BigFishGuide
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Fished down below Nick-A-Jack Friday afternoon with my son. We saw Dhaun and Flip1up fishing and spoke with them for awhile. I was basically scouting around for some live bait. TVA has cut the flood gates off and the bait fish have moved on me and it's been getting harder and harder to get. But I did not find any bait Friday night so my son and I crappie and sauger fished. Caught 3 crappie and 1 sauger. We stopped by sonic to grab a bite to eat and he was so tired he fell asleep in the floor in front of the heater with his hand in the sonic bag.
Saturday mrng. Took a client who had never sauger fished before and we caught about 50 sauger all day. We were the first there in the parking lot and the last to leave (12 or 13 hr fishing day). We had 13 keeper sauger. Most fish were caught either by jigging a jig with a stinger hook (no particular coler seemed to be better than another at least not yet) or either the fish were caught by dragging a minnow on the bottom. Caught lots of bream on the dragging pole. I did see one boat keeping illegal sauger. I told him they had to be 15" but he continued putting 12 and 13" sauger in the livewell. He put in down at the South Pittsburg boat ramp just in case the GW (game wardern) was at the shellmound boat ramp checking. TWRA does on occassion check for short fish there at the ramp. But I was afraid since I was the only one there besides me and him I would not be able to keep tires on my truck or trailer seeing as I had already drew his attention to the fact that the fish had to be 15" long for him to keep them. I'm proabbly going to file a complaint with TWRA with his boat number that way they have it on file. That's all I know to do at this point.
Fished Sunday mrng. before church. Caught 2 smallies and 3 or 4 spotted bass before I had to go. Broke off on 3 fish and had another 4 or 5 pull off. (The pull offs were due to the bait being so BIG) The biggest smallie weighed in at 5lbs 5oz. The other spots and smallie were all about the same size 3 to 3 1/2 lb fish. All fish were realesed to be caught again. Flip1up here's a pix of the smallie that pulled off looked like he had a jiggig spoon trevel tear mark in the side of his mouth.emoBigsmile
Saturday mrng. Took a client who had never sauger fished before and we caught about 50 sauger all day. We were the first there in the parking lot and the last to leave (12 or 13 hr fishing day). We had 13 keeper sauger. Most fish were caught either by jigging a jig with a stinger hook (no particular coler seemed to be better than another at least not yet) or either the fish were caught by dragging a minnow on the bottom. Caught lots of bream on the dragging pole. I did see one boat keeping illegal sauger. I told him they had to be 15" but he continued putting 12 and 13" sauger in the livewell. He put in down at the South Pittsburg boat ramp just in case the GW (game wardern) was at the shellmound boat ramp checking. TWRA does on occassion check for short fish there at the ramp. But I was afraid since I was the only one there besides me and him I would not be able to keep tires on my truck or trailer seeing as I had already drew his attention to the fact that the fish had to be 15" long for him to keep them. I'm proabbly going to file a complaint with TWRA with his boat number that way they have it on file. That's all I know to do at this point.
Fished Sunday mrng. before church. Caught 2 smallies and 3 or 4 spotted bass before I had to go. Broke off on 3 fish and had another 4 or 5 pull off. (The pull offs were due to the bait being so BIG) The biggest smallie weighed in at 5lbs 5oz. The other spots and smallie were all about the same size 3 to 3 1/2 lb fish. All fish were realesed to be caught again. Flip1up here's a pix of the smallie that pulled off looked like he had a jiggig spoon trevel tear mark in the side of his mouth.emoBigsmile
