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Old 05-31-2016, 02:17 PM
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Was the flipping bite good early? I went today from like 9-12. What section of the lake were yall in?
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Old 05-31-2016, 07:02 PM
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Was the flipping bite good early? I went today from like 9-12. What section of the lake were yall in?
I didn't get out until about 3 and started catching them right away. It was hot and high sun. I went way up river to try and avoid as much of the party crowd as I could. Fished mid lake today with no luck. I've started fishing the wed night trny out of flippers so I've been trying to find fish close to there with no luck. The only places I feel like I can go catch a 15lb bag are way up or way down. Doesn't do me any good when I fish a 3.5 hour tourney out of flippers. Other than just staying in bull creek the whole time I don't have many options.
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I've have a tournament on old hickory Saturday and I'm still wondering what direction from flippers I'm going to head? JetSki's are out early now. Not as familiar up from flippers.


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Old 05-31-2016, 08:51 PM
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I've have a tournament on old hickory Saturday and I'm still wondering what direction from flippers I'm going to head? JetSki's are out early now. Not as familiar up from flippers.


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To me, the advantage to going up is less boat traffic/quiter water.

Downlake I like the rip rap. I had some success on Sunday rocky points at the mouth of a cut with a creek running out of it. 10-12 ft of water throwing various cranks. They weren't real aggressive bites and I lost more than I landed at the boat. If there weren't 87 runabouts/jetskis/yachts going right by me constantly, I would have anchored a slowed down with a jig or t-rig. Maybe even jerkbait depending on how froggy I was feeling at the time...
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Old 06-01-2016, 09:12 AM
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I fished the CF tournament at flippers last Saturday, down river/lake was producing the better quality fish.
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Old 06-01-2016, 10:48 AM
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I fished the CF tournament at flippers last Saturday, down river/lake was producing the better quality fish.
90% of the time this is the case. There is just a larger population of bass on the lower end.
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Old 06-01-2016, 08:26 PM
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Tex is spot on. If I had a choice, I would fish down lake every time. This time of year I only go down there at night after all the idiots are off the lake.
The upper end can be rewarding at times and 9 times out of 10 you have your choice of spots to fish.
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Old 06-01-2016, 10:10 PM
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Fished the Wednesday nighter out of flippers tonight. It's a 3 1/2 hour tournament. If you don't go right to them you are screwed. Had 3 fish for 7.30. I love tournament fishing but it can be very humbling. Took almost 16lbs to win and almost 12 to get a check. Went to where I wanted to spend the entire time and there was a boat already there. Not enough room for two boats really so I go to plan B. Also somebody there and so the scrambling and junk fishing began. Caught a few shorts but just couldn't get enough keeper bites.
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Old 06-02-2016, 06:52 AM
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Sounds like the upper end is fishing much better than the lower end right now. The 3 hour tournament on Tuesday afternoon was won with 11 lbs. and 8 lbs. took fifth place. The Tuesday tournament is out of Saundersferry.
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Old 06-02-2016, 08:30 AM
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I fished a little yesterday evening and this morning. The water where I was looked pretty good and in the place this morning fish were chasing bait pretty hard both bass as well as striper.

Caught one keeper bass yesterday and lost a 3lber this morning in the grass at the banks edge throwing into the fish busting. Caught a couple smaller ones in the mix as well.

I was using a countdown Rapala and 2lb test on a 7ft UL so I could reach the fish.
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Old 06-02-2016, 09:15 AM
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Sounds like the upper end is fishing much better than the lower end right now. The 3 hour tournament on Tuesday afternoon was won with 11 lbs. and 8 lbs. took fifth place. The Tuesday tournament is out of Saundersferry.


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Old 06-02-2016, 12:19 PM
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Fished the Wednesday nighter out of flippers tonight. It's a 3 1/2 hour tournament. If you don't go right to them you are screwed. Had 3 fish for 7.30. I love tournament fishing but it can be very humbling. Took almost 16lbs to win and almost 12 to get a check. Went to where I wanted to spend the entire time and there was a boat already there. Not enough room for two boats really so I go to plan B. Also somebody there and so the scrambling and junk fishing began. Caught a few shorts but just couldn't get enough keeper bites.


Please tell me this Is a five fish limit!?!?!
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Old 06-02-2016, 12:58 PM
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It's a 5 fish limit tournament
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Old 06-02-2016, 02:54 PM
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3 or 5 fish?


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It is a 5 fish limit. Big fish was 4.7.
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Old 06-02-2016, 06:28 PM
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It's a 5 fish limit tournament


Ok. I know a lot of the 3hr tournaments are 3 fish limits.
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