Pick your road before you pick your ramp

57,900 acres of Cumberland River at summer pool behind a 157-foot Corps of Engineers dam that is 10,180 feet long, with 2,082,000 acre-feet of storage, four generating units, a lock that passes river traffic twenty hours a day, a 1.75-mile canal to Kentucky Lake, and 170,000 acres of national recreation area down its whole western shore. Fifteen-inch bass, ten-inch crappie with a creel of twenty, fourteen-inch sauger, and a Kentucky–Tennessee reciprocal agreement that covers Kentucky Lake next door and does not cover this one. Roughly forty thousand acres of the lake are in Kentucky; this page is about those.

The lake in one paragraph

Barkley Lock and Dam is, in the Corps’ words, “the western most Project on the Cumberland River, located in Livingston and Lyon Counties, 30.6 miles above its confluence with the Ohio River.” It was authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 1946, construction began in June 1957, and the dam “started operation in early 1966 when the first of its four units were placed on line.” The project was “redesignated as Barkley Lock and Dam and Lake Barkley in honor of the late Alben W. Barkley, the 35th Vice President and United States Senator from Paducah, Kentucky.” The dam is concrete-gravity and earth fill, 157 feet high and 10,180 feet long, with twelve tainter gates rated at 520,000 cubic feet per second, four generating units totalling 130,000 kilowatts, and a 110-by-800-foot lock with a normal lift of 57 feet between the 302-foot tailwater and the 359-foot pool. Behind it the lake runs 118.1 river miles into Tennessee, past the Fort Donelson battlefield at Dover, with 1,004 miles of shoreline, 2,082,000 acre-feet of storage and a drainage area of 17,598 square miles. Three miles above the dam a canal 1.75 miles long, 400 feet wide at the bottom and 11 feet deep at minimum pool joins it to Kentucky Lake, so that a boat can run from the Tennessee River to the Cumberland without a lock. The Corps’ Nashville District runs the dam and the pool from the Lake Barkley Resource Managers Office at Grand Rivers. KDFWR files the Kentucky waters under Livingston, Lyon and Trigg counties in the Western Fisheries District. The western shore from the canal to the state line is Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area, run by the Forest Service; the eastern shore is Corps campgrounds, two state parks, county ramps and every marina on the lake. The thing that makes this lake different from Kentucky Lake, a canal away, is that the reciprocal licence agreement stops at the canal.

The pool year, and where to read it

Unlike Kentucky Lake, this lake has a dated operating plan on a page we could read. The Corps’ 2017 Master Plan states it in one sentence: “The targeted water surface elevation for Lake Barkley from December 1st until April 1st is 354 feet AMSL, increasing to 357 feet AMSL by April 15th, and climbing to 359 feet AMSL by May 1st.” That is a five-foot swing — the same five feet as Kentucky Lake, a foot less than Cave Run, a fraction of Lake Cumberland’s twenty-three — on a lake whose jobs are navigation depth, flood storage and power. The Master Plan gives no date for the start of the fall drawdown. KDFWR’s 2021 bass assessment does: “water level is drawn down from summer pool starting around July 5th” and “Winter pool level is 354-ft above mean sea level (msl) and is reached by December 1”. That is a fisheries agency describing the Corps’ schedule, so we print it with its source and not as the Corps’ own step.

Those are targets. The Corps writes “mean sea level” and “AMSL”; no page we read names NGVD29 or NAVD88, so we print elevations as feet above mean sea level, as published by the Corps, and no datum label. Status pending.

What five feet does here

Five feet on a lake this flat is not the drama it is on a hill-country reservoir, and KDFWR’s access records carry no winter-pool warning on any Lake Barkley launch — not one of the thirty-nine says “cannot be used at winter pool” the way five of Cave Run’s do. What the records do say is which ramps are unpaved, and on this lake it is the same three that carry the note “Not Maintained”: Barnett Bay, Mammoth Furnace and Ford Bay, all Forest Service, all on the Trace. Add the paved single-lane ramps with no courtesy dock — Boyd’s Landing, Eddy Creek Ramp, Little River Ramp, Kuttawa Landing, Eddyville Ferry, Honker Bay and Shaw Branch — and you have the launches to look at before you back down after the lake starts toward 354.

Seven roads in

KDFWR’s waterbody record lists 39 access sites on the lake, with a direction string for each, and every string starts from one of four places: “US 62/641 W of Eddyville”, “KY 93 S of Eddyville”, “KY 778 NW of Cadiz” or “US 68/80 W of Cadiz” — plus “KY 453 S of Smithland” for the two on the canal and “KY 139 S of Cadiz” for Linton. The corridors below are built from those strings, from the Corps’ Recreation.gov directions (I-24 exits 31, 40 and 65) and from the Forest Service’s own boating page, not from a map divided into quarters. A corridor is one day’s worth of road — the highway in, then every ramp, marina and campground that highway serves without recrossing the lake. The dossier proposed five; two are split here along seams it already named. Its dam corridor ran from I-24 exit 31 at Grand Rivers to exit 40 at Kuttawa with eleven launches, so it is two corridors, one per exit. Its Trace corridor had twelve launches and described them as “two half-day runs from the two entrances”, so it is two corridors, one per entrance — the same rule that split Monticello on Lake Cumberland and Murray on Kentucky Lake.

That is 39 KDFWR access records, every one of them a trailered ramp — KDFWR lists no carry-down-only or bank-only site on this lake. KDFWR lists six with a fee, every one of them a campground or a private marina: Canal Campground, Kuttawa Harbor (“$5.00 launch fee”), Green Turtle Bay, Holiday Hills, Prizer Point and Boat Haven. The other thirty-three are “Fee: No” on the record, including both state-park ramps, every Corps day-use ramp and every Forest Service ramp — the Forest Service says it in its own words: “Boat ramps within Land Between the Lakes are free for public use.” Seven are multi-lane: Barkley Tailwater, Kuttawa Harbor, Kuttawa/Lyon County, Green Turtle Bay, Mineral Mound, Lake Barkley State Park and Devil’s Elbow – LBL. “Any trailerable” below is KDFWR’s “any trailerable recreational boat”; “light” is “any light trailerable recreational boat”. Directions are KDFWR’s, verbatim; KDFWR writes “Trace Road” for KY 453, and on three records prints “US 60/80” where the highway is US 68/80.

Corridor 1 — Barkley Dam: I-24 exit 31, KY 453 and US 62 / US 641 at Grand Rivers

The arrival from Paducah and from the Grand Rivers exit, and it serves the dam, the tailwater, the canal and the lake’s resort marina. KY 453 south from I-24 runs through Grand Rivers to the Corps’ Canal Campground “prior to crossing canal”; US 62/641 crosses the dam itself, with Double Creek on KY 917 on the lake side and the tailwater ramp “left at Barkley Dam” on the river side. Two of the four launches are no-fee; the other two are a Corps campground and a private resort. The Corps’ office is here — 200 Barkley Dam Overlook, Grand Rivers, (270) 362-4236, Monday to Friday 7 to 4.

Corridor 2 — Kuttawa and Eddyville: I-24 exit 40, US 62 / US 641, KY 810, KY 295 and the first mile of KY 93

KDFWR’s direction strings all begin “US 62/641 W of Eddyville” and turn off for the water: KY 810 for Eureka, Boyd’s Landing and Buzzard Rock, the Suwanee turn for Poplar Creek, KY 295 for the two Kuttawa ramps, and KY 93 “S of Eddyville” for Mineral Mound, which sits where this corridor meets the next. The Corps routes Old Kuttawa from I-24 exit 40. This is the north shore of the widest water above the dam, and it holds three of the lake’s seven multi-lane launches, two of them with 51+ paved spaces and no fee: Kuttawa/Lyon County, “0.25 miles south of I-24”, and Mineral Mound State Park. Six of the seven launches are no-fee.

Corridor 3 — Eddy Creek: KY 93 south of Eddyville, KY 293, KY 730, KY 818 and KY 274

KDFWR’s strings all begin “KY 93 S of Eddyville”: six miles to Holiday Hills Road, seven miles to Eddy Creek Public Access, KY 293 and then KY 730 or KY 818 for the two county ramps at the head of the creek, and KY 274 south for Dryden Creek. This is the big Eddy Creek embayment and the east-shore backroad below it — two marinas with camping, then nothing but free single-lane ramps. Eddy Creek Public Access, paved with a dock, a cleaning station and 26–50 spaces, is the dependable launch on the road. Four of the five are no-fee. KY 274 continues south past Dryden Creek into Corridor 4.

Corridor 4 — KY 778 north-west from Cadiz: Hurricane Creek, Prizer Point and Rockcastle

The east-shore embayments between Eddyville and the Canton bridge, reached from Cadiz by the KY 778 and KY 276 backroads rather than US 68. KDFWR routes all three launches “KY 778 NW of Cadiz; left on KY 276”, then right on KY 274 for Prizer Point or left on KY 274 for Rockcastle; the Corps gives Hurricane Creek’s address as Eddyville. Either town works, and KDFWR’s is the one printed. One Corps campground, one resort marina, one free day-use ramp with a year-round picnic ground; two of the three are no-fee.

Corridor 5 — US 68 / KY 80 from Cadiz: the Little River arm, the state park, the Canton bridge and KY 164 to Linton

The highway from I-24 exit 65 and the one road that crosses the lake. US 68/80 west from Cadiz reaches the KY 274 turn for the three Little River launches, the entrance to Lake Barkley State Resort Park, and then the H. R. Lawrence Memorial bridge at Canton with a Corps ramp on KY 164 at its east end and a big Forest Service ramp “first road to left after crossing” on the west. KY 164 continues south from Canton to Donaldson Creek and Linton; KY 139 south from Cadiz is the other way to Linton, and the Corps’ Cadiz Recreation Area ramp is on Jefferson Street off KY 139 at the head of the Little River, with no KDFWR record. Seven of the eight launches are no-fee. This is the only corridor with a lodge, and the lodge is half closed.

Corridor 6 — The Trace, north run: KY 453 from the dam, Forest Service roads 102 to 127

The Woodlands Trace National Scenic Byway — “Trace Road” in every KDFWR direction string, KY 453 on the map — is a single north–south road down the spine of Land Between the Lakes, and the numbered Forest Service roads drop east from it to the Lake Barkley ramps. Enter from the north at the dam off US 62/641 and every string here reads “US 62/641 W of Eddyville; KY 453 S (Trace Road)” before the road number: 102 for Nickell Branch, 108 for Demumbers Bay, 117 for Eddyville Ferry Landing and, via 126 and 127, Kuttawa Landing, Eddyville Ferry Road for the two unmaintained ramps, and 117 then 118 for Cravens Bay. Every ramp is Forest Service and free. There is no marina, no fuel and no store on this shore on any record we read; every marina on the lake is across the water. What there is instead is camping — self-service campgrounds at Nickell Branch and Cravens Bay, where you fill out a fee envelope and drop it in the “Iron Ranger”; a basic camping area at Demumbers Bay that needs a per-person backcountry permit; and KDFWR “camping year-round” flags at Kuttawa Landing (“tents only”), Barnett Bay and Mammoth Furnace, which are dispersed Forest Service ground under the same permit rule.

Corridor 7 — The Trace, south run: KY 453 from Golden Pond, Forest Service roads 133 to 165 and 347

Enter the Trace in the middle, at Golden Pond off US 68/80, and the KDFWR strings read “US 68/80 W of Cadiz; north on KY 453 (Trace Road)” for four launches and “S on KY 453” for one. North: Road 133, the Silver Trail, then 134 and 135 for Honker Bay; 135, Mulberry Flat Road, then 136 for Taylor Bay; 134 for Crooked Creek and, with 154, Shaw Branch. South: Road 165 and then 347 for Ford Bay, unpaved and “Not Maintained”. All five are free. The Forest Service boating page names three more Lake Barkley launches on this half of LBL that have no KDFWR record and no published coordinates — “Energy Dam-Inland lake next to Barkley Lake and a ramp to Barkley Lake”, “Neville Bay Camping Area” and “Gatlin Point Campground” — and they are in the callout, not the table or the map. The Trace crosses US 68 here, so Devil’s Elbow on Corridor 5 is minutes east of any launch on this run.

What the regulations tell you about the lake

The waterbody record carries no additional-restrictions line, and the 2026 Fishing Forecast restates the sauger rule as “harvestable-size (>14.0 inch)” and says of yellow bass, “There is no size or creel limit and harvest is encouraged.” The table is identical to Kentucky Lake’s, and it reads the same way. A 15-inch minimum on both black bass with the statewide creel is what a state writes on water it manages for size; KDFWR’s forecast says the “numbers of keeper size fish in Lake Barkley remain below long-term averages” while “a very good spawn in 2023” is coming up on the minimum. A 10-inch crappie minimum with a combined creel of twenty is a harvest lake that wants the small ones left in. A 14-inch sauger rule with a creel of six says the river species is still here in numbers worth managing. Everything else — catfish, sunfish, striper, white bass — is statewide, and statewide changes.

The western shore is a national recreation area, and the islands are a WMA

Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is, in the Corps’ words, “a large, multidiscipline management area consisting of 170,000 acres” operated by the Forest Service, and it is the whole western shore of the Kentucky lake from the canal to the state line. The rules that reach an angler are in the Corridor 6 callout above; the short version is that every ramp is free, camping needs a permit or a paid site, and nothing may be camped within 200 yards of the Trace, the Silver Trail, Mulberry Flat Road or US 68/80. Of the Forest Service’s eleven self-service campgrounds, four are on Lake Barkley — Nickell Branch, Cravens Bay, Taylor Bay and Gatlin Point; the developed Energy Lake campground and the basic areas at Demumbers Bay and Neville Bay are here too. The rest are Kentucky Lake side. On the eastern shore the Corps’ Master Plan says “approximately 4,384 acres are licensed to KDFWR”, and KDFWR’s record for Lake Barkley WMA describes it in one line: “WMA consist primarily of islands in Lake Barkley with Duck Island maintained as waterfowl refuge.” It is 907 acres in Trigg and Lyon counties, owned and managed by the Corps. KDFWR’s GPS point for the WMA is, to the fourth decimal, the Linton ramp.

Two parts of the lake are closed to fishing and boating from 1 November each winter. The regulation is 301 KAR 2:222, Section 3, effective 20 July 2023, read on 27 October 2026. “The area west of the Cumberland River channel, as marked by buoys,” “between river mile 51, at Hayes Landing Light, south to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s power transmission lines” “at river mile 55.5, shall be closed from November 1 through February 15”; and “The area within Honker Bay and Fulton Bay, as marked by buoys and signs, shall be closed from November 1 through March 15.” KDFWR’s Waterfowl Public Land Hunts page (undated, read the same day) says what “closed” means there: “Refuge areas closed to all hunting, fishing, boating and molesting of all species listed are:” the area west of the main channel from mile 51 to the power lines at mile 55.5, “closed Nov. 1 - Feb. 15”, and “the area west of a line from the north point of the mouth of Fulton Bay to the south point of the mouth of Honker Bay”, closed 1 November to 15 March. The two agree on both sets of dates; they word the bay boundary differently, so read the buoys and signs on the water. So from 1 November you may not fish or run a boat inside those buoy lines: the river-mile 51 to 55.5 refuge until 15 February, the Honker Bay and Fulton Bay refuge until 15 March. Duck Island is a different rule: the regulation bars hunting “On Duck Island; or” “Within 200 yards of Duck Island” from 15 October through 15 March, and closes nothing else there. The WMA record reads differently, and we print it as the conflicting source it is: it says “Fishing, boating and other water-related sports”; it gives the North Island Refuge as “closed Nov. 1-Feb. 15” in one place and “The North Refuge is closed Nov. 1 - March 15” in another; and it gives Duck Island Refuge as “Closed Oct. 15-March 15, with the exception of the October muzzleloader deer season.” It names no river miles, so which water its North Island Refuge covers is status pending. Where they differ, the regulation is the rule. Our journal piece on the waterfowl refuge closures anglers run into sets these against the other Kentucky refuges. A fall angler on the western shore is also in a national recreation area with its own permit system. The Corps’ annual duck blind drawing is “held third Monday of September at 8 a.m.”

KDFWR lists no bank-only access sites for Lake Barkley. Every ramp record above also lists a shoreline availability, most of them year-round, so bank fishing at the ramps is the published bank access.

The lock, the canal and the carp fence

Three things about the dam end that the access records do not say. The canal is the reason the two lakes fish as one system: in the Corps’ words it “connects Kentucky Lake and Barkley Lake upstream of the respective dams, allowing commercial and recreational vessels access from the Tennessee River to the Cumberland River and vice versa” — 1.75 miles, about three miles above each dam, 400 feet wide at the bottom and 11 feet deep at minimum pool. The lock is 110 by 800 feet with a 57-foot normal lift, and the Corps’ 2015 statement is that traffic passes “20 hours a day, 365 days a year” with a closure “between the hours of 2 and 6 a.m. daily”; the 2026 dewatering closure, confirmed by the Corps’ 15 September 2026 release, is in the Corridor 1 callout, with the Corps notice that the lock would be available to traffic during 13–20 October 2026 and the date it returned to service status pending. And at the lock there is a bio-acoustic fish fence, announced by the Corps on 31 July 2019 as a three-year trial with the Fish and Wildlife Service, USGS, TWRA and KDFWR: “The BAFF casts a barrier of bubbles, sound and light to deflect the noise-sensitive Asian carp from entering an area.” KDFWR’s 2026 forecast is blunter about what is already in the lake: “the invasion of invasive carp (Silver, Bighead, Grass, and Black carp) into the lake and tailwaters has created an excellent bowfishing opportunity”, and “The best fishing is in the tailwaters where invasive carp and other rough species often congregate.” What the fence has achieved since 2019 is not on any page we read; status pending.

What KDFWR’s 2026 forecast says

The Fishing Forecast is a dated document, so these are quoted as the agency’s 2026 statements, not as this week’s report. The entry is “LAKE BARKLEY and TAILWATER”, so some of it is the river.

• Largemouth bass: “Shallow water fishing for spawning bass can be very productive in the spring around button ball bushes with a variety of baits. During post spawn most bass move to drop-offs in the main lake and mouths of the bays.” “In fall and winter, bass move into the bays to feed on shad.” “a very good spawn in 2023 has greatly increased the number of fish around the 12-inch mark. This group turns 3 years old in 2026, and many will be approaching the 15-inch minimum size by fall.”
• Smallmouth bass: “Smallmouth Bass make up an increasing portion of the total bass population. Many tournament anglers are finding more success catching Smallmouth Bass in the last several years than any other time in recent history. Fishing is best around rocky shorelines near deep water, main lake points, and the canal during late winter and early spring with suspending jerk baits.”
• Crappie: “Fish are shallow in early to mid April around buttonball bushes, brush piles and stake beds. Crappie move to secondary channels, drops, and flats near creek channels during the fall and winter and are most frequently found near structure. White Crappie are more abundant than Black Crappie at the keeper sizes.” “most crappie are reaching harvestable sizes in just 2-3 years.”
• Sauger: “Population consisting of low numbers of harvestable-size (>14.0 inch) fish. However, recent angler catches have improved. Most fish are caught trolling deep diving crankbaits near secondary channel breaks during the early summer. Anglers may find slightly better luck in the tailwaters.”
• Striped bass: “The tailwater produces better, more consistent catches, but the lake produces a few fish as well. Fish deep main channel ledges near bridges and other places with current.”
• White bass: “Like Striped Bass, better fishing generally occurs in the tailwaters. Look for schools of shad breaking the surface during summer and fall.”
• Yellow bass: “Yellow Bass are extremely abundant, but most are less than 10 inches.” “There is no size or creel limit and harvest is encouraged.”
• Blue catfish: “Good numbers of 10- to 20-pounders with the occasional 50+ pounder. Best fishing is during late spring and summer along deep river channels.”
• Channel catfish: “Best fishing occurs in May along rocky banks and during summer along the main river channel and adjacent flats.”
• Bluegill: “Good numbers of fish up to 9 inches. The best fishing comes in May on sand or gravel spawning beds.”
• Redear sunfish: “Good numbers of 9- to 11-inch fish with trophies up to 12 inches. Prime fishing occurs in late April and May as fish are spawning.”

The forecast names bays, main-lake points, secondary channels, the canal and the tailwater rather than creeks by name, so read it against the corridors: the canal and the deep dam pool are Corridors 1 and 2; the bays it sends fall bass into are every creek arm in the tables above; the bridge it names for stripers is Canton, on Corridor 5. No KDFWR page we read gives a stocking figure for any species on this lake, so we do not print one. KDFWR’s 2021 assessment calls the Kentucky portion “eutrophic” and says the level fluctuates “approximately 5 feet between summer and winter pool” — the Corps’ five feet from the fisheries side.

Where the state has put cover

KDFWR publishes a Google My Maps layer and a GPX file of marked fish-attractor sites for Lake Barkley, from the agency’s attractor index — Lake_Barkley.gpx — and the waterbody record links a folder of “various formats for download”. We have not opened and counted the file, and KDFWR does not state a count, so there is no number here. Take the file from them.

What we have not verified

• Current pool and tailwater release. Live. USGS 03438210 serves no data. Read the Corps’ water-management site, TVA’s Barkley page or TVA’s lake line (800-238-2264, code 40), not any number printed on a website, including this one. The Corps’ Cumberland River generation schedule is linked from the same site and was not readable.
• The date Barkley Lock went back into service. The closure from 10 August is confirmed by the Corps’ release of 15 September 2026, which planned reopening for 1 October. Corps navigation notice 215145 / 26-27, effective 2 October 2026, said the lock “will be available to pass traffic via the Barkley Canal” while Kentucky Lock was closed from 13 to 20 October 2026 (read on the irpt.net repost, 1 November 2026). No Corps statement giving the date it returned to service was found on army.mil or dvidshub.net on 1 November 2026. Status pending.
• Drawdown start. “Around July 5th” is KDFWR’s 2021 description, not a Corps step. Attributed.
• Elevation datum. No Corps page we read names NGVD29 or NAVD88. Status pending.
• Acreage. Four agency figures. We print the Corps’ 57,900 with the note.
• Maximum depth, mean depth. No primary figure. Status pending.
• Canal Campground closure, 26 March to 26 May 2027, for road paving. Recreation.gov notice, verbatim, read 10 and 14 September 2026. Live.
• Corps campground season dates. 2026 dates from the Nashville District page. Roll over yearly.
• Lake Barkley State Resort Park lodge reopening. Not published on any page read. Status pending. Campground and site-electricity notes are live.
• Mineral Mound State Park hours and facilities. Only the ramp record was read. Status pending.
• Kentucky–Tennessee state line on the lake. Not read from a primary map. Not described.
• Reciprocal agreement PDF. Unreadable; linked, not summarised. The finding — Barkley is not in it — comes from the KDFWR page and 301 KAR 3:160, both read on 15 September 2026.
• Moon River Marina. Named on the Corps Lakes Gateway only; location not verified. Not placed.
• Energy Dam, Neville Bay and Gatlin Point coordinates. Not published. Not mapped.
• Barkley Tailwater’s four downstream ramps (Dycusburg, Iuka, Pinckneyville, Vicksburg) and the Barkley Tailwater VPA bank site. On the tailwater record; not this water. A tailwater dossier is needed before any of them is printed.
• LBL fees, no-wake sentence, fish-fence results. Fees live and not printed; the no-wake rule was a paraphrase and is not quoted; the BAFF’s results are not on any page read.
• Fish attractor count. GPX not opened. Status pending.
• Algal bloom status. Kentucky publishes advisories only through the Division of Water’s interactive HAB viewer. Check it directly in summer.
• The Tennessee reach. Bumpus Mills (15 sites, 5 May to 5 September in 2026, ramp and marina), Dover, Dyers Creek, Cross Creeks refuge and the Tennessee Barkley WMA are named in Corps sources and were not researched. Different agency, different limits, different licence. Status pending for everything south of the state line.

Upcoming tournaments on this water

Filed or published by the organisers; each row is the organiser’s own wording, read on the date shown, and a closed or youth event still tells you when the ramp will be busy. Confirm the date, the ramp and the entry with the organiser before you go. The full calendar is at Tournaments.

• 3 Apr 2027WildcatWildcat (contact Dave Chaney)Mineral Mound State Park · 6:00 AM to 3:00 PMBlack bass · Open TournamentEntry fee: not stated (read 28 Oct 2026)Organiser’s details as published, read 28 Oct 2026 · Organiser’s KDFWR filing
• 17 Apr 2027West KY SAF High School/JR TBF Sanctioned TrailMC Anglers (Marshall County Anglers)Kuttawa/Lyon County Boat Ramp · 5:00 AM to 4:00 PMBlack bass · Open Tournament; high school and junior trailEntry fee: not stated (read 28 Oct 2026)Organiser’s details as published, read 28 Oct 2026 · Organiser’s KDFWR filing
• 18 Apr 2027WildcatWildcat (contact Dave Chaney)Mineral Mound State Park · 6:00 AM to 3:00 PM (filed note: SUNDAY)Black bass · Open TournamentEntry fee: not stated (read 28 Oct 2026)Organiser’s details as published, read 28 Oct 2026 · Organiser’s KDFWR filing
• 24 Apr 2027KHSAA (as filed)Major League Fishing (filed for the KHSAA event)Kuttawa/Lyon County Boat Ramp · 7:00 AM to 3:00 PMBlack bass · Open Tournament (as filed); KHSAA high school bass fishingEntry fee: not stated (read 28 Oct 2026)Organiser’s details as published, read 28 Oct 2026 · Organiser’s KDFWR filing
• 5 Jun 2027Kentucky BASS Nation QualifierKentucky BASS NationKuttawa/Lyon County Boat Ramp · 5:15 AM to 2:00 PMBlack bass · Open TournamentEntry fee: not stated (read 28 Oct 2026)Organiser’s details as published, read 28 Oct 2026 · Organiser’s KDFWR filing

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