Fished a practice tournament on chickamagua today along with 4 other guys. We went to a pocket off the main river and started fishing spooks and squarebill cranks. I lost one around 12 inches and my partner caught a dink on the spook. We go down the bank and keep fishing. Then I caught one 14.5 inch FAT largemouth on a natural shad h2o express squarebill. The fish had it in its mouth so deep that I couldn't see it with its mouth closed. I decided to fish the natural shad the rest of the day because I found out what they want. It was a paper tournament so I got to count that one. I catch a 16 incher on the natural shad squarebill. We moved to another pocket and I wanted to try my shaky worm so I fished it. The second cast I felt the tap tap and I swung on him. I said he wasn't that big, but he was coming straight for the boat. A solid 4 pounder comes up and jumps 3 foot high. He shakes my worm. It took a lot of effort, but I tried to forget it and make another one bite. We went for 4 hours without a bite so we head to the back of Sale creek. We saw a ton of huge shellcracker beds and empty bass beds. I pick up my natural shad squarebill and fan cast it in the back near the culvert. Then I saw one swimming, it took me a while to realize I had a 15.25 incher hooked and coming at me. I let out a mike iaconelli scream when we netted that bass. We went back and everybody else had a bad day. It never occured to me that I would win with 3 fish and 5 something pounds. I won $9 lol. Hope they are biting better in the state tournament june 6.
I went to Percy Priest yesterday for 4 hours with a buddy. We fished out of his boat. We went to the back of stewards creek. The water visibility was less than a foot so I started chucking rattle traps and buzzbaits. I had a nice bass SMOKE my rattle trap right next to the boat but he didn't hook up. We went down the bank and I started casting a junebug shaky worm. The second cast I caught a 14 inch largemouth. I caught two more about that size and my partner caught one that still had a 4" shad in his mouth. He swung him in and the bass shook his head. When it did the fish shook a baby brush hog and a shad out of his mouth and into the water. Then we went to a ledge where it drops off from about 6 foot to about 15. The first cast I got a 13.75" on a green pumpkin shaky worm sitting on top of the hump. We fished for a few more minutes and I pulled out a zoom ol' monster worm in the plum color. First cast to the ledge I hooked a 15.5" largemouth. He stayed under the boat for about 15 seconds hitting his head on the boat the whole time. Then we finally netted him. That would be the biggest fish we caught the whole day. Then we ran to a deep point and fished it for a while. We caught 2 that were about 14 inches. After that I drove around to some great spots that I have fished from the bank to see if there was any bank access. I had two spots picked out and both they had the access blocked
Chickamauga 5/24 and JPP 5/25
