Lake Jennings - Catch and Release Report

Hello from your Lake Jennings! We had a lot of worms drown. A lot of mackerel soaked and few chickens donated their livers. A few anglers did very well most did not. The area around the boat dock and the sunken quarry off of Sentry Point were the hot spots. The rest of the lake found the cats being finicky and uncooperative. The bass were not much better. Dawn and dusk topwater tossers average a fish apiece and a sore arm. A few crappie and redears were caught by accident.

Best Trout Spots: None

Best Trout Lures/Bait: None

Best Catfish Spots: Cloister Cove the Sentry quarry and anywhere there is brush.

Best Catfish Lures/Bait: Nightcrawlers are really working well or mackerel. Use scent liberally.

Best Bass Spots: Dawn and dusk tight on the bank. Daylight finds them in 20 to 30 ft. off the points chasing shad.

Best Bass Lures/Bait: Frogs, Pop R’s and 4” pumpkin senkos or shad worms.

Notables: No limits under 30 minutes or fish over 3 lbs. reported.

Water Temperature: 76-78 degrees.

Prognosis:The lake will continue to warm driving our bass closer to the surface, our cats to the shallows and crappie under the fishing float. The best bet appears to be fish bass with topwater 5:30 to 7:00 AM. Bass Assassins until 8:30 AM. Redears in the back of the coves with wax worms, meal worms or 1” pieces of crawlers. Then concentrate on the cats from 6:00 to 9:30 PM.

Current Schedule: We will be open Friday from 5:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m., Saturday from 5:30 a.m. – 12:00 a.m. and Sunday from 5:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Discounted Sunday Boat Rental: We have a twilight special for our motorboats. After 4:00PM on Sundays, motorboats can be rented for $20.00. That gives you over 4 hours of primetime fishing.

FREE Fishing Classes: Lake Jennings Fishing University will hold a fishing class this Sunday at 1:00 p.m. The classes concentrate on what is working best. This week’s class will talk about fishing cats. Most importantly, the classes are FREE! Ranger Hugh will be the professor.

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