See several guys here from Ky and makes me homesick.  Lived most of my life in or around Louisville until about nine years ago.  Met my wife on the internet and moved up to the buckeye state and got married.

Can't help but think about the many a day I spend crappie fishing on Lake Jerico.  Fantastic crappie lake.  Would catch some a little bigger in a few other places but the numbers from Jerico more than made up the extra inch or two.  Bluegill were nice size and lots of 'em too.  Not a great bass lake though, at least not for me.  Think the biggest I ever caught there was about 2.5lb and most of them were in the 8-14 inch range.  Was supposed to be a great catfish lake but I never fished for them there.  Was owned by Henry county if I recall and could only fish it daylight unless you wanted to pay to camp.

Did a bit of fishing at Giest Creek Lake, not sure of the spelling, too.  Very nice bass lake.  Big crappie too but never caught more than 20 or 25 in a day.  Think some of the biggest bass in the state used to come out of there every year.  My biggest one did.  And with it being so close to Taylorsville lake I could usually have the lake pretty much to myself.

For the times I had the fishing fever but couldn't find the time to get out of town there was an excellent little park pond in Louisville at Waverly Park.  Had to get there at daybreak before the old guys with the deepsea outfits and three foot tall bobbers and all the little kids with the snoopy rods all around the bank.  If I got there right at day break could usually make a round or two of the pond with a buzzbait before it would get too crowded.  Didn't catch a lot of bass but some decent ones.  My biggest from there went 4.5lbs, not too bad for a small public park pond.  Could catch all the crappie you wanted too but at least back then they were pretty small.

Sure do miss living down there, especially since I can only see about half a dozen UK games a year up here.    Not that I'm missing much THIS year, but still.  Anyway, was sitting here thinking about the fishing and hope  you don't mind me sharing.  Maybe some of you fish these waters and can let me know how they are these days.  Better than a decade since I've been on any of them.

Good to know it's still there and still has fish in it.    I would have fished it more but all I had was a bass hunter and a trolling motor and that lake just a little big to do much running around with just a trolling motor.  I would head there for a change of pace from Jerico maybe once a month.  I caught almost all my fish right across from the ramp.  I'd head stright across and then turn right working down the bank.  That used to be wooded when I fished, may still be.  I would work down the wooded bank until I hit where the houses and stuff started and then work my way back.  Most of that area had deeper water not far off the bank and I'd work stuff from up near the bank and down the dropoff.  Caught a few monster crappie out of there too but a big problem with crappie fishing was the 3-4 inch yellow bass grabbing the lures before they could sink down to the crappies level.

Jerico was a pretty good fit for the boat I had so I fished it a lot.  Got to know it like the back of my hand.  Could go pretty much any time and find nice bluegill and crappie.  Not the biggest in the world but still nice and in ungodly numbers. 

Chubminnow,
We fished McNeely Lake about 2 years ago, and didn't catch anything, but the lake itself (some water and the banks) really needed cleaning-up.  The trash (empty plastic bottles, etc) floating along some of the banks really turned us off to McNeely.  Have they cleaned it up lately? 

I lived most of my life in PRP right off Johnsontown road in next to Johnsontown Elementary.  Could smell the fish frying over at Mike Linnigs<sp?>.

No telling how Waverly is now but used to have some nice bass in it.  I don't think it was being managed at the time so who knows what may have happened to it.  Might still be worth a try if you get stuck for time and want to just dip a line.  A buzzbait at day break around the shallows where the creek comes in was my best spot/method.  Guy next door to me used to bring home buckets of nice channel cats he said he caught there but I never tried catfishing it.

I never did like McNeely.  I tried it quite a few times but never did catch much of anything.  Should have been a perfect fit for my little bass hunter and was pretty close to home so had hopes for it but just never did pan out.  Finally gave up on it and would drive that extra hour or so to Jerico.

ka4 - If you'd like to read more about how some of the local waters here in Kentucky are doing you might want to check out www.fishin.com...there's guys that post there who mention Guist Creek from time to time...This website isn't bad either though.

Here's something I dug up.  Taken on the Little Kentucky in 1981.  Excuse the quality, it's a scan from a 25 year old polaroid.

Woke up about 3 local time and couldn't go back to sleep.  I've got major insomnia problems.

We used to get back up the creek a ways in that jeep.  I've got several pictures but think that's one of the better ones.