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Went out to the boat dock this morning and the spider webs we just full of large may flies... There were none a few days ago... I wonder if this influenced the top water bit I had Thursday evening that was so good...
 
I say so cause I was out on the lake yesterday evening and went squirrel fishing once. Trying to get my lure out of a tree and the May flies were thick. The fish went crazy over the ones that got in the water.
 
This is the thickest I can remember them being around Kentucky Lake. Paris area. So thick in many areas that the tree limbs are sagging.
 
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The river between Duck River and Birdsong creek was covered in dead ones yesterday. Looked like floating rafts on the water. Never seen them so thick
 
RobbyW said:
North end of Big Sandy is covered up with them. Last night was by far the peak so far
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The wife and I were out all night last night. Around cypress and Paris was by far the most I have seen. The whole lake was a mat of dead flies it seemed.
 
Tree on the edge of the water. Zoom in.
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Another pic from Paris Landing area. Tree limbs around bank were sagging.
 

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BuckWild said:
The river between Duck River and Birdsong creek was covered in dead ones yesterday. Looked like floating rafts on the water. Never seen them so thick
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I was through there Saturday evening. Like you said: dead patches floating everywhere!
 
Fished KY on Saturday. It was like eel grass mats on guntersville. It was hard to cast the flies were so thick. Fishing was tough in our tourney. Pretty good guys on the south end and there were a lot of zeros.
 
Time to bust out the fly rods and popping bugs. My father and I used to fly fish Ky Lake this time every year since I was a kid. We would catch hundreds of bluegill in a day with the occasional bass. It seemed like every year my father would hook a bluegill and have a smallmouth eat it. My father would fight it up to the boat and the smallmouth would cough up the bluegill.

One method some of my friends would use would be to throw your lure up in the tree and shake the mayflies out of it and then fish the water when it started boiling with bluegill. The bass would feed on the bluegill.
 
Wow, I'm glad I read this! I went last night on Fort Loudon to my normal spots=NOTHING. THEN I started fishing under low hanging trees. We loaded up on Bluegill. I gave a bunch away to a father and his kid. My wife even caught a 2 lb largemouth which is tough on a Bluegill pole!

I"m going to get my flyrod out and go back. I remember one year on Watts Bar that the Bluegill would hit a fly or popping bug so hard it didn't have any feather left.
 
In a week or so when there are more and they are dying out, it is bow fishing time! I just shake the heck out of the trees and wait for the carp to come up to gulp them.
 
Strange , I remember fishing out of waverly and when the hatch was on you had lots of top water fun . Now here on Barkley we had a large hatch last week and I've yet to see a fish in them ? Has been that way for last several yeats ?
 
SALTMAN said:
Strange , I remember fishing out of waverly and when the hatch was on you had lots of top water fun . Now here on Barkley we had a large hatch last week and I've yet to see a fish in them ? Has been that way for last several yeats ?
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Not even a bluegill? Have you tried smacking the trees and knocking them in the water to see what happens? We fished out of Turkey Creek and occasionally Masons. Shady rocky banks always seemed best.
 
I went back over the next night with my fly rod and SLAYED them. Lots of small bass and bluegill. I was probably catching one every 30 seconds.
 

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