after my own heart, I will add something
else into the equation. If you're a stream fisherman. In
between these intermittent thunderstorms and stuff we got, stream fishing
has been crazy good. Why we're having many opportunities now.
And what I mean by that is it going into June.

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Those fish are still spawning. Rock bass, the longer sunfish,
the small mouth center are still in spawn mode in
these streams for reasons that we stated earlier in the program.
It doesn't get any better than it is right now.

Speaker 3 (01:11:31):
But again, get you into the the best fishing that
there is right now.

Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
No question. All right, folks, that's about a wrap for tonight.
I know we've covered a lot of subjects. Hope you
enjoyed it. We'll be off for the Crusade for children
next week. Please participate. It's one of the greatest things
going in this region for all the kids. And we'll
talk to you on the next past. God bless everybody.

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