05-09-2011, 09:00 AM
Happy Mother&#39;s Day to all you Moms that may be reading this report. Hope this is the best you ever had. Now on to the report.<br /><br />Dr Phillip Gawthrop and I hit the Riverpark this AM early. First ones on the water. We ran up to the dam to try our luck at Rockfish, but they weren&#39;t doing much today. I did catch one little one and you guys will have to help me identify what I believe to be a Cherokee bass (a white bass/Striped bass hybrid). I don&#39;t know for sure exactly what it is. The fish was well over 5 lbs and between 21 and 22 inches long. Fought like a demon even at the end of the run just before coming to net. If that was a white bass, then it tops my PB white bass by a couple of lbs. I have caught many hybrids up below Watts Bar and didn&#39;t have any trouble identifying them, but this one I&#39;m not sure about. While laying the fish out to measure and seeing that it was between 21 and 22 inches, the fish leaped out of the boat and escaped before I could put the scales on it. emoBang emoBang emoBang I had Dr Phil kick me swiftly in the seat of the pants.<br /><br />We ended up the day with 8 different species of fish caught. One drum (alabama smallmouth) emoBig
, one blue catfish, 1 goggle eye, 33 spotted bass, 2 smallmouth bass, one striper, one hybrid, and 7 white bass. We left the fish biting like mad. Doc had a soccer game to attend. Some people just don&#39;t have priorities set right. <br /><br />Labman and Nautica man joined us at the dam early on and stayed up there after we left to run downriver to spot fish. I don&#39;t know how they did. Hopefully they did better up there than we did. <br /><br />We caught our fish on 1/8 oz jigheads with plastic trailers at the dam, and then tiny flukes glued on 1/16 oz jigs downriver for spotted bass. A very fun morning and another day of discovery. The Lord was good to us today. emoBig emoGeezer
, one blue catfish, 1 goggle eye, 33 spotted bass, 2 smallmouth bass, one striper, one hybrid, and 7 white bass. We left the fish biting like mad. Doc had a soccer game to attend. Some people just don&#39;t have priorities set right. <br /><br />Labman and Nautica man joined us at the dam early on and stayed up there after we left to run downriver to spot fish. I don&#39;t know how they did. Hopefully they did better up there than we did. <br /><br />We caught our fish on 1/8 oz jigheads with plastic trailers at the dam, and then tiny flukes glued on 1/16 oz jigs downriver for spotted bass. A very fun morning and another day of discovery. The Lord was good to us today. emoBig emoGeezer