05-08-2011, 09:00 AM
Well, today I fished from Soddy Creek up to Sale Creek. My 5/5 post covered Chester Frost to Soddy Creek. Results were about the same. I caught about 30 black crappie, two-thirds of which were keepers. A couple of white bass and a small LM also hit the BG shads I was using. Almost all fish came from shooting docks, a few from vertical structure. I used all kinds of colors. Flow was 18K cfs and water temps were 64-66. It got pretty windy and choppy on the main part of the lake. I kept 10 fish up to 13 in., that&#39;ll do my family for a while. <br /><br />Funny story, when I wanted to take out, a gentleman was fishing the private ramp I wanted to use. I went around him, tied up to the dock and apologized to him for getting in front of him, but it was time for me to take out and go home. He said, no problem. About that time what looked to be about a 4 lb. LM jumped near my boat. He had hooked it where I had just gone around him. I said, well I didn&#39;&#39;t run the fish off, anyway. He netted the fish and kept right on chunking his jig.