Almost midnight and...

[Travis C.]

I am heading to the lake. Should be done around lunch. Will be in the kayak so this wind should be fun. Percys the destination and my yak is blue so give me a shout if your out as well.

Hopefully a report to follow this afternoon.

[Alphahawk]

Good luck.....hope you fill the boat.

Regards


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[Reel Tune]

It was good seeing you Sunday morning. I can't believe you braved it out there that long, you sure looked tired. I stayed until around 12:30/1pm and just threw in the towel. I marked a lot of bait, but very few larger fish.

[XxthejuicexX]

You guys catch anything Sunday? I had 9 keeper crappie, 1 small largemouth and lost a keeper LM at the boat and then hung into something huge, I think it was a drum but on 6 pound test line in the back of a cove with laydowns I did not stand a chance. I do think I found a nice bedding area for bass, I might have to check it out this week.

[Reel Tune]

I didn't catch a thing. I had bluegill chasing a bait and nipping at it. I was after white bass and hybrids for Kayak Wars. Two others were with me and they didn't catch anything either. One is a fly exclusive guy and he hung something big, but it was too much for his 4WT, and busted the tippet. I know there were some yellow bass and lots of bluegill in the area, but those don't get me points so I'm not interested unless they are big bluegill.

[Travis C.]

Originally Posted by MidTNKayakAngler

It was good seeing you Sunday morning. I can't believe you braved it out there that long, you sure looked tired. I stayed until around 12:30/1pm and just threw in the towel. I marked a lot of bait, but very few larger fish.

Good seeing you guys out as well. I actually left there and went by another lake to catch 3-4 more large mouth on flukes in the grass.

I was exhausted. As last night getting in bed, I had 12 hours of sleep since Thursday morning.

Arrived at Percy by 1 am and like Jeremy said marked tons of bait. Over night there were lots of big arcs in them as well as slashes. My guess is with the full moon they fed over night. There were blow ups (not a lot but definitely more than daytime) over the night hours. Based on what I saw, the late evening thru midnight would have been better unless you had live bait.

I ended up catching 3 largemouth biggest 14", a few whites and a bunch of yellows. My little ones wanted fish so I kept a couple whites and 6 yellows that were good enough to fillet. Caught all those on a trout magnet using the 20+ mph wind in the kayak to drift them. I would troll it up the bank against the wind catch a few then turn and cast into the wind and drift back catch a few. Could have literally done this all day.

Second stop a private lake my aunt lives on. Bass were in all the pockets of grass. A fluke thrown over and skipped back through them got hammered. All were cookie cutter 14" fish but thick and one I never got of the grass was bigger not sure how much missed several more.

Fun times...

[Alphahawk]

Glad to hear you are back fishing. Always enjoyed your reports and pics.


Regards

[Travis C.]

Originally Posted by Alphahawk

Glad to hear you are back fishing. Always enjoyed your reports and pics.


Regards

Thanks Alpha.

Hopefully there will be more of them plus a video or two.

[FlipaYak]

Originally Posted by Travis C.

I ended up catching 3 largemouth biggest 14", a few whites and a bunch of yellows. My little ones wanted fish so I kept a couple whites and 6 yellows that were good enough to fillet. Caught all those on a trout magnet using the 20+ mph wind in the kayak to drift them. I would troll it up the bank against the wind catch a few then turn and cast into the wind and drift back catch a few. Could have literally done this all day.

Could you tell me a little more about drifting/trolling the TM in the wind? Did you have to go to a larger head or add weight to keep it down? I'm curious about how you did this.

[Travis C.]

Originally Posted by FlipaYak

Could you tell me a little more about drifting/trolling the TM in the wind? Did you have to go to a larger head or add weight to keep it down? I'm curious about how you did this.

The setup was the same as for "twitching method." A standard magnet head with body and I use a BB shot 6-8" above.

Basically boat control. Into the wind I paddled pretty hard or just enough so that the bait wasn't hanging the bottom instead ticking it every now and then. With that wind turning the boat helped some and letting line out every now/then helped since I have no chute.