finally... first trip to the chick 9/10/2006

[gloomis0620]

I finally made the 3.5 hour drive from virginia down to the chick. Was kind of surprised at how shollow the lake is. Didn;t expect it to be so little water on the bank. Also there was more veg. then i also expected. anyway I found the fishing to be queit tough for my first trip. I put in up at dayton marine and traveled downstream fishing points, sloughs and rocky banks as i went. I threw a skitter pop the first hour or so with no takers. Found a very long point that ran out to the main channel with a little wind and caught three lm (no keepers) there on crankbait.Had a very hard time keeping the grass(coon tail maybe) off the hooks. I also threw a rattle trap somewhat with no takers. moved on down looking for spots that i would fish at home. found a nice looking bank down next to the bridge with some nice rock and decided to throw a worm which got me two more bites (lm .. no keepers) from there i fished a couple humps with carlonia rig with no takers. went back around the humps again with crank no takers. decided that maybe i was fishing to close to the bank and backed off into 9 ft of water in the sloughs and i started hooking a few more fish but no keepers. fished the crank till 4 pm ending up down around sale creek. hung me head and headed back up to dayton and loaded the triton. Talked to a few locals at the ramp which said a couple keepers is all its been taking to win tourneys. Still feel like i'm a better fisherman than that but there is always next time. guess i'll be back again sat. for another try.

 

[Fat Albert]

Glad to have you visiting the Chick... It has been tough (dog days) but when the water temp cools down it will come alive... Sorry, you did not catch a bunch but sometimes that is how it goes...emoGeezer
You should have gone into Sale Creek and fished some in there... good place.

 

[DHaun]

gloomis0620, Thanks for the report and glad you made the trip all the way from Virginia! I hope you can make it down sometime to fish one of the CFF tournaments.

 

[MadBomber]

You might want to stop off at Kingston and fish the upper end of Watts Bar. JTF could probably give you some tips.

You would get two more hours of fishing time.

 

[fisherpal2k]

Tough day on the water gloomis0620. I know the feeling. I went the other day and it was a bust for us too. Hope you get on some fish before the tourny. Down where you described by the bridge I am thinking you was at hwy. 60 bridge. Just be real careful around that sucker as it is fairly shallow over there. I have seen a few rip the lower end out crossing those rock piles out there. Maybe I can find you at the pairings meeting. Look me up if you get to be there. I am with the Ocoee Bassmasters. Don't catch them all!