We just came back from a 10 day trip to the northern end of the lake, narrowly missing the big storm that hit yesterday. We fished mainly from Sugar to Pisgah and Big Bear to Little Bear.
The first 3 mornings we looked for ledge fish but was predominantly unsuccessful only getting 2 small fish at the mouth of Little Bear and a 3 1/2 pounder off the island in front of Moors. Our afternoons were mildly successful fushing the backs of bays with flukes and wacky rigs catching many 12-16 inch fish each evening.
Following the first 3 unsuccessful morning attempts at the ledges we opted to change pace and look for another pattern. What we found was not great for KY Lake but pretty good for what it has become. First thing in the mornings we were hitting rip rap wind blown points with shakey heads and white spinnerbaits. After the early morning bite was done we put down the finess gear and picked up our heavy flipping gear with 3/8 oz jigs and looked for blowdowns in the wind eddies close to the mouth of the bays and deeper water. We would then look for the small skipjack fingerlings to be feeding on the small fryin and around the blow down. If those criterias were met then there was a school of bass deep under the cover. The bigger bass (3-4lbs) were very skinny but the 13-16 inch bass were fat and over gorged on carp fry.
The remaining 6 mornings of fishing yielded about 26 keepers most between 2 3/4 and 3 1/4lbs with the largest only being a skinny 4 1/4 pounder. On average we cought about 20 fish each morning most being short but at least it was what I'd call decent fishing.