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Article: KENTUCKY AFIELD OUTDOORS: ELKHORN CREEK, OTHER STREAMS SHOULD HAVE GOOD SMALLMOUTH BASS FISHING THIS YEAR

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March 10, 2009
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FRANKFORT, Ky., March 5 -- The Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources issued the following news release:

Elkhorn Creek, one of the premier smallmouth streams in Kentucky, produced fantastic smallmouth bass fishing from 1998 to 2002. Anglers could expect to catch a few dozen smallmouth in a day's fishing. A couple of these fish were usually longer than the 16-inch upper limit of the 12-16 inch protective slot limit in effect for largemouth and smallmouth bass in the creek.

Fishing flattened out on the Elkhorn in 2003 and the downward trend continued through 2006. It isn't pollution, disease or development that caused this trend. It's rain.

"When we have really wet years, it ...

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