Reelfoot Lake July

[buzz]

Just got back from the wifes family reunion. This is the second year we've had it at Blue Bank Resort. Tiptonville Tn. Man was it hot up there. Rented a boat Sat morn and did,nt get a hit for about 3 hours. If you ever go up there---DO NOT DRAG YOUR FIBERGLASS BOAT WITH YOU. I did manage to catch 3 or 4 LM,fishing around the Resort, flipping a crawfish among the Cypress roots. The resort should have filled the pool with insect repellant instead of water. The Mosquitos are vicious. I don't mean a few----I mean millions. If you lingered at your room, with the door open, they would fill your room up. Believe me you hurried in and out of your room. Nothing but, cornfields and soybean fields. The deer eat well up there.
Highlight---sitting in traffic stanstill, 30 miles west of Nashville, for 3 hours, due to a transfer truck overturning on I-40. Know what he scattered all over the interstate----SAMUEL ADAMS BEER! Kegs, bottles, and cans. I thought the State Troopers at least should have offered you a keg or case for your trouble. NOT.

 

[fisherpal2k]

Sounds like a rough day. I have always wanted to go to Reelfoot but have been a little leary of going. Is it really a bad place to be or just bad on fiberglass boats? Would love to learn more about that area.

 

[churly]

Try that lake feb-may and you will be singing a different tune.

 

[buzz]

I'm sure at the right time, fishing would be great up there. A lot of "big mounts" in the local resurants, etc. Bass and crappie. About your fiberglass boats--- I don't think they would survive the stumps, just under the water. They are everywhere. The Blue Bank resort offers fishing and hunting packages.

"Time spent fishing is not deducted from one's lifespan".

 

[churly]

fisherpal2k - 7/18/2006 10:22 PM

Sounds like a rough day. I have always wanted to go to Reelfoot but have been a little leary of going. Is it really a bad place to be or just bad on fiberglass boats? Would love to learn more about that area.

Average depth for the lake is something like 4ft and 25ft the deepest part. Durring spring floods there is a ton of backwaters that get flooded and offer good flipping opportunities. Its basically a flooded forrest and the standing timber has broken off at the water line durring storms from over the years, acres and acres of it. Its a wild place, and the states only "non-man made lake". A john-boat would be the best means of navigation. Best time to go would probably be March-May.

 

[polo-dog]

I have heard that taking your own boat is not the way to go there. The cover is everywhere but it would be hard for me to know where to fish as I hear that there isn't good structure/creek channel like areas that would be areas that would concentrate fish. Did you get an idea as to how to figure out where to fish? The mosquitos are really bad in areas where there isn't moving water. It is interesting how that lake was formed, the New Madrid Fault is the culprit from what I remember and an earthquake associated with it. Supposedly part of the Mississippi flowed backwards at the time, strange sounding huh? Used to be an oxbow off the Mississippi I think.