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Originally Posted by SAMBOLIE
I did not realize the water directly below the dam was that deep. I have fished from Pickwick to Wilson and outside the channel it can get shallow quickly.
Have you ever fished near the island a few miles below Pickwick. I know that was a hot spot for sauger years ago.
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It's not...I was fishing over by the lock. Yesterday it was a little over 20 feet deep. They were spilling close to 100,000 CFS. The time before the water over by the lock was at 30 feet deep. But they were spilling more water then. I have fished over by the lock when it has been over 40 feet deep with them spilling right at 200k CFS. About 5 years ago I was fishing 5 days a week up at the Caney....Center Hill. I would at many of those trips stop by and fish below Cordell Hull with my son along. We would catch dozens of sauger there almost every time we went.....it was rare to get a 15 inch fish. I am not a sauger guy but you would think you would catch some legal fish. Read an article about sauger in the TN River that flows through Alabama. The study was done in 2012 the best I remember. It stated the sauger population was non existent....no real conclusions. Talked to a friend today that saw them dump 10,000 sauger down by the Boatell a little while back...he told me about 5 to 6 inches. I know folks that catch sauger and time before last I caught a bunch of short ones down there. This is my first winter at Pickwick in 2 years but back then saw lots of good fish caught.....even I caught them and I am not a sauger fisherman. I have no clue what is up with them but soon as the wind doesn't howl I will be back down there.
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