JPP bass today

[agelesssone]

I'm going to hit Percy Priest for bass today with a new friend from Hendersonville. Hope we can get on a pattern before we freeze out! Long Hunter here we come....

[MNfisher]

Best of luck to you!

[TNtransplant08]

Let us know how you do and what patterns work. Will probably hit long hunter tomorrow morning. Good luck!

[jad2t]

Good luck! This is the first winter I've decided to tough out the cold even though I despise it and do some fishing so I don't really know what the bass pattern is this time of year but I'd like to. Let us know what you find.

[txnative]

The pattern I've found for largemouth is to fish the GSP and want stripers...darn "green trash fish" keep getting in the way

For smallies, I head to dale hollow or Tim's ford and fish clay banks (dale) or points and bluffs (both) with shiners and tuffies.


Chris

[jad2t]

Originally Posted by txnative

The pattern I've found for largemouth is to fish the GSP and want stripers...darn "green trash fish" keep getting in the way

For smallies, I head to dale hollow or Tim's ford and fish clay banks (dale) or points and bluffs (both) with shiners and tuffies.


Chris

I fished with Merv at GSP one morning and for the last hour and a half or so decided to target bass with plastic worm and caught over a dozen to the boat, lost 4 or 5 more. Nothing over 2 pounds but still was fun. Then again, that's warm water over there so they were shallow against the bank. Anywhere else, I wouldn't be sure where to look for them.

[Travis C.]

Originally Posted by jad2t

Anywhere else, I wouldn't be sure where to look for them.

You can catch bass in Old Hickory all winter long fishing the bluffs along the main channel. Get you some shiners, float-n-fly or a jigging spoon and work vertically on the bluffs. On warm days, you can find some up on the flats adjacent to the main channel with crawfish pattern baits/soft plastics or shad raps.

[agelesssone]

Thanks for the info Travis, I'll give those tactics and baits a try. We hit JPP for 8 hours yesterday, flipping jigs/trailers and plastic 5 inch finesse worm along the bluffs, transition areas, and ledges. Got ONE bite all day! Apparently we weren't holding our mouths right or something as Mark Adams went to Normandy and pounded the spots, LM's and smallies.

[Travis C.]

Originally Posted by agelesssone

Thanks for the info Travis, I'll give those tactics and baits a try. We hit JPP for 8 hours yesterday, flipping jigs/trailers and plastic 5 inch finesse worm along the bluffs, transition areas, and ledges. Got ONE bite all day! Apparently we weren't holding our mouths right or something as Mark Adams went to Normandy and pounded the spots, LM's and smallies.

Percy can be a funny place in the winter time. If they are not running much through there a nice warm couple days during winter can warm that place surface up 8-10 degrees.

Did you guys fish the banks that get sun most of the day? What time of day did you fish?

Typically this time of year you'll do better the further away from sunrise you get. As long as there are more night hours than day the lake has longer time to cool than warm so you'll want to fish it at or around its warmests times. It's tough fishing at daylight this time of year. Just the same as its tough fishing at 5pm in late summer after a hot day with short nights to cool it.

Does that make any sense?

What's really good in winter is catch a couple days of warm weather mixed in with a warm rain and go fish the run-off on sunny banks. Murky water will be warmer and if there's rock too ...your golden.

[agelesssone]

We fished from 8 AM til 4 PM and yes we fished the sunny rocks and bluffs. Funny thing is the only bite I had all day came from the shaded side of a bluff.

The most difference we found in the water temps from Hole in the Wall below Hobson's Pike bridge to Hong Kong Island was two degrees, from 43.5 degrees to 45.5 degrees. Water depth didn't make any difference.

[TNtransplant08]

When you guys talk about "bluffs", do you mean the flat rock faces that are usually found where the main channel runs along the bank, where the depth is 30-40 feet? Is there an ideal place to fish along bluffs, at the ends, right against it, etc? Thanks!

[Travis C.]

Originally Posted by agelesssone

from 43.5 degrees to 45.5 degrees. Water depth didn't make any difference.

Wow, it's 10 degrees colder than Old Hickory at Rockland (unless they havent updated it correctly).

[TNtransplant08]

I fished out of Long Hunter today from 8:30 to noon. I had my best day so far this winter. I caught 8 LM bass, 6 of them keepers. All of the fish were caught shallow in the rocks, in 2-4 feet of water. They were caught on either a purple/chart. football with a craw trailer or a DT4 craw pattern banged on the bottom. The fish were just sucking in the bait and not moving. For a while, I thought I was getting snagged, but when I jerked the rod to pull it loose, I felt the fish move. So from than on, every time I felt a snag, I set the hook! It felt great to catch some fish, after getting skunked most of this winter!

[j19bill]

Sounds like a great day. I was planning on going out on priest today but work got in the way.

Sent from my Droid Bionic complete with typos and sarcasm.

[agelesssone]

TN glad you whacked'em today. Nice day to be on the water.