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jason

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We launched at Booker T. around 8am and decided to stay close for a bit in case the weather took a turn for the worse. The big cove inside the park looked promising so we started in there with traps and lizards. After two hours in the cove and only three fish to show for it, we headed back out. As we we came out, I cast a Speed Trap I had just tied on to the windblown rip-rap and landed a keeper LM. My second cast yielded a 3lb 7oz spot
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. We spent the rest of the afternoon within sight of the ramp, fishing the rip-rap and the loooong point right outside the park. We fished each section of it first with the Speed Traps and then worked it over again with Zoom Lil' Critter Craws. At 2pm we called it a day with 19 fish, 7 of which were keepers and best 5 at a little over 11lbs.   
 
RE: Chick/Bass/4-7

Good going Jason. Glad to finally see a Booker T report.

Did you know that there is a channel right off that point and then a shallow bar a little further out?. Once upon a time, long, long ago when there was grass in Chichamauga, I fished that bar heavy. The bar starts up river at Harrison Bluffs and extends all the way down to the Coast Guard Base. there are several areas that are broken up that held some real hogs in the summer. I loved to night fish with top water lures over that shallow bar.

Thanks for the memories.
 
RE: Chick/Bass/4-7

Good report, Jason. That's not too far from where I live. I can be at the ramp in 3 or 4 minutes. Too bad that I never bass fish. The ranger there told me last year that some folks were catching nice blues in the channel that leads into that cove. I never did try it then, but intend to sometime this year.
 
RE: Chick/Bass/4-7

LL, where exactly is the channel you are referring to? Does it run parallel to the main river channel? The main point has always been productive, especially in the fall. I use to slay them there on a Husky Jerk when the jump was on.</p>

BTW, excellent job with the brushpiles
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! I forgot the names of the guys that put them out, but you know who you are. They will make excellent targets for summer flippin'.</p>
 


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