Percy Priest 2/28/14

[ttitan27]

Made my first trip out in my boat since bow season started in late September. It felt great to be back on the water. Put in at Jefferson Springs and fished the Spring and Fall Creek area. I bought a bunch of trout magnet supplies late last year but never really had a chance to use them so today I strung up my light weight rod with 2lb test and tied on the 1/64 trout magnet head and used for the most part the bison colored trout magnet under a float. Fished 2.5 feet deep in water 3-8 feet deep. Water was just under 52 degrees.

I caught probably a dozen or so small white bass, 3-4 small largemouth bass, too many small bluegill to even keep up with and 25-30 crappie with 15 keepers that went home with me. All in all it was a great day and great to be fishing again! I did catch one fish on the crappie magnet early but switched over to the smaller trout magnet and that is when it got good.

[creekcrappie]

Nice job!

[Alphahawk]

Nice mess of fish.... Trout Magnet can catch some fish. Congrats.


Regards


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[XxthejuicexX]

Man, I really need to figure out how to catch fish on those C mags and T mags. I own a bunch and think I have caught 2 fish to date. Nice catch By the way.

[commdd]

great report! thanks for posting!

[tcintn]

Thanks for the report and great pictures

[MNfisher]

Nice work!

[agelesssone]

A note/question on the white bass. I have a placard identifying fish. It states that a white bass has only ONE stripe that extends to the tail. The shown fish has three. Is it possibly a hybrid?

https://www.google.com/search?q=cher...08%3B500%3B375

[Alphahawk]

Originally Posted by agelesssone

A note/question on the white bass. I have a placard identifying fish. It states that a white bass has only ONE stripe that extends to the tail. The shown fish has three. Is it possibly a hybrid?

https://www.google.com/search?q=cher...08%3B500%3B375

That is true but I always look for a single tooth patch on a white bass...the hybrid has a double tooth patch. To me sometimes the stripes can be hard to tell if they go to tail or not....but I have always been able to tell by the tooth patch. When I am white bass fishing at Pickwick and am keeping fish the last thing I do before putting the fish in the basket is check the tooth patch.






Regards

[ttitan27]

Originally Posted by agelesssone

A note/question on the white bass. I have a placard identifying fish. It states that a white bass has only ONE stripe that extends to the tail. The shown fish has three. Is it possibly a hybrid?

https://www.google.com/search?q=cher...08%3B500%3B375

Yes, it very well may have been. I really didn't pay that much attention as it was little and not something I wanted to eat LOL.

[TNBronzeback]

Great catch! crappie is on the up and up and looking good!!!

[culprit7.5]

That's great! Way to get it done.
Thanks for the report.
It's always very appreciated when you throw the water temp in there as well.