Watts Bar flooded!

[BryceTheFisherman]

We've been getting massive a mounts of rain here in Spring city and watts bar, causing the water level to up more than 2 feet. I fished for 2 days in that time, I've got tons of catfish (20-35 cats) snagged a bass lol! and about 20 or 30 stripers! The temperature has been 50-70 degrees in dec it's crazy, hooked tons of fish it's been crazy!

[StriperFan]

Are you fishing tailwaters, which can get a big run of fish when conditions are right? What technique you been using? I'm guessing some kind of live or fresh cut bait. Are you catching stripers or stripe? Pics would be cool.

[BryceTheFisherman]

Originally Posted by StriperFan

Are you fishing tailwaters, which can get a big run of fish when conditions are right? What technique you been using? I'm guessing some kind of live or fresh cut bait. Are you catching stripers or stripe? Pics would be cool.

Didn't have any pictures of the catfish, because I didn't have my phone with me. But got a picture of the bass and the stripers, got the cats on chicken liver, the bass was on a spinner. And the stripers was caught off straight fresh worms.

[white95v6]

You didn't catch any stripers(rockfish). You caught white bass(stripe). But good catch no matter the species.

[Gone fishing]

Great catch! Just a heads up if those were stripers (rockfish) that catch would be illegal.

[Heiny57]

Good catch, but make sure you don't get the wrong species mixed in.

[XxthejuicexX]

That's a big mouth on a little body! Good stringer of white bass. the large mouth needs to eat something other than your bait.

[tkwalker]

Originally Posted by Gone fishing

Great catch! Just a heads up if those were stripers (rockfish) that catch would be illegal.

There are no Stripers in that pile ... <'TK><

[agelesssone]

The "stripers" look more like yellow bass to me....especially since they were caught on worms.

[jad2t]

Yes the ones fully visible are 100% yellow bass. I could be wrong but I believe there is no size or creel limit on those. IF those were actually Striped Bass, you'd be in big trouble for posting that picture! Be careful and make sure you know what fish you're keeping. Looks like you had a fun day though, well done!

[BryceTheFisherman]

Originally Posted by Gone fishing

Great catch! Just a heads up if those were stripers (rockfish) that catch would be illegal.

We put them on a stringer so we could see how many we caught they were released.

[BryceTheFisherman]

Originally Posted by jad2t

Yes the ones fully visible are 100% yellow bass. I could be wrong but I believe there is no size or creel limit on those. IF those were actually Striped Bass, you'd be in big trouble for posting that picture! Be careful and make sure you know what fish you're keeping. Looks like you had a fun day though, well done!

Thanks! I'm not exactly sure but they where released, I hardly ever keep fish i catch.

[StriperFan]

That would have been an excellent stringer for the fryer, those yellow bass are right up there with the best of them. And those are some good sized ones.