If you can brave the cooler air temperature the fish are really biting well this winter on Norfork Lake. This is the time of year the trophies are caught. What a fantastic and exciting day these three Hummingbird Hideaway Resort guests had today on Norfork Lake. They ended up with 3 limits of striped bass and released 6 others. These fish were all about 11 - 12 pounds but fought like 40 pound fish. They were all caught in 60 feet depths suspended 25 - 40 feet down. Large live shiners were the bait of choice. The best part is that they only had to travel 5 - 10 minutes away from the resort.
The Kentucky bass are schooling on the bluff line points in 30 - 45 feet of water and biting well on shiners. Vertical jigging with a spoon is also working for the Kentucky bass. Find brush piles in the same areas and the bite will even be better. Walleye and crappie are in the same area. Yesterday afternoon I ended up with 4 nice Kentucky's and lost 2 others. Today another guest visiting from Wisconsin, caught a nice crappie, two under size walleye and several nice bass.
The Winter bite has started!!
The Norfork Lake level is 559.8 and fairly stable. The Corps is starting to generate again with one generator intermittantly throughout the day. The lake surface water temperature is 47 - 49 degrees. The main lake is clear and the creeks and coves are stained.
Happy fishing, dress warmly and I'll see you on the lake!
I want to so bad come and fish for those monsters!!!
ReplyDeleteKyle, your cabin is ready! There are big catfish in this lake, I saw a guy fishing for stripers pull in a 41 pound Bluecat the other day.
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