Went to the Center Hill Dam yesterday. One of my wifes best friends recently got engaged to a guy who lived in London. He moved to TN and has an interest in fishing. I have taken him to a few shore spots and caught bluegill, but yesterday i took him out in my small boat below the dam. He had an absolute blast! He ended up catching around 15 trout and he was so excited at each catch! We had a great day. I lost count around the mid thirties, so I know we hit 50 or better. All stocker sized rainbows and brooks except i did get a surprise and caught a 17" bow on a trout mag! All fish were caught twitching a bison colored Trout mag with a split shot about a foot above it. The trout were tearing it up! Threw jerbaits at sunset and picked up a 18 1/2" walleye. I cleaned it and sent it home with James so he could experience fresh walleye! Nice to run into tcintn while there! Always good to chat with ya!
Hit JPP dam once last week and again this afternoon. I have caught a total of 8 very nice white bass, 2 bluegill and a sauger between the 2 trips. Missed a few bites each trip also. The whites have been 14-15" fish, but skinny, must be all males. One was a little guy, the rest were very large. Whites came on a 3/8 oz kastmaster spoon in current breaks, bluegill on TM's in slack water, and the 14" sauger came on a TM at the edge of the current.
There isn't many fish up there at this time, but if you really pound the areas that look like they should hold fish(current breaks, eddies, structure) you will eventually come up with some good fish.
best catch of the night, i was tossing a big swimbait for striper, snagged the bottom. Was trying to break off and It was slowly coming to me. After about a 5 minute struggle, pulled in an old rotten, torm cast net. Tangled in the cast net was 12 lures! I attached a pic of the ones i could get out! It was hilarious!
Nice bunch of fish. Really nice rainbow and walleye. On one of your pics of the white bass easy to see part of the reason they fight so good is that tail is wide as your jacket sleeve. Good shot.
Nice bunch of fish. Really nice rainbow and walleye. On one of your pics of the white bass easy to see part of the reason they fight so good is that tail is wide as your jacket sleeve. Good shot.
Regards
Thanks Alpha! The reason I took the shot that way was to show how long they were, it stretched from my fingertips to my elbow. But way to point out how wide the tail is!
Thanks Alpha! The reason I took the shot that way was to show how long they were, it stretched from my fingertips to my elbow. But way to point out how wide the tail is!
Those probably are males. I'm hoping to get back to Pickwick to get into some of those females again but the gen schedule is not in my favor at the moment....so will continue with crappie.
I didn't, the only sight of Browns was I saw a big one jump in the air at sunset and one cruised by the boat before sunset. Otherwise the browns were nonexistent!
Thanks Alpha! The reason I took the shot that way was to show how long they were, it stretched from my fingertips to my elbow. But way to point out how wide the tail is!
Females usually have the wider tails. Guess fish are different.
Nice meeting you yesterday at JPP. Glad you had better luck than me and my boys.
Thanks for tips on what you were throwing.
We fished the riprap on the lake a bit, no luck, then went home to M'boro and my middle kid wound up with a decent crappie, so at least we weren't skunked.
Can you reasonably fish the pond in a kayak even with the sluice on?
Can you reasonably fish the pond in a kayak even with the sluice on?
Billy
Nice meeting you too! You can fish the pond in a kayak with the sluice pushing the 250 minimum. You absolutely cannot fish it with the sluice running with the generators when it's pushing 1750 cfs. Very dangerous and rough.
Center Hill Dam 11/2/13 and Percy Dam
