Without checking anything official, Derek Remitz guessed the TVA water releases yesterday at Kentucky Lake were "somewhere between 25,000 and 35,000" cubic feet per second. Actually it was 29,000 cfs, which it has been since Thursday and that' forecast to continue through today.
"That's just enough," Remitz said. "As long as you've got something."
Remitz believes the high skies and warm temperatures are equally important for his success. "It's getting hot, like it needs to be," he said. "That's what pushes 'em out there (on the ledges). Every fish I'm catching, if they're not spitting up shad, they're crapping all over my deck. This is the kind of weather that makes them feed."
Remitz has been alternating constantly between a crankbait, a swimbait and a hair jig. He caught one of his keepers on an Azuma Z-Boss 25 that Timmy Horton gave him. "On the first cast, I caught a 5 1/2-pounder," Remitz said. "I never caught anything else on it, but that worked out pretty good."