KentuckyAngling News

It's been a long hard winter! If you are anything like me, you are looking forward to getting out and enjoying the warm days of spring!

As I write this, the weather man has commented that this day could be the first 70-degree day since October, daylight savings time is about to kick in and the whole idea of seeing daylight to 7:30 in the evening is a welcome sight. If you haven't been working on your tackle now is the time to break out the gear and get it ready for the up coming season, here is a short list of things you should think about. Along with a few tips and suggestions that will have you ready for the hungry and willing fish that soon will be active once again.

The one thing that I do each year, and I can tell you it might not set all that good with your wife or husband, but I feel it is very necessary. It's time to clean all your fishing lures or at lease all of your "hard baits".

I usually take up residence in the bath room, taking a small folding table along with a spray bottle of a general purpose cleaner, sponge, paper towels, and plastic tub. I fill the bath tub about half way adding a few caps of "Dawn" dishing washing liquid, guess what's next!
You got it.. All the "hard baits" go into the tub where they get to float around until I get to each one.
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The wait is almost over, we have an article in this magazine to help you go through the checklist to get ready for the up coming season, that done, it's time to talk about the top baits that you should have in your tackle and a brief discussion about how to use them.

The title of this article is "Top

Three Baits" We may actually bring up a few more than that, you should have these baits in your box as the spring makes its way here. The first bait we want to talk about is the lipless crank bait,    some names you might know are the Rattle Trap, Cotton Cordell Super Spot, Sebile Flat Shad, Lucky Craft LV-500, XCalibur Xr50 Rattle Bait, and our own Littlebear Wiggle Shad. They are plenty more but these are some of the ones I use, you can pick from a huge selection of lipless baits that are out there.
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"The hot spring baits can change how you look at spring fishing forever!"

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Streams The Hidden Bonanza

While most of us are gearing up to hit the lakes, I count myself in that group, we are also blessed in Kentucky to have some of the best streams anywhere, this can be a very fun day doing something a little different.

I can remember many days when I would head for East Fork or the Little Sandy to spend the day fishing from the bank, stream fishing during the spring is very fickle, but when you hit it right, it can rival a day on the lake and put a whole bunch of fun right at your finger tips.

If you haven't tried stream fishing you should do yourself a favor and learn more about it. Having small children along can be a blast, at the same time kids on the bank are a little more manageable if they aren't very experienced fisherman and need lots of help.   READ MORE
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Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Throw an ancient lure for early spring bass
By Lee McClellan
Ancient Native Americans learned to adorn bone hooks

with animal hair to make them more appealing to fish. This oldest and simplest of lures, a hair jig, still is the best choice to catch bass in the cold water of early spring. A modern hair jig isn't much different from those used by the ancestors of the Shawnee. It consists of deer, rabbit or synthetic craft hair tied onto the hook shank of a lead-head jig. "Hair looks more natural in cold water," said Benjy Kinman, deputy commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. "It flows and looks more like a baitfish or a crayfish." READ MORE