I MIGHT make another crappie trip or two, but it appears to me our crappie guiding season is over. I got knocked out of several trips due to crazy weather and two last-minute cancellations. :livid: My overall total number of keeper crappie (451) was well down from 2018. However the catch rate per hour was identical. We averaged 26.5 keeper crappie per trip with a catch rate of 4.72 keepers per hour. It might seem low to some, but fishery biologists know that statistically, that's huge.
No worries about crappie slowing down ... I made my first guide trip to the Chickamauga Dam tailwaters yesterday and the smallmouth bite is "ON!" There is never a time in the Tennessee River when there's not something to catch.
Fred and Kathy Drury came over from Virginia to sample the Tennessee River. They caught six different species of fish, including a grand slam on bass (smallmouth, largemouth and spotted bass). But the great big kicker brown bass were definitely the highlight of the day! They both reeled in smallmouth that qualify for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency "Angler Recognition Program." Woohoo! That means life is good and gettin' better every day!
No worries about crappie slowing down ... I made my first guide trip to the Chickamauga Dam tailwaters yesterday and the smallmouth bite is "ON!" There is never a time in the Tennessee River when there's not something to catch.
Fred and Kathy Drury came over from Virginia to sample the Tennessee River. They caught six different species of fish, including a grand slam on bass (smallmouth, largemouth and spotted bass). But the great big kicker brown bass were definitely the highlight of the day! They both reeled in smallmouth that qualify for the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency "Angler Recognition Program." Woohoo! That means life is good and gettin' better every day!
