Jay Yelas – Day 2 Practice
Monday, June 6, 2016

The fishing was awful tough for me today and several other guys I talked to. I’m not real sure what the fish are doing. They don’t seem to be out deep like they were the last time we were here. They seem to be in that transition phase, like the lake is a little behind seasonally. I saw a lot of fry today so it seems they’re heading that way.

I rode down to New Johnsonville today and the grass is all gone, which is odd because I was here last October for a media event and it was matted out. They did have some high water and rain over the winter so maybe that killed it, but I didn’t see a blade of grass all day.

I’ve had a couple Top-5s out of Barkley, but the section I’ve fished in the past is off limits because of the All-American, so that’s out the window. It looks like I’ll just be fishing Kentucky Lake this week. It’s a big body of water and it takes more than a day to find ‘em. I had two keepers all day and I didn’t see many on the graph either out deep. I know they’re there, I just have to find them.

The water temperature is in the mid to upper 70s, which is kind of cool for June and that’s another reason why I think things have been a little behind.