drumking, Watts Bar tailwaters, white bass mostly, 8/30/2015, Dr Phillip Gawthrop and Spurhunter

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drumking, Watts Bar tailwaters, white bass mostly, 8/30/2015, Dr Phillip Gawthrop and Spurhunter

Dr Phil and I invited Spurhunter to fish with us this morning below Watts Bar dam. We were targeting white bass and hoping to catch a Striper or two. What a day this was. The best white bass day that I have ever had for size. I have caught more numbers before, but never the consistent size that we caught today. There were 5 or 6 times that we had 3 fish on at the same time.

Spurhunter managed to catch the only Stripers that we landed today. He caught 4 with the biggest at 14 lbs 12 ozs. A brute in the current on 10 lb test line. We had to chase it a little bit. emoBigsmile Spur also caught a very nice Smallmouth Bass and I caught another Smallie that wasn't quite picture worthy. emoBang emoBigsmile Dr Phil chipped in with a nice Largemouth bass early on in the game. The other species that we caught were Drum, skipjack, yellow bass.

We kept a 3 people limit of white bass and 2 Stripers and released all the rest of the fish. Oh wait. We did keep the largemouth for Wanda. Spur wanted the skipjack, but we said no. emoUpsmile All fish were caught on Foley 2" spoons in white and chartreuse colors. Spur has a bunch for sale if you are interested in doing some tailwater fishing.

4 Stripers: 2 Smallmouth Bass: 1 Largemouth Bass: 1 yellow bass: 2 Skipjacks: 1 Drum: and 101 White Bass: Biggest white bass today was 17.25 inches long. We were throwing back 2 lb fish after we caught our limit. If Dr Phil didn't have a birthday party to attend, we might still be up there yet. I took 25 pics, but am not going to post even 1/2 of them. emoBigsmile emoGeezer
 

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Re: drumking, Watts Bar tailwaters, white bass mostly, 8/30/2015, Dr Phillip Gawthrop and Spurhunter

DK, glad you guys had a great day up in my neck of the woods. I bet Wanda was happy with the catch!
 
Re: drumking, Watts Bar tailwaters, white bass mostly, 8/30/2015, Dr Phillip Gawthrop and Spurhunter

Pretty good sized stripper
 
Re: drumking, Watts Bar tailwaters, white bass mostly, 8/30/2015, Dr Phillip Gawthrop and Spurhunter

What a blast it was, it was really hard to leave biting fish like that!
 
Re: drumking, Watts Bar tailwaters, white bass mostly, 8/30/2015, Dr Phillip Gawthrop and Spurhunter

emoWorthy emoWorthy emoWorthy
 
Re: drumking, Watts Bar tailwaters, white bass mostly, 8/30/2015, Dr Phillip Gawthrop and Spurhunter

emoThumbsup emoThumbsup emoGeezer


emoCool
 
RE: drumking, Watts Bar tailwaters, white bass mostly, 8/30/2015, Dr Phillip Gawthrop and Spurhunter

What a hoot! Way to bust them. emoThumbsup
 
RE: drumking, Watts Bar tailwaters, white bass mostly, 8/30/2015, Dr Phillip Gawthrop and Spurhunter

emoThumbsup Well done Grasshopper emoDance ........... emoGeezer emoUSA
 
RE: drumking, Watts Bar tailwaters, white bass mostly, 8/30/2015, Dr Phillip Gawthrop and Spurhunter

A regular smorgasbord!


I'd Rather be emoAngler
 
Re: drumking, Watts Bar tailwaters, white bass mostly, 8/30/2015, Dr Phillip Gawthrop and Spurhunter

Loads of fun!!! Got in to some a few years ago and my daughter still talks about that day....
 
Re: drumking, Watts Bar tailwaters, white bass mostly, 8/30/2015, Dr Phillip Gawthrop and Spurhunter

Sounds like an awesome day. Since I don't have much time to fish these days, I'm living through the guys who share their reports so keep them coming!
 
Re: drumking, Watts Bar tailwaters, white bass mostly, 8/30/2015, Dr Phillip Gawthrop and Spurhunter

Nice striper! A good day!
 
Re: drumking, Watts Bar tailwaters, white bass mostly, 8/30/2015, Dr Phillip Gawthrop and Spurhunter

You know it was rare when Dickey fishes past 10 in the morning Rick. LOL
 

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