So after my awesome 30-45 minute day I had Thursday, I went out on Friday. Got up early, put the boat in and wanted more big brown fish! I didn’t sleep a wink Thursday night I had them on my mind so bad!! Boy, was I disappointed. They had slowed the flow down, and fish were scattered bad. Caught several short fish, and only one that was 18.5”. It came on a swim bait in a ghost shad color. They guy that went with me caught one that was 17.5” on cutter worm using the Tokyo rig. That was kinda different to see.
The real reason I made this post is, I hung into a big Asian carp on that swimbait. It had to have been 15-20lbs!!! Somehow I snagged it in the tail. I fought that thing for almost 15 minutes. For the first 3-4 minutes I thought I had big Bertha the bass!! Got it to the surface and realized what it was. Got my pocket knife out and was going to cut it but couldn’t get it close enough to the boat. It finally pulled the hook. I notified TWRA on social media. I’m pretty sure that I saw a couple small schools of them on the graph, both within two miles of the dam. I sure hope they don’t become a problem like on Kentucky/Barkley Lake.
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May 17th Cumberland River
