Experienced Percy Priest Hybrid Fisherman - FishingTN.com Tennessee's Fishing and Boating Community

spottedbass · #1 03-25-2016, 08:54 AM

I am wanting to go to Priest tomorrow morning to try for the hybrids but I don't have a clue where to start. I have a 17 boat (with HDS units) with an empty back seat if one of you hybrid guys want to come along and show me the ropes. All you have to do is show up.

jad2t · #2 03-25-2016, 10:13 AM

I've been following them almost like following a duck migration. They're headed toward the lower end of the lake and toward the coves. Tomorrow morning could be tough with this cold front but tomorrow afternoon should be back to normal.

Check the 10 to 20 foot depth and watch your graph. When you find them you'll know. It won't be a dozen, it will be several dozen and they'll fill the graph. Look for shad being busted up and boils just after sunrise and just before sunset.

Travis C. · #3 03-25-2016, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by spottedbass

I am wanting to go to Priest tomorrow morning to try for the hybrids but I don't have a clue where to start. I have a 17 boat (with HDS units) with an empty back seat if one of you hybrid guys want to come along and show me the ropes. All you have to do is show up.

Hey man, I will PM you.

You catch and creek trout this year?

spottedbass · #4 03-25-2016, 11:26 AM

Yes, I did. The stocking in March had some nice sized trout in it.

Travis C. · #5 03-25-2016, 11:30 AM

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Yes, I did. The stocking in March had some nice sized trout in it.

Whats the latest you have caught them? I would like to still stash a few in the freezer.

spottedbass · #6 03-25-2016, 11:45 AM

I bet there are still some around. I usually only fish once after they stock in March. My son I had brought home 14 the Monday after they stocked on Thursday. I think a lot depends on how much the water gets up in the creek. High water and they seem to spread out quite a bit and are harder to find a concentration of them.

We caught all of ours right below the dam. We were fishing an 1/8 oz carolina rig on 6lb line with a 4 lb floro leader about 18" long. We used a egg hook and just enough power bait to cover the hook. The key to it is to cast and keep a tight line as the light carolina rig drifts with the current. We would cast into a seam and let it drift. They would hit it fairly quick. If you get no hits at the end of your drift, reel in and cast again.

spottedbass · #7 03-26-2016, 01:39 PM

Well, I made it out this morning and did not catch a single hybrid. The guys fishing on the bank down by the dam didn't stay long either. I am assuming they just weren't feeding because of the drop in water temp? This is what I had on my screen where we were fishing? What are the chances they were hybrids?

Dakota · #8 03-26-2016, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by spottedbass

Well, I made it out this morning and did not catch a single hybrid. The guys fishing on the bank down by the dam didn't stay long either. I am assuming they just weren't feeding because of the drop in water temp? This is what I had on my screen where we were fishing? What are the chances they were hybrids?

I would say yes those are hybrid. Because of the size depth and the way they are schooled up. That's a great screenshot!!

Alphahawk · #9 03-26-2016, 03:45 PM

Pretty good bet they were hybrids.

Regards

gordonc615 · #10 03-26-2016, 05:11 PM

check your pm

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StriperFan · #11 03-28-2016, 06:17 PM

I would say hybrid also. One thing I can tell from the shot is that all of those fish are stationary, or resting. Now, if they have been resting a long time they may be ready to go again and your in luck. But I usually won't stay on fish like that for long without a bite. But I would come back and check on them maybe in a couple hours if I haven't found anything else. I like to see some dark straight lines going through a seen like that and some baitfish. The dark lines would be fish moving through the sonar area. An extremely active bite sometimes appears just as multiple straight lines shooting through the sonar in different directions. When I'm trolling artificials and see that, I will usually announce "get ready, we're going to get bit" at almost 100%.

Adrian · #12 03-28-2016, 08:22 PM

Put some Shad in their Faces and then Chunk a Spoon down there and Fire 'em up! Works every time my Graph looks like that!

TNBronzeback · #13 03-28-2016, 08:58 PM

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Put some Shad in their Faces and then Chunk a Spoon down there and Fire 'em up! Works every time my Graph looks like that!

X2....rip jig a jigging blade over em.....they will turn on!

aero320 · #14 03-28-2016, 09:56 PM

Change you transducer setting to 800.

jad2t · #15 03-29-2016, 07:43 AM

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Originally Posted by StriperFan

An extremely active bite sometimes appears just as multiple straight lines shooting through the sonar in different directions. When I'm trolling artificials and see that, I will usually announce "get ready, we're going to get bit" at almost 100%.

x2 on the lines. I've learned the same thing from using my electronics and I don't have a super fancy unit like you do. 2 weekends ago I got into them hot and heavy after noticing suspended fish but not just arcs, straight lines moving around where I already knew there were shad by seeing groups on the graph, snagging them with my swimbait, and seeing them pushed to the surface. I knew it was on and boy was it on!