Carters Lake 1/24/2007

[Louie B]

Got out today from 12-5pm w/ Adam Postelle. WE had an awesome day on Carters. The lake is 1ft from being full pool w/ water temps finally down to 47, and fishing has been very strong as of late.... The weekend Dogfights out of the DAM have been taking 15-20lbs of spots every tournament to win.

We boated 10 spots today, with 2 big spots a 4.7 and 5.6..... We took the easy way out as we caught most of our fish on live shad using 6 and 8 pound line over brush piles, lots of fun.... All fish were suspended over the brush in 20-45ft of water. We did catch a few good spots on drop-shot and a jig=head finnesse worm also but the livebait was on fire today, hard to put down.

The above pics are of the big spot of the day and a double we hooked into earlier.....

Good Fishing

LB

 

[Biofisher I]

Those are great looking spots. What is the lake record there? What time of the year is best for someone that doesn't know the lake to visit and catch a few of these fish. I know it's a deep and clear lake, which is tough fishing.

 

[Louie B]

Biofisher---

The lake record spot is 7.3, largemouth I believe is over 14.......

If you want to come to Carters and don't know a lot about it I would suggest coming in Early April, it's always been my best numbers month along w/ May.....

LB

 

[MADD DOG]

Awsome fish LB, thats the biggest spot I've seenemoEek. I bet he fought like a sherman tank. I've boated some three pound spots and that was a heck of a fight. Couldn't imagine hooking up with a football like that! good times!

 

[Fat Albert]

<font color="#6600ff">Triton LB and your partner had a good day... beautiful pictures of some beautiful fishes.....good job..thanks for the post... Like we say up here in Soddy-Daisy.... "Fellers, you done goooood"

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[TennesseeTalker]

Those are GREAT looking fish. Triton .. when you say we hooked into a double does that mean you caught both of those fish at the same time on one getup?

I'm thinking THAT would be pretty amazing.

TT

 

[Louie B]

TennTalker---

No we both hooked into a fish at the same time but on two different rods...... I hooked mine first and then as I was fighting my fish AP hooked into his....

During topwater season I've seen 2 fish caught on 1 bait at Lanier but I've not done it yet, maybe this year?

Lb

 

[rsimms]

Great fish... do you ever hear about anybody fishing the float-n-fly method down there for spots the way they fish for smallmouth on Dale Hollow? I'm heading to Dale Hollow next week... just wondering if maybe I don't need to go that far? Of course I obviously don't if I want to chase trophy spots!

 

[Louie B]

rsimms

I haven't heard of anybody using the float n fly method here, I'm sure it would work.... I've only seen it done on TV once or twice and it was on Dale Hollow it seemed like a very good way to catch fish I'd like to give it a try.

 

[rsimms]

I'm heading to Dale Hollow next weekend. You'll see a report following... good or bad.