Laurel River Lake Reports Posted Here

[Mike Daleo]

Please post your Laurel River Lake reports in this thread

[catfishkid]

anyone been on Laurel recently?

[Ky Bullet]

Heard some fish are being caught early morning on Spinner baits, late evening on the same. All I got.

[ggodwin]

Looks like this thread is pretty dead. I was told by a local in Corbin that the lake has really come on and improved for Bass Fishing. Can anyone confirm this?

[Kbeasley62]

Yeah, I'm pretty disappointed in most of these threads on fishing reports. I am hoping to try Laurel River lake sometime this summer. I hear it's more clear than Lake Cumberland.

[jm_middleton]

I just started tournament fishing a little over two years ago. The bags have went from taking 20 something pounds to win down into the single digits on a 5 fish limit. You still see some bags in the teens but nothing like it was. I fished a fall tournament which typically had 30 to 40 boats. Less than 10 boats would have fish to weigh in with the winner around 8 pounds for 3 fish. When I first started fishing I had never seen so many 5 pound plus fish weighed in. Now it's about how many keeper spot's you can catch. During the summer you have a tournament every day except Wednesday and Sunday. Then covid happened and everyone wanted to be on the lake. I guess they hauled them out by the truck loads.
Currently the water temp is around 43 degrees. The water is clear and the shad looked like they where starting to die off over the weekend.