davisjeremy1981, Chickamauga dam, Bass, 09/26/16, dad

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Put in at the dam ramp just before sun up and before we could even idle away from the ramp the entire river below the rail road bridge went into the jumps. Took us about 10min of throwing everything we had tied on to hook into a 4lb white bass that puked thread fin shad all over the boat. Quick lure swap to a 1/4 oz diamond dust rattle trap and we couldn't keep a bait in the water. We probably caught 50 fish between us over the next 30-40 min. It was a mixed bag of BIG whites in the 3-4lb range, small mouths about 20in, large mouths about 3lbs, couple of stripers, drum, and even a 10lb blue cat for good measure. We had a blast. Honestly my wrist was sore by the time they slowed down just from hanging onto the rod. There was no doubt when you got bit. Every strike was a sledge hammer bite. When the sun peaked over the damn the bite below the bridge slowed some so we went up to the power house and started throwing 5"-8" swim baits in the shadow of the damn and hooked into so bigger stripers in the 10-15 pound range and put a very nice healthy 4lb smallmouth in the boat. Once the sun cleared the dam everything seemed to go deeper to we came back under the bridge and worked the slack water at the end of the rip rap with craws and added several more largemouth to the tally, the best being a little over 4lbs. By 1130 we had had our fun and headed to the ramp with sore wrists, raw hands from lipping, and unhooking fish and big s.