Chick 1-24-2012

Had a perfect weather day to look for crappie and caught a few, mostly small, and a 4lb 6 oz smallmouth. Also probably 50 lb of drum. All fish on small crappie jigs.

Chickamauga 10-24-2011

Roy and I had a little time to get out and look for bass and crappie. Only had two bass on and only one in the boat along with five 12" crappie. Bluebird skies and hardly any wind. Fish are moving up though.

Sheboygan, Wisconsin Lake Michigan July 2011

Fished in the great state of Wisconsin on Lake Michigan. Caught a total of 150lbs of Salmon and Trout. Here are some pics of the fish the boys and I got....Pictured are some nice Rainbows, Coho, and a Brown Trout. All fish caught on downriggers and planar boards.

Chick bass 7-6-2011 Howie

Howie with a 7lb 9oz LM, his largest this year on Chickamauga. Caught on dropshot in deep water. Depth and speed!

June 24 Bass

Took the kids out fishing today and caught a few. Went out for 3.5 hours and caught 7 fish on the troll. Most were largemouth and these were the biggest 3. Water temp. was 78F with cloudy skies. Fish were caught at around 20 ft. deep. This was the first time the boys held a fish. They felt the pressure when their 5 year old sister grabbed a hold of hers!

6/16/11 and Memorial Day Bass

A little late on this post. Fished Memorial day with 3 fisherman out of the back of the boat. Ended up with an assortment of 16 different fish on the troll in about 20 feet of water. Caught largemouth, spots, catfish, whitebass, and drum. Biggest bass was around 16.5 inches. Fish did not start to move until about 10:30am, then we were busy.


Went to Nickajack last night and fished it for the first time in several years. Launched out of Marion County park. Fished with David M. and ended up catching 4 fish. A slow night with the full moon upon us. Marked lots of fish on the main lake and looks to be a loaded lake with quality fish.

Chick Bass 6-8-2011

Bass are moving good on Chickamauga. Twenty+ bass, 1.5 to 3.5 lb in a late afternoon trip. Most on the cast with a new lure and 2-3 on the troll. Weather and water stable. Not CBA fish, but really fun. Women seem to catch bigger fish, huh!

Sullivans ramp bass 5/30/2011

Avoiding Chickamauga Lake on a holiday weekend, we tried Nickajack. Best fish was 20", but only 3lb 4oz. Deb caught it on the 1/8 oz jig in 3-5 fow. We caught 3 more 1.5 to 2lb fish on pw, all in the shallows with new grass and current.

December Bass

David Moore with 7.5 lb bass from Chickamauga. Great fish!

Hiwassee crappie 11-22-10

Roy and DC with a limit of crappie before the wind blew them off the lake. Small jigs casting and trolling.

Chick crappie 11-17-2010

Went back to look for crappie after all the rain and found these at 15-20 feet in the lower lake. All caught on small jigs casting to breaks on a structure situation. Water temp about 60 degrees. Only had 2-3 throwbacks with these twelve fish measuring 12"-14".

Chickamauga 11-8-2010

Ken and I went to look for crappie today and found a few. But I've never caught so many different species in one day. Largemouth, spots, smallmouths, catfish, drum, bluegill, crappie, shellcracker, stripe and an eleven lb rock. Most all these fish came on crappie jigs. The big rock came on 6lb line and 15 minutes.

Watts Bar 10.5.10

Great day on the water fishing for Rockfish. This one went 17 lbs. 24 fish in all..10 smallmouth, 5 rockfish, 2 drum, 5 spotted bass, 2 whitebass.. Fished below Watts Bar Dam. Water temp. was 71F and air temp. was 71F under partly cloudy skies. The rockfish ranged from 5lbs. to 17lbs and caught with jigs in the boils. Smallmouth were caught down stream trolling crankbaits.

Chickamauga bass 8-30-10

Fishing is a little better. Had five good bass with a 4 and a 3.5lb. Casting better than trolling. Fished from 4pm Til 8pm with some clouds and some sun, but it had been cloudy for at least 36 hours. The water in the lower lake is still clear and 84 degrees.

Below Watts Bar 8/2/10

Roy and friend fished below the dam this morning and had about 20 fish. Smallmouth, drum, catfish, etc with about 7-8 smallmouth and largest 3lb 6oz. TVA is starting to increase current flow and this should help fishing. Water was 82 degrees.

Nickajack 6.14.10 Bass and Smallmouth

Caught some nice bass and smallmouth today. 10 fish in all fishing from 6-10am. 5 biggest fish went around 15lbs. Water temp. was 80F fishing below Nickajack in the tailwaters. Here are some pics with another nice 4lb smallmouth lost at the boat. The largemouth in the pic was in the 5 lb. range.

Some Bass, and a Sauger

David M. and I took his new boat out last night for some evening fishing. Fishing was slow to start and picked up as the sun set. Ended up with 7 quality fish. Biggest 5 probably went around 15 or 16lbs. Caught 6 largemouth and a nice 16" Sauger. All fish were safely released. TVA was running about 30cfs of water. 90F, Hot, Humid, and mostly cloudy skies.

Bass feeding after spawn

Fishing is picking up on the summer patterns. You can get 10-25 bass a trip fishing breaklines and the tailraces. 3lb+ smallmouth and largemouth are being caught and some still have the lower part of the tail worn and red. Current flow has been slow and casting has been good in some places.

5 lbs. Smallmouth and 5 lb. Largemouth 4.6.10

Its not often that you get a day like today. We fished crankbaits below the dam and found the smallmouth! We ended up with 18 fish total. The bag was mixed with whitebass, smallmouth, and largemouth. No big stripers, yet! We fished at 6:30-10:30 am with sunny skies and water temps. around 57F. The biggest treat of the day was catching a 5lbs largemouth bass and a 5.5lb. smallmouth. This is rare and great to share it with my dad and two boys. We fished right up by the dam in 6-10 feet. Fish were feeding early and then the movement died off. A great and blessed morning to be on the water!

4.5.10 Harrison Bay Black Crappie

Caught 19 fish total tonight. Water temps. were 72F and record heat with sunny skies and 90F outside. Half the fish were crappie and the other half were little yellow stripers. 7 of the crappie were nice sized and keepers. Fished in about 6 feet of water slow trolling jig adjacent to some deep water. JP helped by pointing us in the right direction and showing us some productive water. Thanks JP.....Jeremy

4.3.10 More Crappie

Another great day on the water for Crappie. They have started to move shallow to spawn! Water temp. was 63F and trolling was the ticket again. Picked up 20+ fish with 7 being keepers. Fish were in 8-15 feet of water while trolling 5 rods. Cloudy skies with a little rain in the forecast. Fished from 7 -11am.

Chicamauga bass 3-30-10

Got on the lake for a little while late Tuesday afternoon. The sun felt good but the lake seemed dead til 6pm. Picked up 5-6 pretty good fish on the breakline in the next hour trolling. I could not catch them casting? The only lm was 5lb and the others were pretty spots all loaded with eggs.

3.25.10 Crappie 30+

Fished with my father-in-law and 2 boys on Thursday. Ended up catching 30+ crappies with 10 being keepers over 10". Had a couple of real nice big ones in the mix. Twice had 3 rods out of the 5 we were trolling with fish hitting our jigs. Have been fishing real slow with jigs, but the Crappie are still deep. 11-15 feet has been the depth. Also fished last Saturday and had another 30+ day while keeping 11. Crappie fishing is only going to get better as the water warms up. Water temps were in the high 50's (58F).

Smallmouth below Chick 3-23-10

Ken and I fished below Chickamauga Tuesday morning and had good luck with smallmouth. The water temp was 50 degrees and 26k cfs thru the turbines was decent flow. We had 5 smallies over 4lb with the two largest 4.5lbs. They were caught at 13-14 feet on a slow troll. The next 2-4 weeks could have good smallmouth fishing below almost any TVA dam.

Tuesday 1-19-2010

Roy and I had very good weather and water conditions on the Hiwassee Tuesday. We found crappie on a 6-7 ft breakline down to a 20 ft hole and caught 22 keeper and a few too short. All were caught on the small jigs, 1/32 oz and 4-8 lb test line. Also a few bass, strip, bluegill and drum. We fished from 11am til 3pm.