Finally...the water is waaaaaay up! We headed straight for the back of Powell Slough, a little creek fed northern cove, where we searched for some spawners. We found them, but they they found us first. The water clarity made sight-fishing impossible and we literally ran over beds while trying to find them. So we backed out a few feet and used sunfish-pattern poppers and a chartreuse Speed Trap that I doctored with a sharpie to add a bluegill dot. We would simply wait and watch for the tail swirl of a bedding bass chasing bream and throw one of the two lures to the spot. Nearly every time, we got bit, but rarely by the fat femalesemoScratch. Around six or so the post-spawners were chasing shad at the cove mouths, so we switched over to traps and spinnerbaits and spent the remainder of the day chasing and catching better quality fish. Our best five LM weighed 15.2lbs and biggest fish was a monster gar whom I decided to donate my shaky-head worm to after getting a close-up of his chompers.
Hiwassee/Bass/4-22
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polo-dog
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Way to go jason, you should have entered the Wal-Mart tourney and given Beetlespin a run for his money.
jon the fisherman
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good report Jason, makes me want to come down and fish the Hiwassee again.
polo-dog
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That is a long way to run but if you have a boat that can do 70 or 80 like some of them do it wouldn't spend too much of your fishing day with the run. Most of the tournaments on the Chick with any real money involved are won either way up lake, Hiwassee or higher, in Nickajack or locking through to Watts Bar. I don't think in the years that I have lived here(16) that I have heard but of maybe one that was won on the lower lake. There may have been some but I don't think that it's often. Less pressured fish are where it's at in the big tournaments or that's how it seems. You can electroshock big bags up in the lower end of Chick but you can't catch them on a hook and line.
fisherpal2k
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Good job Jason and thanks for the report. Glad you got into them. It's not too far to run but it sure is getting expensive to travel that far in a boat.! Keep us informed on the Hiwassee and maybe we can have agood CFF 5.
ranman
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Good Job Jason! You gotta love that speed trap! Where is powell slough
ranman
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thanks!I've done pretty well there in the fall but I've never fished it this time of year.Those two points coming out of it should be holding some post-spawners.
The next one down river has a couple of stump beds on either side going in that are pretty good too.
The next one down river has a couple of stump beds on either side going in that are pretty good too.
ranman
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correction robert's is the second one down.
Yeah, the post & pre spawners were hanging out around the wood in that narrow channel that runs along the mouths of those small coves just up from Powells. There are a ton of brushpiles in them, as well. If you catch a monster bass around there with a Lucky Craft rattler in its face (Ayu Shad), I'd like it back
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