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browntrout
10-18-2012, 01:43 PM
Well enough talked about people being banned....lets talk some fishing. Where is your favorite place to fish in November and what tactic is your favorite for this time of year? I really like Centerhill this time of year trying to catch the bass in the "jumps" as the shad start to school together and the water temperature starts to drop. Any stick bait, spoon, or fluke is good. Love it when they are just boiling the water when they are chasing the shad. Whenever you catch a bass they are puking up shad where they are gorging themselves on them.

Whats your favorite?

Roy

punchs
10-18-2012, 02:11 PM
Cumberland river in Clarksville

There is a bridge just down river from the new marina that gathers shad and bass like crazy when the water temps drop. I'm currently exploring the Harpeth and trying my luck for the stripers.

Alphahawk
10-18-2012, 02:23 PM
Well I have been waiting for the schools of large mouth to show up on a flat at Pickwick.....but so far nothing. Hope they do as one can have 70 to 100 fish days of 2 to 7 pound large mouth. This may be one year they just don't move in. But when they do it sure is fun.


Regards

Travis C.
10-18-2012, 02:38 PM
Once first full moon in October hits and campgrounds close, I have trout on the brain until about March.

Alphahawk
10-18-2012, 02:46 PM
Once first full moon in October hits and campgrounds close, I have trout on the brain until about March.

Me also...but I have to hitch a ride with browntrout to get at them...LOL


Regards

browntrout
10-19-2012, 10:52 AM
Me also...but I have to hitch a ride with browntrout to get at them...LOL


Regards

It would really help if the Corps of Engineers would cooperate. Unlike others I would like for them to generate on the weekends but looks like that isnt going to happen. I need some fall rains where they will generate all weekend also. Guess I will go explore below Wheeler dam to see about fishing for smallmouths. Used to go down there years ago. Refresh myself with the area and see if the bait shop where I used to buy minnows is still there.

Roy

txnative
10-19-2012, 12:14 PM
I wish the corps had the available rain to make generating and spilling a steady, round-the-clock affair on the caney, but I am in the minority with that wish. The fish I target do better in the spillway flows on every river I fish, it seems.


Chris

MNfisher
10-19-2012, 12:30 PM
I am one of the few that agree with you Chris!

browntrout
10-19-2012, 01:06 PM
I would love it if they ran at least 1 generator on the Caney at all times. But unfortunately I realize its not always about me. (Just dont tell my wife that I said that)

Roy

MNfisher
10-19-2012, 01:17 PM
Haha! Nice Roy!

Travis C.
10-19-2012, 01:26 PM
I wish TK would ban all three of you for saying such horrible things. :p

txnative
10-19-2012, 01:44 PM
Travis, I promise I will help you remove the taste of sour grapes by next summer. One good day and you'll be looking for the next fix.

Chris

browntrout
10-19-2012, 01:45 PM
I wish TK would ban all three of you for saying such horrible things. :p

Sorry Travis I was dreaming there for a moment. Just thinking of the perfect life with full time flow on the Caney and brown trout everywhere. If I can ever get you to come with me when its good I will convert you!!!!

Travis C.
10-19-2012, 02:00 PM
Travis, I promise I will help you remove the taste of sour grapes by next summer. One good day and you'll be looking for the next fix.

Chris

All I got to say is.....tooth fairy, santa claus and morone saxatilis all have one thing in common. ;)

Travis C.
10-19-2012, 02:02 PM
Sorry Travis I was dreaming there for a moment. Just thinking of the perfect life with full time flow on the Caney and brown trout everywhere. If I can ever get you to come with me when its good I will convert you!!!!

If I had my outboard on my boat already then it wouldn't be a tough sell. Can't row 3500cfs unless I eats me spinach.

I love the big brownies and bows. Just have to take how I can get to them right now.

browntrout
10-19-2012, 02:09 PM
If I had my outboard on my boat already then it wouldn't be a tough sell. Can't row 3500cfs unless I eats me spinach.

I love the big brownies and bows. Just have to take how I can get to them right now.

It gets real good at about 11-13,000 cfs. That is when Alphahawk and I had the best luck that we have ever had. Those big browns and rainbows are so active and feeding so much when the water is rolling that much. I think that they have just a few seconds to look at a bait (or lure) and that is why you catch so many of them. We had some that I know would go in the 20's to 30's (pounds not inches) follow our baits all the way back to the boat. Of course they didnt get big by being dumb. I just figure if I keep putting in the time i will connect with one of those hawgs one day.

Roy

txnative
10-19-2012, 02:10 PM
All I got to say is.....tooth fairy, santa claus and morone saxatilis all have one thing in common. ;)

They make me happy ???

And I will verify browntrout's statement about the size of the browns he has seen. I saw a brown pushing 36" easy at happy hollow. Water had started rising, so me and my 5 wt were leaving when I saw that toad cruising towards me. My thoughts were 1: can I get him to eat a sz 12 wooly bugger ? And 2: how long would my 5 wt remain unbroken if I did ?


Chris

Pookie
10-19-2012, 02:31 PM
It would really help if the Corps of Engineers would cooperate. Unlike others I would like for them to generate on the weekends but looks like that isnt going to happen. I need some fall rains where they will generate all weekend also. Guess I will go explore below Wheeler dam to see about fishing for smallmouths. Used to go down there years ago. Refresh myself with the area and see if the bait shop where I used to buy minnows is still there.

Roy

If you're talking about Fisherman's Resort, the bait shop closed and the ramp is marked Private No Trespassing. The bait shop moved up the road and is now known as The Dam Store.

I'm waiting on a favorable report from there on the stripe (white bass). I have loaded the boat at the right time of year fishing up close to the spill gates. Be sure to wear that life jacket though.

browntrout
10-19-2012, 02:31 PM
They make me happy ???

My thoughts were 1: can I get him to eat a sz 12 wooly bugger ? And 2: how long would my 5 wt remain unbroken if I did ?


Chris

Talking to a lot of the guides in Arkansas if you get one of those big ones on you have to chase them with your motor. Most of the time they say that they head down the river and you better be going with them. Probably about like hooking into a rockfish I would guess.

Roy

txnative
10-19-2012, 02:54 PM
If I hook into a big trout while on my boat, I'll be going where the fish wants. I fish out of a kayak. I made the (bad) decision to tangle with the caney's stripers in it and went for a ride before losing what would have been my biggest striper, and as much as I praise a striper's strength, a trout has better endurance and fights way more unpredictably. Stripers run in straight lines and tend to pull away from you, trout zigzag, jump, dive, run towards you, then go away just as fast. Plus, when you have them boat side, the bigger ones run out and do the whole thing over again.


Chris

Travis C.
10-19-2012, 03:04 PM
Of the few massive fish I have heard being caught there, the two biggest were: 1) off the bank during generation with a rooster tail and like 6lb test. That fish was over 18lbs. 2) was on a fly rod and out of a boat fishing shad pattern during generation. That fish was I believe around the same mark if not a little bigger.

Both were browns but there are some stud rainbows in there as well.

I have been told those really big fish run the schools of gizzard shad during generation just like a striper would. That is a completely different ball game all togther that the avg weekend angler up there never is equipped to play.

txnative
10-19-2012, 03:16 PM
I'm planning on fishing below cen hill during generation this winter, if you want to use my extra fishing sled, Travis. You have all the gear you need and the techniques we use have worked well for browns and 'bows up to 8 lbs.


Chris

Travis C.
10-19-2012, 03:34 PM
I'm planning on fishing below cen hill during generation this winter, if you want to use my extra fishing sled, Travis. You have all the gear you need and the techniques we use have worked well for browns and 'bows up to 8 lbs.


Chris

I hope I can get time to use the extra sled there, a deep clear place and a shallow warm place this winter.

MNfisher
10-19-2012, 06:23 PM
I hope I can get time to use the extra sled there, a deep clear place and a shallow warm place this winter.

I would also like to take my sled both those places this winter:)

MNfisher
10-19-2012, 06:26 PM
All I got to say is.....tooth fairy, santa claus and morone saxatilis all have one thing in common. ;)

Yeah they do, you dream about all them day and night, absolutely know they exist, to some they are just a mystery, not always get to see them, sometimes never, but you know they are there, but when you do finally get a sighting, it is like heaven on earth...2 might just be when your a child....but the third...forever!

MNfisher
10-19-2012, 06:29 PM
And I will verify browntrout's statement about the size of the browns he has seen. I saw a brown pushing 36" easy at happy hollow.

Chris

I saw one between Happy and the dam earlier this summer that was also pushing 3 ft. Thought it was a big buffalo until I floated my yak right over the top of her and I saw the spots and square tail. I was completely mind blown! I didn't know there were trout like that in there. I thought 10-15 pounds were the biggest in the Caney!

txnative
10-19-2012, 07:27 PM
I would also like to take my sled both those places this winter:)

I'll let you know the dates and give you the details.


Chris

MNfisher
10-19-2012, 08:07 PM
I'll let you know the dates and give you the details.


Chris

Looking forward to capturing some images in the yaks!

Travis C.
10-19-2012, 08:49 PM
Yeah they do, you dream about all them day and night, absolutely know they exist, to some they are just a mystery, not always get to see them, sometimes never, but you know they are there, but when you do finally get a sighting, it is like heaven on earth...2 might just be when your a child....but the third...forever!

I understand the addiction... but I am to them as garlic to a vampire. :D

You better get to sleep. You have crappie to catch in a few hours.

MNfisher
10-19-2012, 09:23 PM
i understand the addiction... But i am to them as garlic to a vampire. :d

you better get to sleep. You have crappie to catch in a few hours.

lol!

Alphahawk
10-19-2012, 09:58 PM
When I first really got into trout fishing a few years back I was hitting the Caney 5 days a week from late September through early December. Even though they were generating around the clock I would fish at the boat ramp by the camp ground...and at the slew at Happy Hollow. I had it bad...I was becoming a trout bum. I even wrecked my car where 840 meets I40 trying to get up there early one morning. Pulled over and tied the front air dam back on to the car and went on up and fished and then turned the car in the next day for repair and used the rental to go back and fourth until my vehicle was repaired. I caught a bunch of trout during that time. I was at Happy and was using a very thin and very light flutter spoon sold by Trout Magnet. A huge Brown hit it and I had it to the ramp and it was every bit of 15 pounds. Then I thought the line broke...it had not broke but the lure I was using was never designed to land fish that size.....as I was later told. The lure hit me in the chest....the pop rivet that held the hook to the lure had popped loose. I had the lure still tied but minus the hook...LOL. I used to lay on my belly and watch huge Browns swim up into that slew. I would also be fishing over at the boat ramp by the camp ground and on my way home stop at at Happy and watch the Browns do that thing they do when they come straight up out of the water like a Trident missile. I would stay there until dark every night watching this during the late Fall when they go through that. Having fished the Red Sea and Persian Gulf for 21 years I have seen some big fish. I have seen lots of Browns up there in the 20 pound range. I don't think the general fishing population really knows just how big those fish are in there. I have told browntrout one day one of those things is not going to just follow our lures but hit it....then the battle will be on...LOL.


Regards