06-29-2018, 09:00 AM
<br />My good friend, Pat, took me fishing this morning. We had a really good morning to fish. We hit it at daylight and quit fishing by 9:30 when it began to warm up a lot. I had a great time. We caught crappie early and I took home 17. Pat&#39;s limit and two of my fish. Grin. We had the first limit in about 30 minutes of fishing. We were using 1/16 oz Bobby Garland jigs Baby Shads and the fish were about 8 feet and deeper.<br /><br />After we picked off the good keepers, and began catching short crappie on nearly every cast, we decided to move down a ways on the structure that we were fishing and picked up a couple more big crappie. Then we got into the White Bass and Largemouth and Spots. We didn&#39;t keep up with the number of White bass, but there were several and 4 Largemouth Bass, 2 Spots, and 1 big Bluegill which we donated to my fishing hero, Richard Simms of Scenic City Fishing Charters. He was near us with about 3 of his morning catfish clients, so we gave him a good catfish bait. BTW, we saw them catch a few nice Bluecats while we were fishing for Whites and Crappie.<br /><br />TVA was running about 46,000 CFS and the water was pretty clear where we were fishing. We saw a commercial fisherman running his nets about 200-300 yards away. After he finished his run, we began to see little bass floating down the current past our boat. I don&#39;t know how many that he killed, but there were several. It is a shame that so many bass are killed in gill nets. All the fish that we saw were about 10 inches long. Too bad. <br /><br />My good friend, Mike Johnston poured me some transparent plastic jigs with red/blue flake in them and they really look great. Thanks, Mike. I&#39;ll bet these will catch a bunch of crappie.