10-12-2017, 09:00 AM
This is kind of an old report but will give a little bit of information about Old Hickory lake and a few trips I had with a lady Professional Bass Angler Janet Parker.<br /> I have been a bass angler for many years and I have enjoyed<br />being a competitor in tournaments all over the south east<br />over the years but my favorite lake has always been Old Hickory<br />and I consider it my home lake. I quit competing in 2011 as<br />my health just would no longer allow it. I do want to share 1<br />experience with folks here that some may find interesting. I<br />have never claimed to be a guide and have never told anyone<br />that I am one. Some years back around 2012 I think I got a <br />phone call from a young lady and she asked me if I would do<br />a guide trip for her. I told her I was not a guide and she said<br />I know but you are a bass fisherman and you come highly<br />recomended as the person I need to learn about Old Hickory<br />according to everyone I have spoke to around here. She said <br />I promise I will pay you well. I told her to give me a few minutes <br />and I would call her back and I ask her name and she said Janet<br />Parker and I compete in the WBA.<br /> I called her back and told her to meet me at Bull Creek Boat ramp <br />in the morning about 6AM. She was there when I arrived. I had 3 rods<br />and a Walmart bag of assorted baits. No mistaking where she was.<br />He wrapped boat stood out in the rest of the boats. The trip began<br />witha run of about a 1/2 mile up in the river to a ledge I knew was<br />holding some fish. She got up front and I got on the back of the boat<br />and she watched to see what rod I picked up and she picked up a rod<br />witha similar bait. I have a Stick bait tied on and she had a Senko and<br />we both casted in same direction. I stuck a 3 lb fish boated it and turned<br />it loose. In 5 casts I had caught 4 fish and she had not got a bite. Finally<br />she turned to me and ask me what kind of bait I was using and I said<br />one of mine. She ask me if she could borrow one and I said no but I will<br />give you a couple. I pitched few to the front deck and told her she <br />would have to add a 3/16th bullet weight because my baits won&#39;t sink<br />on their own so she did and on her first cast after watching how I fished<br />the bait she caught one about 4 lbs.<br />That 1st day we caught probably 30 fish with best 5 going 15 to 18 pounds.<br />By the end of the day I was about out of baits because all she wanted to use<br />was mine. She did break off 2 fish that were big but she had not retied <br />either after catching a few fish. I will try and post a few pictures of her fish<br />but not sure if I know how to do it here. I have a bunch more but not going to use<br />anmore bandwith to post them.<br />The fish in my avatar is one that was taken on one of those days. If I am over stepping my bounds with my posts I hope the moderators will tell me please.