Looking to go on a quick trip to TN or KY in mid October/November.  Looking for recommendations for lakes/guides.  Would love to get into some topwater action.

Don’t know much about KY but from what I hear Cumberland and laurel are good spots. Fort Loudon where they just had the bassmaster Classic this year is full of smallies but then again I guess every lake in east and middle Tennessee is full of them. I don’t fish topwater much in November but I bet it would work. October is usually still hot so topwater would better in that month I would think. Our lakes fall fast that time of year (except the main river lakes) so the smallies like to suspend a bit offshore and follow shad 

Went to Cumberland last year, 2nd week of October, and it was horrible.  I would wait another month if I was going back there in the fall.