02-01-2014, 10:32 PM
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Nice job, and I am jealous. 
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02-01-2014, 11:22 PM
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Nice catch Mike! Hopefully I can pick that one back up on the 22nd.
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02-02-2014, 09:15 AM
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Mike real nice fish and great report thank you for sharing it..................woody
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02-02-2014, 10:58 AM
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Beauty!
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02-02-2014, 12:32 PM
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He went under twice, but he was pretty wore out already. Upon hookset, he ran about a quarter mile towards the steam plant. Lol
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Nice fish! Can you imagine how many stripers are sitting up near the boils unmolested by fishermen? It must be crazy.
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02-02-2014, 12:41 PM
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Nice fish! Can you imagine how many stripers are sitting up near the boils unmolested by fishermen? It must be crazy.
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Judging by the breaking fish that direction that I have been seeing..... all the big ones are up there. In the last few trips have seen some absolute giant blowups.
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02-02-2014, 04:11 PM
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Nice fish! Can you imagine how many stripers are sitting up near the boils unmolested by fishermen? It must be crazy.
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I bet there are 30-50 pounders just chillin up there'
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02-02-2014, 05:24 PM
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When I went a few weeks ago I saw some enormous blowups wayyyy back in there out of casting reach. I can't imagine those were 10 pounders. Great catch Mike, still waiting on another chance to try it again but I sure hope to do it before Winter ends!
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02-02-2014, 10:10 PM
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Congratulations on your personal best from the yak Mike. Sarah sent you the video, so if it doesn't work I'll save it on a thumb drive and get it to you that way.
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02-02-2014, 10:43 PM
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kinda makes ya wanna buy one of those 16-18ft surf rods, big, heavy topwater plug and give that bad boy a toss DEEP down the canal!
hmmmm, i suppose that would work actually if you had a stable boat to be able to load the rod and shift your weight.......hmmmmmmm....
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02-03-2014, 01:34 AM
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kinda makes ya wanna buy one of those 16-18ft surf rods, big, heavy topwater plug and give that bad boy a toss DEEP down the canal!
hmmmm, i suppose that would work actually if you had a stable boat to be able to load the rod and shift your weight.......hmmmmmmm....
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or an RC boat…...
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02-03-2014, 08:15 AM
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kinda makes ya wanna buy one of those 16-18ft surf rods, big, heavy topwater plug and give that bad boy a toss DEEP down the canal!
hmmmm, i suppose that would work actually if you had a stable boat to be able to load the rod and shift your weight.......hmmmmmmm....
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It can be done from a kayak...
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02-03-2014, 09:08 AM
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I bet there are 30-50 pounders just chillin up there'
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Do you think though that they're up there because boats aren't? If/when they remove the barrier, and the boats go back up there, won't they just blow the fish back out or was this the same pattern before the barrier?
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02-03-2014, 09:23 AM
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Do you think though that they're up there because boats aren't? If/when they remove the barrier, and the boats go back up there, won't they just blow the fish back out or was this the same pattern before the barrier?
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Yes. The fish AND bait aren't being bothered by boat traffic, resulting in the existing pattern. I'm pretty sure this topwater feeding pattern will die when boats are able to move in freely.
As for where the fish will go, they'll probably hold in deeper water in the GSP channel, and some will move out to the river. The fish will still feed, but may not become active until the area calms down each day. I'm sure they are different groups of fish doing different things even now, but the hot bite that everyone is cashing in on will be the first to suffer when the barrier is gone.
Another key factor to the current bite is the fact that TN is having a cold winter. The last few winters have been pretty mild, so the warm-water refuge for the bait was not as necessary...that equates to less bait in the GSP, and therefore less predators. I'm curious to see how the fishing will change once the barrier is removed, and, to be honest, I'm not going to be upset if it stays indefinitely.
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02-03-2014, 09:53 AM
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i woulndt be surprised if it stays up indefinately!
i have nothing to base that off of, but i doubt the barrier removal will be high priority on the list of "to-do's" once the TVA gets done doing whatever work they are doing in there.
Im kinda torn on that! The selfish part of me imagines a cold winter morning chugging up that canal all alone into striper heaven with no other boats to be seen, yet in reality, i know it would NEVER play out like that! LOL.
they are gonna have to hire a bouncer to stay at the mouth of that place if the barrier ever comes down. LOL...nobody new in until somebody comes out! lol
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