When can you catch Sauger fish?

Sauger is a popular fish that can be targeted all-year-round. Depending on where you live, you can go after them ice fishing during winter months or especially during spring in the southern regions. It is often confused with its close cousin, the walleye because of the stark similarities between the two species.

Where do you catch Sauger?

Saugers are often plentiful in dirty rivers, or in deep, dark holes immediately below dams on large rivers like the Missouri or Mississippi. Where the water is clearer and shallower, not so much.

When is the best time to fly fish in the Cumberland River?

The Cumberland River boasts some excellent fishing of Bass and Trout, and you can also find walleye and sauger. The season for fly fishing runs from April to October, and there is good fishing to be found year round in some of the lakes that are a part of the larger river system.

Where to catch sauger on the Kentucky River?

Anglers fishing from the bank also catch many sauger fishing live crappie minnows on the bottom. The locks and dams on the Kentucky River mainly offer boat fishing opportunities and the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources stocks sauger in the river annually.

What kind of fish are in the Cumberland River tailwater?

Home to the state record 21-pound brown trout and a 14-pound, 6-ounce rainbow trout, the 75-mile Kentucky portion of the Cumberland tailwater rivals the White River of Arkansas and the Caney Fork in Tennessee. Wolf Creek Dam, which holds back the waters of Lake Cumberland, unleashes a powerful current that can be dangerous to paddlers.

Where to go rainbow trout fishing in the Cumberland River?

The next take out is a little over 4.5 miles downstream from Wolf Creek Dam at Helm’s Landing Boat Ramp, located off KY 379 via KY 55 and U.S. 127. Excellent rainbow trout fishing runs all through this stretch of the Cumberland River. Toward the end of this float you will see two rock walls on each side of the river.

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