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Old 04-24-2014, 12:49 PM
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Default Cumberland River (Clarksville area) 4/24/2014

I committed one of the cardinal sins of fishing today, which is "don't leave an area if you're catching fish." I arrived at the ramp just before dawn and started catching fish right away. A lot of small and medium ones, with a few bigger ones thrown in but they were in that marina this morning. I fished the marina lagoon for about 45 minutes, then had the great idea to run upriver in search of white bass. As you can tell by the glaring lack of white bass pics, I never did find them.

An interesting side note; as I was drifting back downstream and passed under the 13/48 bridge, I started seeing a huge school of fish on my fish finder. They were in 20-30 feet of water, suspended 2-10 feet off the bottom and I saw fish for at least 20 yards. No idea what they were; I stopped and threw a jig, a redeye shad (in case they were white bass) a 10" plastic worm, a chatterbait, and a deep-diving crank bait. Nothing. Could have been carp or gar for all I know.
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Old 04-24-2014, 01:45 PM
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Nice fish Nomad!
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Old 04-24-2014, 03:05 PM
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Nice chunky bass. What did you catch them on?
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Old 04-24-2014, 03:28 PM
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Nice fish Nomad!
Thank you sir.

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Nice chunky bass. What did you catch them on?
My go-to lure; a black, 4" Senko, Texas-rigged, fished weightless on a 3/0 EWG hook. I started out throwing a white fluke with a chartreuse tail but they wouldn't hit it and as soon as I switched to old faithful, it was game on
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Nice looking fish Nomad. Yep......don't ever leave a spot you are fishing. Ninety eight percent of the time I have done that it has newer worked out....LOL.


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Old 04-24-2014, 03:36 PM
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Nice looking fish Nomad. Yep......don't ever leave a spot you are fishing. Ninety eight percent of the time I have done that it has newer worked out....LOL.


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I think I totally missed the white bass run this year which is a bummer, they are such a blast to catch. Last year, at the end of March/beginning of April I went out and got into them pretty good in the main river. With that prolonged winter we had this year, I have no idea what's going on.
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Nice looking fish Nomad. Yep......don't ever leave a spot you are fishing. Ninety eight percent of the time I have done that it has newer worked out....LOL.


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Yep, never works out! Lol!


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Old 04-24-2014, 04:16 PM
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I think I totally missed the white bass run this year which is a bummer, they are such a blast to catch. Last year, at the end of March/beginning of April I went out and got into them pretty good in the main river. With that prolonged winter we had this year, I have no idea what's going on.

A fellow at work was catching them about a 1/4 mile below Cheatam dam at above time.

I will say he has been slaying Smallies now in that same area.
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