Fishing Report For Taylorsville Lake, KY
By Rick Seaman
April 7, 2025
Fishing Reports
Popular Fish Species Taylorsville Lake, KY
Largemouth Bass
Current Report: Good
Outlook:Good To Very Good
Bass fishing has been good for some time here, from the Van Buren Boat Ramp to Taylorsville Lake State Park. Rocky shorelines, and areas with stumps and standing timber have been the hot spots. In areas with both, you might find a honey hole. A wide variety of lures are catching nice largemouth. Many tournament anglers are throwing vibrating jigs as a primary bait around cover. Crankbaits are catching bass on the steeper, rocky shorelines in the area towards the dam. During slow times, when the bass are finicky, jerkbaits and stick worms rigged wacky style, are getting bites.
Black Crappie - White Crappie
Current Report: Good To Very Good
Outlook: Very Good
Crappie have plenty of cover in the shallows here, and the fishing has been good. Spring is the premiere time to be on the water as crappie move into shallow coves to spawn. Timber, brush, lay-downs and vegetation are a good place to cast small crappie jigs or live minnows. Light tackle with 4 lb to 8 lb line is ideal. Locals report good success using fish finders to locate schools of crappie, which tend to stack vertically around cover.
Hybrid Striped Bass
Current Report: Good
Outlook: Very Good To Excellent
Big hybrid stripers chase baitfish all over the lake. They are being caught up lake toward the incoming current and they feed and prepare to spawn. Locals report using swimbaits, jerkbaits, crankbaits, spoons, live bait and cut bait for both trolling and casting. These wipers will follow baitfish schools to all around the lake, but will migrate toward the dam as Summer warms the water. Use electronics and fish finders to locate schools of both bait and wipers.
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Fish species to fish for...
Guide to fishing for largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, channel catfish, blue catfish, black crappie, white crappie, bluegill, redear sunfish, white bass, hybrid striped bass and saugeye at Taylorsville Lake in Kentucky.
Taylorsville Lake is a 3,000-acre lake with 93 miles of shoreline, and it's loaded with fish. Anglers come to catch bass, crappie, white bass, sunfish, saugeye, hybrid stripers and catfish.
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Rick Seaman is a fishing enthusiast with over five decades of fishing experience, a retired tournament fisherman, author of numerous published articles on fishing, and co-author of the book "Bass Fishing - It's not WHAT you throw, It's WHERE you throw it".
Contact Information
Taylorsville Lake
Taylorsville Lake Marina
1240 Settlers Trace Rd
Taylorsville, KY 40071
502 477-8766
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Taylorsville Lake, Kentucky Report
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Taylorsville Lake, in north-central KY offers anglers the chance to fish for bass, crappie, white bass, sunfish, saugeye, hybrid stripers and catfish.
