Old Hickory Dam
 

Have fished the dam a few times in the last week and had a few nice surprises! These 2 fish were caught on artificials right up be the gates. Managed 4 total flatheads the one night, the other 3 were around 4-6 pounds i would guess. The big flat bottomed out a 25 pound scale pretty quickly, probably around 30 pounds. The smallie was 21 1/4 inches! Love the unexpected catches of big fish! By the way, i have been doing quite well lately fishing and I owe it all to my beard!! Its my lucky fishing beard and it stays until fishing slows down! My wife is not too happy:D

Great catches! I love fishing the dam in the summer, never know what you will catch next.

Jim

Man, that is nice looking smallie.

Fishing the river is a blast and that is very true about never knowing what you'll catch. I seen on another forum where someone was fishing down by Manskers mouth and caught a couple bowfin around 3-5 pounds.

Nice fish and nice beard too! :)

Awesome looking smallie! Glad to see you've been having success.

Nice fish!

Great beard = Great fish...

Excuse me while I go throw my razors away...

HAHA! Nice!

What MN isn't mentioning are the GREAT BOATSMEN, Ahem!, who are putting him in position to catch and net these fish for him! Seeing as how he caught a striper on his first cast, (5 lb), another on his 2nd cast (10lb), another on his 5th cast, (13 lb) and then three catfish from 7-30 lbs in the next half hour, it is obviously how the driver is positioning the boat!

You are right, I should have mentioned that....but you still have to have accurate casts, present your bait right, put hooks in the fish, and then successfully land them! HAHA! I appreciate all the boaters who have taken me fishing! I am very blessed! Since I was once a boat owner and now am not. It hurts! So a big THANKS goes out!

Awesome citations, looks like great teamwork.

Guys with Boats
 

Yeah, those fella's that put you on the water are some fine folks. Maybe some of the best... I'm just saying they are a helluva' bunch.

Well played my friend...well played!