Today is Sunday but I'm writing the report for Saturday. Yesterday was COLD and very windy on the Hiwassee. The wind was blowing straight up the river and made it rough for me. Today is a much better day weather wise but shame to the man that lays out of church to go fishing.
Thursday we caught bunches of fish but that cold front had me feared on not being able to find the fish. I actually had a trout fishing trip lined up but my cousin backed out of going and I decided to go after some crappie. Well there wasn't any fish to be had in the treetop laydowns for me Saturday. I actually have been reading the books pictured in that one picture and decided to put my new knowledge into play and actually discovered something by accident. I found a drop off...which went from 6' to 15' in a half a boat length. It had a stump or brush pile on the lip and sides of it and fish were all over it on my depth finder. I started verticle jigging and tight line jigging it and that is how I caught every one of my fish. I couldn't catch them by casting to it..actually had to try and position my boat to where I was right on the drop and then drop the jig straight off the side of the boat until it hit bottom, and then just lift it up and let it hang there, dropping it occasionally. Coincidently I got into some of the better crappie I've seen come off the Hiwassee. One went 2 pounds on my digital scales and the rest were in the pound range. The shortest one I got was right at 10 inches. The rest were way above that.
Water temp was 50-51. That's almost a full 8-10 degrees off from what it was two days before, even with it raining that day. I was fishing the mouth of a creek and the water was very muddy from that creek as it entered into the river. Caught all my fish on jigs. Most were on charteuse grubs 3 and 4 inch models. Caught a couple on a white/green popeye jig under a float....when the wind died down for a second long enough to throw it out there. It was a great day for me. Talked to some guys at the ramp that came back skunked so it made me feel good that I found enough to bring home for a good mess to eat.
Here's the two biggest ones. 2 lbs and 1 1/2 lbs.
And the group shot.
Thursday we caught bunches of fish but that cold front had me feared on not being able to find the fish. I actually had a trout fishing trip lined up but my cousin backed out of going and I decided to go after some crappie. Well there wasn't any fish to be had in the treetop laydowns for me Saturday. I actually have been reading the books pictured in that one picture and decided to put my new knowledge into play and actually discovered something by accident. I found a drop off...which went from 6' to 15' in a half a boat length. It had a stump or brush pile on the lip and sides of it and fish were all over it on my depth finder. I started verticle jigging and tight line jigging it and that is how I caught every one of my fish. I couldn't catch them by casting to it..actually had to try and position my boat to where I was right on the drop and then drop the jig straight off the side of the boat until it hit bottom, and then just lift it up and let it hang there, dropping it occasionally. Coincidently I got into some of the better crappie I've seen come off the Hiwassee. One went 2 pounds on my digital scales and the rest were in the pound range. The shortest one I got was right at 10 inches. The rest were way above that.
Water temp was 50-51. That's almost a full 8-10 degrees off from what it was two days before, even with it raining that day. I was fishing the mouth of a creek and the water was very muddy from that creek as it entered into the river. Caught all my fish on jigs. Most were on charteuse grubs 3 and 4 inch models. Caught a couple on a white/green popeye jig under a float....when the wind died down for a second long enough to throw it out there. It was a great day for me. Talked to some guys at the ramp that came back skunked so it made me feel good that I found enough to bring home for a good mess to eat.
Here's the two biggest ones. 2 lbs and 1 1/2 lbs.
And the group shot.
