Sorry I'm slow... but here are the most recent Scenic City fishing reports from Chattanooga and Chickamauga Lake:
March 18, 2012
I had a great day fishing with Richard Boehms and his girlfriend, Kayla Winn.
We caught fish... a wide assortment of fish... but we had to work for them. The crappie we found Saturday in the driving rain did a total disappearing act overnight and we had to go "on the prowl."
We did some "hunting and pecking" looking for a concentration of spawners, but couldn't find the Mother Lode.
Finally we split the difference and went back to slow trolling... but we were trolling shallow with jigs under floats. That's where we caught about 5 zillion fish... crappie, bass, catfish (blues & channels), drum, yellow bass, bluegill, golden shiners and shellcrackers. It was great fun, albeit aggravating having to cull through the small crappie for keepers.
Richard loves to eat fish... they went home with 28 fine crappie, along with an assortment of other species that will fit perfectly in a frying pan.
Kayla got broken off by one BIG fish of some type that we never saw. It ran around too much to be a catfish... I'm certain it was either a drum, or a big bass:( But she captured another drum, her biggest fish ever:)
In THIS PICTURE I'm am pretty sure Kayla is making reference to the size of Richard's fish... that means life is good and gettin' better every day?
March 17, 2012
Had a great day out with the VanZant clan... Dillon, Jacob and John. We had to call a short "Rain Delay," and then it still rained on us even after we thought it was done. But while it was raining the fish were on fire... trolling six rods and we had fish on almost non-stop for the first hour. After the rain stopped and sun came out, the bite slowed dramatically.
As usual, lots of short fish to cull through. But in four hours the VanZants carried home 19 big, fat crappie to filet. More importantly I believe Jacob and John had a TON of fun!
March 16, 2012
Tim Maharrey and his co-worker Nick are thinking about lining up some of their business customers on fishing trips, so they wanted to make a short trip just to "test the waters." We had a beautiful morning and caught LOTS of crappie and yellow bass.... "LOTS" means several dozen in about three hours. As per norm this year, we had to cull through a lot of undersized fish for a few keepers... but Tim and Nick weren't keeping fish anyway, so it was all about "catchin'" ... and we did lots of that.
With all the warm weather we've had, the crappie have moved up much shallower much earlier this year.
March 18, 2012
I had a great day fishing with Richard Boehms and his girlfriend, Kayla Winn.
We caught fish... a wide assortment of fish... but we had to work for them. The crappie we found Saturday in the driving rain did a total disappearing act overnight and we had to go "on the prowl."
We did some "hunting and pecking" looking for a concentration of spawners, but couldn't find the Mother Lode.
Finally we split the difference and went back to slow trolling... but we were trolling shallow with jigs under floats. That's where we caught about 5 zillion fish... crappie, bass, catfish (blues & channels), drum, yellow bass, bluegill, golden shiners and shellcrackers. It was great fun, albeit aggravating having to cull through the small crappie for keepers.
Richard loves to eat fish... they went home with 28 fine crappie, along with an assortment of other species that will fit perfectly in a frying pan.
Kayla got broken off by one BIG fish of some type that we never saw. It ran around too much to be a catfish... I'm certain it was either a drum, or a big bass:( But she captured another drum, her biggest fish ever:)
In THIS PICTURE I'm am pretty sure Kayla is making reference to the size of Richard's fish... that means life is good and gettin' better every day?
March 17, 2012
Had a great day out with the VanZant clan... Dillon, Jacob and John. We had to call a short "Rain Delay," and then it still rained on us even after we thought it was done. But while it was raining the fish were on fire... trolling six rods and we had fish on almost non-stop for the first hour. After the rain stopped and sun came out, the bite slowed dramatically.
As usual, lots of short fish to cull through. But in four hours the VanZants carried home 19 big, fat crappie to filet. More importantly I believe Jacob and John had a TON of fun!
March 16, 2012
Tim Maharrey and his co-worker Nick are thinking about lining up some of their business customers on fishing trips, so they wanted to make a short trip just to "test the waters." We had a beautiful morning and caught LOTS of crappie and yellow bass.... "LOTS" means several dozen in about three hours. As per norm this year, we had to cull through a lot of undersized fish for a few keepers... but Tim and Nick weren't keeping fish anyway, so it was all about "catchin'" ... and we did lots of that.
With all the warm weather we've had, the crappie have moved up much shallower much earlier this year.
