Just a nice picture

[rsimms]

Steve Reid with a good "chunk" from below Chickamauga. We love early morning light.

 

[DHaun]

Indeed it is a nice pic! What did he catch it on?

 

[rsimms]

Topwater... a Jumpin' Minnow or a Spook or similar bait? We had six or 8 fish, 3 would have been keepers. All on topwater or on Gary Yamamoto (sp?) Senko worms.

 

[polo-dog]

Were they in the bays of the floodgates?

 

[rsimms]

scattered... some around barge tie-offs, some in eddies of the wing wall or lock walls. Standard places you'd expect to find a fish hanging... nothing real secret.

 

[polo-dog]

It seems that in years past that big bunches of bass will push bait up against the dam in the bays of the floodgates. Usually I'm pulled up in the eddie outside of the wing wall fishing for the stripe/whites and I hear and see good fish slurping shad in the bays. The sound seems loud because of the dam being right there. If the comotion continues I finally can't stand it and troll over and by the time I get to the spot they are gone. I think the fish are pretty spooky most of the time but if you can find them when they are really on the feed and they surface close to the boat they hit most anything.