Every year, towards the end of May, I take a week long trip to Eastern Kentucky to do some fishing with a friend.  We hit up a few lakes in the area (Lake Vesuvius (Ohio), Grayson Lake (Kentucky), and a couple other small ones on the Kentucky side.

 

Each year I go, we end up catching dinks all day long.  Never any bass over a pound, ever.  We certainly catch a decent amount each time, but the weight isn't there. I don't expect this year to be any different, but I'll make the trip in hopes that we'll hook into a decent sized bass.

 

Anyone on here fish Lake Vesuvius or Grayson Lake and have better luck than we do?

17 minutes ago, crankbait2009 said:

Every year, towards the end of May, I take a week long trip to Eastern Kentucky to do some fishing with a friend.  We hit up a few lakes in the area (Lake Vesuvius (Ohio), Grayson Lake (Kentucky), and a couple other small ones on the Kentucky side.

 

Each year I go, we end up catching dinks all day long.  Never any bass over a pound, ever.  We certainly catch a decent amount each time, but the weight isn't there. I don't expect this year to be any different, but I'll make the trip in hopes that we'll hook into a decent sized bass.

 

Anyone on here fish Lake Vesuvius or Grayson Lake and have better luck than we do?

ive heard from a lot of folks that grayson is arguably the worst bass fishing lake in the state of kentucky, never been there but i take their word for it. the guys i know up that way say to fish cave run lake it is much better. Never been on either but i imagine its a standard end of may bite. Put an electric shad rage swimmer on the back of a green pumpkin jig and pumpngo! or a chatterbait

Lake Vesuvious does have big bass but it will be the only fish you catch that day. Two years ago, my fishing buddy and I went to Vesuvious maybe 14-15 times. Only two fish were caught but they both were 5+.  Grayson has also produced some 5+ the last few years but just like you said, you will catch 10 dinks to every 1-2 # fish.  I mostly fish at Yatesville in Louisa. Although they are also full of dinks, the odds of catching a keeper bass is higher in my mind. We have caught more 2-3 pound fish from Yatesville and it also can yield a 5+ bass. The only problem with Yatesville is high fishing pressure.  This pic is one of two 5 # that he caught at Vesuvious out of many days of fishing there