Today on Old Hickory !!!

[Gator]

Well Brent and myself,went out today on O.H.Lake,It started off pretty slow,and I was thinking oh crap,another bum day on the water.But as the day got later,we found the fish,we ended up catching a few lg.mouth,But the bite was still pretty slow.Talked to a bunch of anglers and said they were killing the crappie,on percy and old hickory.

[MPD816]

Gator,

I was out on JPP today and let me tell you. They were NOT killing them on the lake today. Wind picked up really bad. Most of the guys coming off the lake were like me. Big Zero. We spent from 8 to 3 with only 2 bites. Using minnows and jigs. I put in at Stewart's creek and no one there didn't have any numbers. I did watch one guy put a bass in the live well but nothing real big.

[agelesssone]

MPD, were you fishing brushpiles, banging the banks or hitting the bluffs?

[MPD816]

All the above. I tried shallow all the way down to 34'. I called my buddy last night and he went up in the river and didn't have any luck either. Just nobody catching them that I talked to at the ramp.

[Alphahawk]

I wonder if the lakes are in that transition period that happen from Fall to Winter? It has been tough in the lake at Pickwick the last week also. I mean fish for 3 hours and not even get a hit.


Regards

[nomad60]

Friday, my friend and I fished the Cumberland around the Clarksville area. Before he showed up, I caught 2 drum (on 4" Senkos) (and both times I happily thought I had a bass on LOL)) and one decent bluegill on a trout magnet in the marina lagoon. Once he showed up, we went up river and fished the rock bluffs. We caught mostly dinks but he did catch one LM which was probably around 2 pounds (on a jig).
Then on Saturday we went up to Bumpus Mills around 10:30 and got to fish in those winds. We were fishing for bass and caught a few dinks in Bumpus Mills, then we headed out on the main river and went down to Neville Bay. There, we saw bass busting shad on the flats but unfortunately, my buddy's trolling motor batteries are going bad so we couldn't keep up with the action; we did manage to catch a few LM, mine came on a 1/4 oz redeye shad rattle trap ripped over the grass, and he caught his on a huge swim bait which I was giving him crap about for throwing a lure that frigging big but much to my surprise he brought a few decent ones in the boat with it. We talked to a few people and they said the action was pretty slow all around and that it was really hard fishing with that wind blowing the way it was.
That's the first time I've ever seen bass going after shad like they were in that cove and it was pretty neat to watch; too bad we couldn't keep up with them though.
One thing that was eye-opening, we were in the channel at Bumpus Mills, between the green and red markers, trolling, when we felt the motor bump into something...we looked over the side and could see several big tree stumps under the water. And there were people hauling @ss through there with their boats, who probably thought they were safe since they were in the main channel. If there's anything I've learned in the last few months is to be careful out there and not go full out in any body of water I haven't fished for a while, and to keep a good eye on the electronics. My buddy knows where a lot of the humps, flats and shallower areas are from having fished those areas for a while. It surprised me a few times to be out in the middle of some big back cove, 100 yards from shore where I thought we were in deep water and yet we were only in a few feet of water.
And I just wrote WAY more than I meant to :o

[gboyce]

Today on Old hickory I managed to catch 2 walleyes. One was about 4 lbs other made limit. Was up around the steam plant fishing. But what was really cool to see was the 2 guys i spoke to that asked me about a fish they caught. It was a talapia. (sp?) It was pretty decent sized and the guy said it was a great fight. I double checked when I got home on the internet and was definitely a Talapia. From what I have read there have been a few caught on OH

[Pookie]

Percy Priest was a wind tunnel this afternoon. 1 bream caught on a minnow. Whitecaps, wind, and shallow water was the fare of the day.