According to the report Cumberland is also good for night fishing for walleye as the fishermen found fish halfway up the major creeks on secondary points. They also had 15 stripers. It is said that during the day, try bouncing nightcrawlers off the bottom in 10 to 20 feet of water on seconary points. Stripers are hitting in the early morning also. Fishes like crappie, bass, walleye are being taken at the head of the lake and below the dam in the headwaters.
Now the fishermen are heading towards the Lake Cumberland if they can afford fuel as the lake is abundant with different kinds of fish. Even the department also considers it to launch full time fishing licences in the lake. A resident commercial fishing license cost $150 a year and a non-resident commercial license costs $600.
However, the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife has resumed sales of commercial fishing licenses. The state temporarily suspended the sale of commercial fishing licenses last September over concerns over the commercial harvest of caviar from shovelnose sturgeon and paddlefish.
