Fall and winter fishing?

[BryceTheFisherman]

Originally Posted by TNBronzeback

Well im officially on vacation effective 4:31pm on friday and wont go back till the 27th and i plan on fishing everyday till Thursday at about noon!
So if ya got some time, pack your rain gear and favorite sticks and head north to lebanon! lol.
Or we can schedule a weekend after the holidays!
park my big alumacraft at the barrier in gallatin and edge out the rest! lol

I like the dedication!

[BryceTheFisherman]

Originally Posted by StriperFan

Dude, first let me tell you how lucky you are. Watts bar has loads of big fish. Upgrade your tackle. A buddy of mine sent me a picture yesterday of a 40+" muskie he caught from Watts Bar. Said he had a couple of crappie stole by even bigger muskie over the last couple of weeks so he rigged up a drag behind with a live bluegill and "fish on"(will post pic tomorrow having trouble getting email on this computer at the moment). He also catches smallmouth, walleye, and stripers and cats and fishes year round.

I fish and catch year round, but conditions are always changing. Pay attention to bait and fish catch's and congregations and build on that for the next season.

I know! I love it here just moved here over summer and loving it. And woah, those are large. I can't do much since the water is really low, because of the dam and my boat needs tuning up so I'll try to get it running and get fishing asap, I'll make posts over spring and summer of all the huge catches I get.

[BryceTheFisherman]

Originally Posted by MidTNKayakAngler

Welcome to the forum.

I fish year round, but pick and choose my days if I can. If we have some cool weather days like upper 30's to low to mid 40's, and then we get a warming trend highs in the 50's I try to get out on the 2nd day of the warming trend if it's possible.

I will usually concentrate on the warmest water I can find, and also look for baitfish on the graph. In the winter I throw a primarily jerkbaits, Rat-L-Traps, blade baits, and jigs.

Thanks! and yeah sounds good.

[BryceTheFisherman]

Originally Posted by TNBronzeback

Watts Bar is a great fishery! when i used to live out that way, i fished Spring City area alot. Lots of Crappies and some pretty good smallmouth on some of the rocky points along channel edges.
Crappie should start wintering there very soon if they havent already. i would get mine is 30-40 ft of water suspended over brush. you get good mixed bags of fish that way too, bass, cats, ect...
Dont overlook the tail waters either, ive gotten some good reports of some very very nice walleyes and saugers being taken down there.

Just moved to Spring City actually and loving it here! and I've caught some really nice catfish too, and a few bass here and there.

[BryceTheFisherman]

Originally Posted by StriperFan

Here is that pic of the Watts Bar Muskie.

He was revived and released and swam away healthy.

What a catch, looks great, can't wait to hook one, looks like it would put out a good fight!

[kickapooh]

Originally Posted by BryceTheFisherman

I love catfishing and bass fishing, I'm located in Watts bar right on the lake

I fish Watts Bar all the time. Winter is a great time for catching striped bass and catfish if you have a boat. The mortality rate is also pretty low and most of the fish released will survive to bite another day. My brother-in-law and me love catfishing in the winter on the Bar. There have been many times that it was completely miserable out there and the wind was whipping the water into white-caps but the fish wouldn't quit biting so we couldn't bring ourselves to leave.

[BryceTheFisherman]

Originally Posted by kickapooh

I fish Watts Bar all the time. Winter is a great time for catching striped bass and catfish if you have a boat. The mortality rate is also pretty low and most of the fish released will survive to bite another day. My brother-in-law and me love catfishing in the winter on the Bar. There have been many times that it was completely miserable out there and the wind was whipping the water into white-caps but the fish wouldn't quit biting so we couldn't bring ourselves to leave.

Yeah, It's a great place to fish, especially at night.