Best place for large bass?

[deerhunter]

Kentucky Lake or pickwick lake

[Texasfishingtips]

Falcon,Fork,Ive,Choke,Amistad,LA,Fayetteville

Clancy W

[indymusky]

diamond valley lake, lake dixon, lake hodges, lake wolford, lake murray, castaic, casitas,

[brushhoggin]

i think he's asking between Kentucky lake and pickwick. not sure there's a definitive answer to that.

[RoLo]

i think he's asking between Kentucky lake and pickwick. not sure there's a definitive answer to that.

I agree.

Kentucky Lake is associated mainly with largemouth bass but during a tourney,

Rick Clunn brought two bronzebacks to the scales that both weighed 5 lb, 10 oz!

Lake Pickwick is associated mainly with smallmouth bass,

but electroshocking has produced some 'whopper' mossbacks in Wilson & Pickwick.

(If the field were wide-open, I'd have to go with Falcon Lake)

Roger

[Fishmaster10]

I don't know much about either of those lakes, but I see that you live in Illinois and Newton Lake is a great lake. I've fished there just three times and I caught my new personal best on one of those trips. If you're interested in going somewhere closer to home I'd give that a shot if you haven't already.  8-)

[roadwarrior]

Pickwick and Kentucky Lake are comparable in both

size and numbers. Last year on the BassResource.com

Roadtrip at Pickwick several members had 100 bass

days and we had at least four PBs! That included

several 5+ greenfish and three 6+ brown fish.

On Sunday, during an 18" deludge, Big O and our

soldiers caught 140, mostly smallmouth, which included

two PBs. Uncle Leo averaged 66 bass per day for

five days.

Nationally, my vote would have to be Falcon for

largemouth; Lake Erie or St. Clair for smallmouth.

Pickwick and Kentucky Lake will never be in contention

for a World Record largemouth, but the next World

Record Smallmouth could be swimming in the Tennessee

River!

http://www.bassresource.com/fishing/smallmouth_record.html

8-)

[Big-O]

I like'em both for similar reasons and I really like Pickwick for the many deep drop bluffs and a tremendous variety of different structure types in short distances or close together... This allows the fisherman to work a variety of different techniques, depths and bait types to determine the most productive bite set-ups.

Heck, I love both lakes a lot but have only fished Kentucky Lake once ever, and Pickwick once in over 30 years. If I lived closer, I'd try to have a shack on both of'em

Big O

www.ragetail.com