Friday, my friend and I fished the Cumberland around the Clarksville area. Before he showed up, I caught 2 drum (on 4" Senkos) (and both times I happily thought I had a bass on LOL)) and one decent bluegill on a trout magnet in the marina lagoon. Once he showed up, we went up river and fished the rock bluffs. We caught mostly dinks but he did catch one LM which was probably around 2 pounds (on a jig).
Then on Saturday we went up to Bumpus Mills around 10:30 and got to fish in those winds. We were fishing for bass and caught a few dinks in Bumpus Mills, then we headed out on the main river and went down to Neville Bay. There, we saw bass busting shad on the flats but unfortunately, my buddy's trolling motor batteries are going bad so we couldn't keep up with the action; we did manage to catch a few LM, mine came on a 1/4 oz redeye shad rattle trap ripped over the grass, and he caught his on a huge swim bait which I was giving him crap about for throwing a lure that frigging big but much to my surprise he brought a few decent ones in the boat with it. We talked to a few people and they said the action was pretty slow all around and that it was really hard fishing with that wind blowing the way it was.
That's the first time I've ever seen bass going after shad like they were in that cove and it was pretty neat to watch; too bad we couldn't keep up with them though.
One thing that was eye-opening, we were in the channel at Bumpus Mills, between the green and red markers, trolling, when we felt the motor bump into something...we looked over the side and could see several big tree stumps under the water. And there were people hauling @ss through there with their boats, who probably thought they were safe since they were in the main channel. If there's anything I've learned in the last few months is to be careful out there and not go full out in any body of water I haven't fished for a while, and to keep a good eye on the electronics. My buddy knows where a lot of the humps, flats and shallower areas are from having fished those areas for a while. It surprised me a few times to be out in the middle of some big back cove, 100 yards from shore where I thought we were in deep water and yet we were only in a few feet of water.
And I just wrote WAY more than I meant to
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