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Originally Posted by Buccaneer
fisher01 - Any idea on the water temps where you are at? No such luck for me on Old Hickory. Water temps 66 in lower lake. could not find shallow gills in any concentration.
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Shellcrackers were bedding really strong on the lower end of Old Hickory just before we got that cold snap in mid-May that coincided with the start of the cicadas. Since then, the water has been high and muddy and the temps have not been stable, and the bluegill just haven't come back to the beds. There are lots of small fish but none of the big "bull bream" and shellcrackers. I don't know if the bluegill spawn this year on the lower lake is just going to be a miss, or if they will take another shot at it with the full moon in June. Sometimes shellcracker and bluegill will spawn all the way into early July if they can't get favorable conditions earlier in the year - I always find some good shellcracker beds on the lower Stones River near the Kohl's Greenway in early summer.
Channel cats are up getting ready to spawn now. I actually caught several on a flyrod yesterday while looking for bluegill.
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