MNfisher
11-03-2013, 06:12 PM
Went to the Center Hill Dam yesterday. One of my wifes best friends recently got engaged to a guy who lived in London. He moved to TN and has an interest in fishing. I have taken him to a few shore spots and caught bluegill, but yesterday i took him out in my small boat below the dam. He had an absolute blast! He ended up catching around 15 trout and he was so excited at each catch! We had a great day. I lost count around the mid thirties, so I know we hit 50 or better. All stocker sized rainbows and brooks except i did get a surprise and caught a 17" bow on a trout mag! All fish were caught twitching a bison colored Trout mag with a split shot about a foot above it. The trout were tearing it up! Threw jerbaits at sunset and picked up a 18 1/2" walleye. I cleaned it and sent it home with James so he could experience fresh walleye! Nice to run into tcintn while there! Always good to chat with ya!
Hit JPP dam once last week and again this afternoon. I have caught a total of 8 very nice white bass, 2 bluegill and a sauger between the 2 trips. Missed a few bites each trip also. The whites have been 14-15" fish, but skinny, must be all males. One was a little guy, the rest were very large. Whites came on a 3/8 oz kastmaster spoon in current breaks, bluegill on TM's in slack water, and the 14" sauger came on a TM at the edge of the current.
There isn't many fish up there at this time, but if you really pound the areas that look like they should hold fish(current breaks, eddies, structure) you will eventually come up with some good fish.
best catch of the night, i was tossing a big swimbait for striper, snagged the bottom. Was trying to break off and It was slowly coming to me. After about a 5 minute struggle, pulled in an old rotten, torm cast net. Tangled in the cast net was 12 lures! I attached a pic of the ones i could get out! It was hilarious!
Hit JPP dam once last week and again this afternoon. I have caught a total of 8 very nice white bass, 2 bluegill and a sauger between the 2 trips. Missed a few bites each trip also. The whites have been 14-15" fish, but skinny, must be all males. One was a little guy, the rest were very large. Whites came on a 3/8 oz kastmaster spoon in current breaks, bluegill on TM's in slack water, and the 14" sauger came on a TM at the edge of the current.
There isn't many fish up there at this time, but if you really pound the areas that look like they should hold fish(current breaks, eddies, structure) you will eventually come up with some good fish.
best catch of the night, i was tossing a big swimbait for striper, snagged the bottom. Was trying to break off and It was slowly coming to me. After about a 5 minute struggle, pulled in an old rotten, torm cast net. Tangled in the cast net was 12 lures! I attached a pic of the ones i could get out! It was hilarious!