GPS users outcatching ‘sight fishermen’

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September 2, 2010

By JOEL WILSON For the Daily Times The Glasgow Daily Times Thu Sep 02, 2010, 08:48 AM CDT

GLASGOW — Barren continues to be about six feet above summer pool but all ramps are accessible and fishing continues to be fairly good.

Have had some good reports again on crappie, some being caught during the heat of the day, both on jigs and minnows.

The trick is finding them and those with good graphs and other top of the line electronics such as GPS seem to be doing better than us sight fishermen. Went one day last Thursday and managed to finally put five keepers in the basket while catching three dozen or so undersized fish in about two hours on the water.

Bass fishing is still considered only fair and the Corps is drawing down the lake level at only a moderate rate. Same with hybrids.

Barren River Rod and Gun Club members are reminded of tonight’s 7 p.m. meeting at the clubgrounds at Lucas. The meeting is one of the most important of the year as the election of officers is scheduled. Members are also reminded that September is the month to renew memberships. Dues are $22 a year for the family which includes children under 16 years. Tonight’s meal will be potluck.

William “Bud” Foshee of Birmingham, Ala., will now have a chance to land a 50-inch muskellunge, a 10-pound largemouth bass, hand-sized bluegill, 2-foot-long hybrid striped bass and shellcrackers as long as a tackle box.

Foshee did not have to hire a cadre of fishing guides to take him from great fishing spot to great fishing spot all over Kentucky, but all he did was win the 2010 Trolling for Trophies drawing. Plus, he will have not have to drive to Kentucky Lake and then to Barren and on to a great farm pond to get a chance at fish of this quality.

Foshee will fish one 13-acre lake owned and managed by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, where the trophies swimming in it have not once seen a lure. Fisheries biologists select the fish in this lake for their superior genetics and ability to produce trophy offspring.

The Trolling for Trophies drawing benefits the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Funds collected through the Trolling for Trophies drawing supports youth conservation education at the Salato Wildlife Education Center and the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Conservation Camps.

The winner of the Trolling for Trophies drawing will be guided by Tim Farmer, host of the “Kentucky Afield” television show. A future “Kentucky Afield” show will document their day fishing this tremendous lake together later this fall.

Foshee will also stock up on free fishing equipment with the $1,000 Bass Pro Shops shopping spree he won as part of the drawing. He will also be able to bring along a friend or relative to fish with him.

This year, 158 people entered the drawing. A single chance at the Trolling for Trophies drawing cost $25, with six tickets for $100, and $250 bought 15 chances plus a signed Rick Hill print of the three black bass in Kentucky.

For more information on other drawings sponsored by the Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Foundation, log on to Foundation’s website at www.kentuckywildilfe.com.

This weekend’s Kentucky Afield TV show will feature a segment on the history of restoring the whitetail deer population in Kentucky and a repeat segment on bass fishing Barren with Elizabethtown pro Wayne Dial. The KET show airs Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. and repeats Sunday at 3 p.m.

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