I love this time of year when the steam is rising off the water in the morning, the humidity is (almost) gone and the air is crisp. The weather was so nice today, I wouldn’t have minded getting skunked – which I almost did, by the way, because I wanted to break the spinnerbait curse and spent the first hour throwing nothing but a spinnerbait with nothing to show for it. So the curse is still intact - I have not caught a darned fish on a spinnerbait since I got to TN 2 years ago and that lure used to be one of my weapons of choice. Maybe I'm throwing the wrong color? By the time I put the spinnerbait down, the sun was starting to hit the water and the bites were far and few between. Maybe if I spent more time fishing and less time gawking at the scenery I’d catch a few more
All fish today were caught on a black, 4" Senko, fished weightless (Texas-rigged). The water temp is still right around 73...I got no bites in any area where the sun was hitting the water, only in shaded spots, and the fish were hugging the rocks.
BTW, can someone tell me when the white bass start running again? I thought I read that they run the river once in the spring and once in the fall. Thanks!
Cumberland River (Clarksville area) 11 Oct 2013
