Caught on the Bink's Spoon yesterday. 
The lake level is 556.87 and is about the same as it was yesterday with one generator running about 1/2 speed continuously. The surface temperature is 65 degrees and is clearing and is a good color for fishing and in general in excellent condition. You can see your lure down about 4-5 feet depending on what the bank is like. If it is steep and rocky it is much clearer. I have been fishing both brush piles and open water in front of brush on shad. Mixed species of fish are on the shad including crappie, walleye, bass, small hybrids and small white bass. Several schools of White Bass are around Red Bank landing but are mostly small. They are hanging in about 35-ft. of water and are not worth it to me to drive that far. I have a couple of good crappie brush piles in that area and check them out periodically. Spoons are working the best overall but minnows on slip floats are also working when the wind is calm mostly early morning and late afternoon. I am also using the small jig or grub, casting it over the brush and letting it sink slowly into it. The crappie are scattered everywhere and I can only catch a couple on one place and then they quit. Most of the fish are not in big schools but a few are. They are roaming looking for feed which is looking for cover. Some bass and bluegill are on the banks with the bluegill being right on the bank and the bass in about 8-10 feet of water in front of them. I am catching some very good smallmouth and fat Kentuckies. I release all of the smallmouth and largemouth under the dock and they seem to stay there as I feed them every day and can see them join the school and it is getting bigger everyday. The fishing overall is not the best but some of each species are being caught everyday. It is a mixed bag. Trollers are catching some now but are putting on a lot of miles to get them. If you troll something through enough schools of shad you will catch some fish but most schools of shad are not holding fish. There is a lot of bait fish out there but I have seen much more in earlier years. One year in December there were so many shad in front of Panther Bay Marina that the fish finder was blacked out for about a mile both ways. I prefer casting for the fish but to each their own. It is fun to feel that initial hit and setting the hook. It looks like there will be no November night bite for stripers again this year. The full mon is the very last of this month and it will be too late then. Blackburns still has cabins for $59/day and your first boat stall is free. Why pay too much unless you just have too much money? I do not.
