Due to the high water on Priest, we decided to move the May tourney to Old Hickory. My partner for the day would be Steve Becker. We had 4 boats fishing today.
We headed out of Spencer Creek and made a long trip down lake to a small cove down lake and across from Bluegrass and started covering shallow water around some docks, shore grass, and scattered wood. I caught 2 club keepers in the cove and lost a giant that just pulled off.
We then moved up to Bluegrass, and ran the same pattern, but we only caught a couple of fish here.
Next we ran up lake about 3-4 miles to a cut near Avondale. We pitched plastics and spinnerbaits to wood and grass. I was able to round out my limit on this flat, but I did lose a nice 3 lb class fish here.
We checked one spot in Cedar Cr, but no takers here. We now had about one hour left to fish, so we decided to fish in Spencer Creek, near the ramp. I caught my largest fish of the day, which was a chunky 18" largemouth, on the lizard with about 15 minutes left to fish. The fish was sitting ounder a deeper lay down in 3-5 ft of water.
I finished first, and tied with Sam for big fish of the day. It was a nice day on the water. For the day, Steve and I landed around 12 fish.
Tight lines,
RBK
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Boat is back in business...
Bee is back in business! Picked her up from repair shop today. Starting the break-in period and fishing the Lion's Club Fishing For Sight on Saturday.
Monday, April 18, 2011
TBT Trail- Center Hill 4-17-11- Ouch that hurt!...
Wow, did we ever suck on Center Hill Sunday! I was not able to find much in practice last weekend, but the one decent bite I found did pay off early, when Dwayne stuck a 2 3/4 lb LM on the spinnerbait deep on a bluff. We felt pretty good to have a solid keeper in the first hour, but nothing happened for the next four hours at all. We bounce around from deep to shallow to in-between. We threw crankbaits, jerkbaits, spinnerbaits, jigs, rigs, and worms.
We finally stumbled on to an area holding some decent spots that was at the end of a bluff mid-lake. The spots were holding in 6-15 ft of water on a transition area. I caught a solid 13 1/2" spot on a blade, and DD nabbed a 12" one on a rig. We stayed on the spot for and hour or so, and then we decided to go try to run that pattern until weigh in. We were in all out speed fishing, scramble mode. We couldn't duplicate it anywhere else, so we loaded her on the trailer at 3 pm, and took our well deserved beating from the other anglers.
We ended up with 3 keepers for just over 5 lbs, and I'm sure we were close to last. We didn't stick around, but Dwayne did say that he saw an 18 lb and 14 lb bag in line.
Oh well- some days it's just not in the cards, and this one was obviuosly not our day.
Until next time.
We finally stumbled on to an area holding some decent spots that was at the end of a bluff mid-lake. The spots were holding in 6-15 ft of water on a transition area. I caught a solid 13 1/2" spot on a blade, and DD nabbed a 12" one on a rig. We stayed on the spot for and hour or so, and then we decided to go try to run that pattern until weigh in. We were in all out speed fishing, scramble mode. We couldn't duplicate it anywhere else, so we loaded her on the trailer at 3 pm, and took our well deserved beating from the other anglers.
We ended up with 3 keepers for just over 5 lbs, and I'm sure we were close to last. We didn't stick around, but Dwayne did say that he saw an 18 lb and 14 lb bag in line.
Oh well- some days it's just not in the cards, and this one was obviuosly not our day.
Until next time.
Friday, April 1, 2011
April 2nd, 2011 F3 Club tourney- Priest...
Another tough day on Priest. My plan to run to a major creek down lake and catch a limit of club keepers didn't pan out. We only had two in there. Other than that, we just covered water with the little shad rap. I was able to scratch out a limit that weighed around 8.5 lbs, which was good for first place.
The key was finding big chunk rock, boulders, and flat rocks at the head of a spawning area.
Conditions: 38-67 deg air temp and mostly sunny; wind NNW at 10-20 MPH; 52-56 deg water temp (mostly clear).
Later-
RBK
The key was finding big chunk rock, boulders, and flat rocks at the head of a spawning area.
Conditions: 38-67 deg air temp and mostly sunny; wind NNW at 10-20 MPH; 52-56 deg water temp (mostly clear).
Later-
RBK
Sunday, March 20, 2011
March 20th, 2011 TBT Trail - Priest
Wow was it tough today. We ended up with 2 keepers for 3.86 lbs, which put us right in the middle of the pack, in 10th.
It only took 10 lbs to win.
The best fish came on a shad rap in 2-3 ft of water near Smith Springs, and DD cauht a keeper spot on the rig in Hamilton Cr.
On the day we caught around 15 fish, with little quality.
Conditions: Water level was at Winter Pool; 54-59 degrees. Weather was mostly sunny and warm, with highs in the low 70's, and SW winds at 5-15 MPH.
Until next time.
RBK
It only took 10 lbs to win.
The best fish came on a shad rap in 2-3 ft of water near Smith Springs, and DD cauht a keeper spot on the rig in Hamilton Cr.
On the day we caught around 15 fish, with little quality.
Conditions: Water level was at Winter Pool; 54-59 degrees. Weather was mostly sunny and warm, with highs in the low 70's, and SW winds at 5-15 MPH.
Until next time.
RBK
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011- F3 Club tourney....
Met Duke at the ramp at 5:30, and we headed up-lake a couple of miles to try some shallow cranking in the pockets across from a bluff. It didn't take long to find a wad of little uns. The fish were chewing a SSR Shad Rap in 1-3 ft on the flat points at the mouth of the pockets. Duke limited out pretty quickly, catching 5 "club keepers" from 12-13 1/2", and I caught two.
Around 7:15 the fish shut off, so we decided to run down lake to find some bigger ones. We eased under the big bridge to my favorite early Spring area near Smith Springs, and we only had one bite, but it was a big ole good un of a brown fish. The fish measured 18" and fell for my old standby #5 Shad Rap. The odd thing was she was inside the pocket, and the deeper 45 degree bank didn't pay off at all (no wind on it).
We moved down to Hamilton Creek, and I added two club keepers on the shallow banks on the Shad Rap. I needed one more, so we eased over to Suggs Creek and went back to chunkin and windin the little plug on the secondary points near the creek mouth. I caught two keepers here, and one of them was a nice 17 1/2" smallie.
We bounced around trying to run the shallow secondary point pattern, but we ran out of time.
All in all, it was a good day for the first trip out on PP. I ended up with 10.3 lbs; first place and big fish for the 18" brownie.
Conditions: mostly clear; low 36 and high around 60 when we left at noon; winds 10-15 out of the SSW; water temps 49-53 degrees.
Tight lines.
RBK
Around 7:15 the fish shut off, so we decided to run down lake to find some bigger ones. We eased under the big bridge to my favorite early Spring area near Smith Springs, and we only had one bite, but it was a big ole good un of a brown fish. The fish measured 18" and fell for my old standby #5 Shad Rap. The odd thing was she was inside the pocket, and the deeper 45 degree bank didn't pay off at all (no wind on it).
We moved down to Hamilton Creek, and I added two club keepers on the shallow banks on the Shad Rap. I needed one more, so we eased over to Suggs Creek and went back to chunkin and windin the little plug on the secondary points near the creek mouth. I caught two keepers here, and one of them was a nice 17 1/2" smallie.
We bounced around trying to run the shallow secondary point pattern, but we ran out of time.
All in all, it was a good day for the first trip out on PP. I ended up with 10.3 lbs; first place and big fish for the 18" brownie.
Conditions: mostly clear; low 36 and high around 60 when we left at noon; winds 10-15 out of the SSW; water temps 49-53 degrees.
Tight lines.
RBK
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Guntersville TBT Sunday, 2-27-11....
Dwayne and I met in the Boro at 3:30 am to hit the road to Big G. We registered, and since we had sent in our entry early, we were boat #5, which was a good thing, since our first stop was a well known community hole.
We made the short run to our first stop, and we pounded that spot for about an hour and a half with only two fish coming over the rail, but one of them was a solid 4 lbr that I caught on a swimbait. From there, we eased into the back of a creek to check some staging areas adjacent to a series of large spawning flats. We started in the creek channel, and we hit a couple of brush piles that paid off. We landed our second and third keepers here, with one of them being a 5 3/4 lb fish. We stayed in the back of the creek for another hour or so, but we could not add to the creel.
We eased back to our first spot of the day, and Dwayne caught a nice 3 lb fish on the swimbait. We kept pounding the area, but nothing else bit. We now had 4 fish for around 16 lbs, but we needed number 5.
Since the back of the creek had warmed up we figured we'd ease up on the shallow flats and try the old pad stems. We ended up catching around 5 fish in the stems on a Chatterbait, and two of them were keepers. We culled one time and figured we needed another kicker to break the 20 lb mark.
We decided to go back to the deep spot and finish the day throwing the swimbait. Unfortunately, we didn't catch any more.
We weighed in 18.99 lbs and finished in 5th place (of course they paid 4!).
All in all it was a good day on the water.
Until next time.
RBK
We made the short run to our first stop, and we pounded that spot for about an hour and a half with only two fish coming over the rail, but one of them was a solid 4 lbr that I caught on a swimbait. From there, we eased into the back of a creek to check some staging areas adjacent to a series of large spawning flats. We started in the creek channel, and we hit a couple of brush piles that paid off. We landed our second and third keepers here, with one of them being a 5 3/4 lb fish. We stayed in the back of the creek for another hour or so, but we could not add to the creel.
We eased back to our first spot of the day, and Dwayne caught a nice 3 lb fish on the swimbait. We kept pounding the area, but nothing else bit. We now had 4 fish for around 16 lbs, but we needed number 5.
Since the back of the creek had warmed up we figured we'd ease up on the shallow flats and try the old pad stems. We ended up catching around 5 fish in the stems on a Chatterbait, and two of them were keepers. We culled one time and figured we needed another kicker to break the 20 lb mark.
We decided to go back to the deep spot and finish the day throwing the swimbait. Unfortunately, we didn't catch any more.
We weighed in 18.99 lbs and finished in 5th place (of course they paid 4!).
All in all it was a good day on the water.
Until next time.
RBK
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