Fishing near Madisonville, Kentucky

Madisonville belongs to Hopkins County, Kentucky. There are about 19,539 people here. Running from near to far: Spring Lake under 0.8 miles, Dozier Lake under 1.3 miles to the west, Pleasant View Lake under 3.9 miles, Browns Lake under 5.4 miles to the south then Slaughters Lake under 10 miles. Slaughters Lake is held water: deepest at the wall, shallowing back to the inflow. Dammed water makes up most of the list. Margins hold more than the middle ever will. In milder years the surface stays open. Locals will tell you more than any forecast. The nearest of them, Spring Lake, covers about 9 acres. Parking is recorded at Spring Lake. Open records for Hopkins County list bluegill, paddlefish, black crappie, bowfin and longear sunfish. Weekday evenings are the quietest time on most of these. The run from Madisonville to Spring Lake is the shortest of them all....