Trophy Country

[CKFishin]

Looks like I'm heading up there with some guys from work to fish all day... If I don't melt I will come back with some pics and maybe info. I'm not to keen on fishing deep for them but I'll try my hand at it... Hopefully the first of a few trips there this year...

Ghoti? RW? Long Mike? Anyone whose been there a few times wanna throw out some help I will accept it lol...

-CK

[Revo_Carrot Stix]

I've gone 3-4x a year for the past couple years. The last time was July 1- 3 (1/2 day, full, 1/2 day) and caught 129 in 100+ temps. As Ghoti or Long Mike will tell you, fish your strength or have fun with a technique that you don't normally use. I tried deep cranking in a few spots and caught more 15" crappie than anything. At this time of year, the grass and weeds are thick in a lot of areas - which makes DD pretty tiresome. I fished squarebills most of the time and didn't get too tangled up. Mornings and evenings were strickly topwater and those bass will knock your plug 2 feet in the air. Although I haven't met up with the BR members (yet), I usually go with 4-6 buddies which gives me a range of what works. Main forage: Crawdads, Bluegill, and Hybrid-Sunfish.

• Anything topwater - LC Sammies, SK KVD Dawgs, Spooks, Black Cavitrons, and hollow-belly frogs. I've had buddies throw buzzbaits all day and catch 50 before lunch. It just depends on what you're enjoying.
  
• Crankbaits - IMHO, Craw-colors catch twice as many as shad-pattern colors. Browns and oranges are best. Red doesn't seem to do as well. On the last few trips, I've left anything-sexy-shad at home.
  
  • Squarebills - KVD's 1.5/2/5 and XCaliburs
    
  • Mid - Wiggle Warts, SK Series 4 and 5, DT10's
    
  • Deep - Bomber Fat Free Shads, DD22's, and LiveTargets
    

  [*]Soft Plastics - You could throw an Ika or Brush Hawg all day if you want. You could easily catch 100 Kentuckies 12-14" range, so bring plenty of bags if that's your thing.

TC Staff is in the midst of creating a smallie pit - if we would have had normal rainfalls this year - that pit would be ready...but it's not. They are feeding the smallies fathead minnows and crawdads, so that will be awesome next year. I can't imagine the smallies getting as/more agressive than the TC Spots. 1# Spot feels and fights like a 3# largmouth...it's just awesome.

Good luck and let us know how it goes!

Mickey

[.ghoti.]

I been going to TC 3 or 4 times per year for ten years now. Doesn't seem like it's been that long.

If I were going right now, for one day, I would be fishing the pit they call Upper Duck.

Second choice; The Islands.

Let us know how it goes.

[CKFishin]

I don't remember the name of the first lake but the second was "The Islands"... It was Hot but wind and being on the water helped...

We arrived at Trophy Country at around 6:30 AM met with Kevin and filled out the paperwork and By 7 he had the 4 of us out on the water. We all decided to start out with different forms of top water and just continued on from there cranks, creatures, jigs basically anything we wanted. Stopped for about two hours at 1 to eat some lunch and cool off and that's when he then took us to the islands. We finished up at around 8:30 and the day ended up with over 400+ fish in the 1-3.5lb range and a few scattered over that biggest being a 7-2... Overall for 108+ degree day I was impressed....

[Revo_Carrot Stix]

That sounds like an awesome day. I bet your thumbs were bleeding and your feet were burning on those boats. I have yet to catch anything over 6#'s out there, so good for you guys! I'm hoping to get back out there in mid-Sept. Hopefully we'll get some rain out there so it's not such a bi*** to get those boats back up on the ramps. Was that miserable or what?

[Quillback]

That's an awesome day for these weather conditions. Can you bring your own boat or do you use one of theirs?

[roadwarrior]

I caught most of my bass on a Megabass PopMax and Norman Fat Boy (redear pattern).

[CKFishin]

That sounds like an awesome day. I bet your thumbs were bleeding and your feet were burning on those boats. I have yet to catch anything over 6#'s out there, so good for you guys! I'm hoping to get back out there in mid-Sept. Hopefully we'll get some rain out there so it's not such a bi*** to get those boats back up on the ramps. Was that miserable or what?

Man it was rough.. those things all loaded up suck to crank back up.. they were down around 3ft they said...

That's an awesome day for these weather conditions. Can you bring your own boat or do you use one of theirs?

You use theirs they are a pretty good setup for the place honestly...

[oteymc]

Hi guys, haven't been around here much lately. Anytime Trophy Country comes up I have to chime in. Ghoti convinced me to join him there one day and I tell you it was great. And I guess it was a slow day for there. I plan to get back there hopefully around the end of the month or maybe in September.