Below Cheatham

[Shoe man]

Originally Posted by jaystaler88

At what point do the white bass start getting active? What are patterns for them? I've been below Cheatham a little farther down river where it turns into a straightaway in January. We were focusing on eddies off of the main river and throwing 5/8 oz jig heads with chartreause curly tail. caught a bunch of em

I've been fishing the whites down there for almost 30 yrs. They can start as early as mid November but usually it gets good around Christmas and continues thru mid April. I have thrown the same basic 1/8 ounce tube jig as long as I've been fishing down there. It takes a lot of patience to fish that small jig in deep water but it's killer when they are shallow. Some days they hit a crankbait, other days I use a scrounger-head with a very small swim bait but I always start with the tube jig and 6 or 8lb test. Sometimes I go as small as 4lb.

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[Shoe man]

Originally Posted by jaystaler88

At what point do the white bass start getting active? What are patterns for them? I've been below Cheatham a little farther down river where it turns into a straightaway in January. We were focusing on eddies off of the main river and throwing 5/8 oz jig heads with chartreause curly tail. caught a bunch of em

I forgot to mention that eddies on the main river are where they congregate so you are doing the right thing. I catch most of them on mud banks versus rock. When the water gets real high the creeks are often very good.

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[jaystaler88]

Do you ever notice them ABOVE Cheatham dam? Or is it mostly below the dam

[Shoe man]

Originally Posted by jaystaler88

Do you ever notice them ABOVE Cheatham dam? Or is it mostly below the dam

We catch some white bass, hybrids, and stripers above the dam on the river but they are accidents caught while bass fishing.

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