Lets talk some fishing!!!
 

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I am one of the few that agree with you Chris!

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

Haha! Nice Roy!

I wish TK would ban all three of you for saying such horrible things. :p

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

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!!!!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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!

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


Chris

Looking forward to capturing some images in the yaks!

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!