From the other reports I have seen on here...yesterday 11-5 must have been a heck of a day for fishing. Everybody that went did good. Including us. I'm working a lot of OT at work; dad and I have been going a lot on Friday mornings when I get off work for the weekend. Well now I'm working weekends so if I'm gonna go...any day is as good as the next. I looked at the weather and thought it might be my last shot at going this week, so we went to try and beat the rain.
Dad has been on a quest for bucket list fish. Basically knocking them off one at a time. One of his on the list was a walleye or sauger. He completed that one earlier this week, seen here:
So with that said...I wanted to go after one of them too. We put in below the dam yesterday and made a run up to fish. They were generating a lot of water....a 70 pound thrust trolling motor will not even keep you still. If you stop at the wing wall, you'll be at the Glory Hole in the blink of an eye. It was ROARING through there. We tried the best we could in the swift...got tired of fighting the water. Decided to move over to calmer water. And lemme tell ya...the fish were more than willing to try and rip the rod out of the hands. Just not walleye or saugers.
It started with drumking's pets. He must not be feeding them because they wanted everything. Fished crankbaits off a rock hump. Nearly every time you could bang it off a rock down there...BOOM. You'd either get bit and miss it, or proceed to load up on one. Missed several...caught several. Nothing huge...12-15 pounds was about what these were running. Then the cats wanted a piece of the action. Caught a few channel cats on the crankbaits too. They were more interested in hitting and swatting at the cranks, but would mess up and get hooked from time to time. We were still putting fish in the boat when the rain started...and I had to leave anyway to sleep for work that night.
Water temps around 60. Water is dropping fast....gonna have to be REAL careful below the dam now. A lot of the rocks are in just 5-7 FOW right now.
Oh and this is worth throwin' in the bag too. Last week mom caught her biggest bass to date on Watts Bar in the main lake. Their scales said 6 lbs.
Dad has been on a quest for bucket list fish. Basically knocking them off one at a time. One of his on the list was a walleye or sauger. He completed that one earlier this week, seen here:
So with that said...I wanted to go after one of them too. We put in below the dam yesterday and made a run up to fish. They were generating a lot of water....a 70 pound thrust trolling motor will not even keep you still. If you stop at the wing wall, you'll be at the Glory Hole in the blink of an eye. It was ROARING through there. We tried the best we could in the swift...got tired of fighting the water. Decided to move over to calmer water. And lemme tell ya...the fish were more than willing to try and rip the rod out of the hands. Just not walleye or saugers.
It started with drumking's pets. He must not be feeding them because they wanted everything. Fished crankbaits off a rock hump. Nearly every time you could bang it off a rock down there...BOOM. You'd either get bit and miss it, or proceed to load up on one. Missed several...caught several. Nothing huge...12-15 pounds was about what these were running. Then the cats wanted a piece of the action. Caught a few channel cats on the crankbaits too. They were more interested in hitting and swatting at the cranks, but would mess up and get hooked from time to time. We were still putting fish in the boat when the rain started...and I had to leave anyway to sleep for work that night.
Water temps around 60. Water is dropping fast....gonna have to be REAL careful below the dam now. A lot of the rocks are in just 5-7 FOW right now.
Oh and this is worth throwin' in the bag too. Last week mom caught her biggest bass to date on Watts Bar in the main lake. Their scales said 6 lbs.
