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shawnyb34

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New to the board and looking for a little help. Love the site. Been living here in Seymour for about 2 years now and just had a question about bank fishing. Seems to me that there isn't a whole lot of places to fish from the bank. I woauld love to go out and catch me some bluegill and some crappie,and have my self a nice little dinner, but don't own a boat. Can any one help point a poor sap such as myself in the right direction? No honey holes.......just a place where I can get some access. Can be at any of the lakes nearby. Thanks!!!
 
there is lots of public bank access around all the area dams. there are public fishing piers on many lakes.
 
Welcome to Tndeer!

I have been bank fishing 99% of the time since I started fishing 8 years ago. Try creeks and ponds. If there is a neighborhood with a good sized creek running through, it might have a nature trail to access the water. Same with parks. I don't know what your town is like but I'm guessing there should be at least one good creek or river going through that you could find some access to. Another good spot is log jams under bridges. Sometimes water is deep under a bridge and there will usually be some logs from past floods. You can find a lot of fish in places like that.

Hope this helps
 
There are several places you can walk in at Douglas to fish. With the water level being dropped for the winter, you can walk for miles in most areas. I don't know how they get to it but around the Sevierville water department area on Douglas... about 1/2 mile by water on the Sevierville side of the Dam, I see a lot of people bank fishing. The water level is nearing 40 foot below summer pool so you can imagine how much bank there is too fish.

Another option is to fish around the free launch at the dam. I have fished around there from the bank when I would go there to take some sunrise pictures and have caught some fish waiting on the sun to get up. I've also caught a lot around there from the boat.

Cherokee, Douglas and Norris will all be dropped well below summer pool this time of year so there is plenty of bank to fish at all of them. Just watch out for the mud. Try staying on the rock points or gravel to keep you from slipping.

There are 2 fishing sites for this area. www.tnbassfishing.com and www.easttennesseefishing.com that you could probably get some help from. The 2nd site has several people in the area that could help you more than I can. I follow the 2nd site but don't post on there much. They are turning into a rockfish fishing site and I hate rockfish.

Good luck.
 
Just wanted to thank everyone for all of the great advice. Silverfox thanks for the sites. As I said earlier that I moved here about 2 years ago from Ohio. The fishing around here is a lot different than what I am use to. I'm from an hour north of Dayton and most of the lakes in that area were hand dug to hold water for the canal system in the late 1800's. Most of the shoreline has a gradual deepening and is covered by a lot of brush. There were no dams and no generation/water level issue to worry about. Think I might hit a few places around Douglas tomorrow. Once again thanks for the help!
 
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Stik, you are right about that. I took this up right when we got here.......but nothing beats the taste of a good bluegill or crappie.
 
I use to fish for them a good bit back home. I had one place that I trolled Bettlespins and would kill them. Another place that was a mill pond that was full of hybrid bream. The big blue ones that pee on you when you take the hook out their mouths. Throw a cricket up in the cypress stumps about a foot under the cork and hold on.

I haven't bream fished since 2009 but I did see some hogs on Norris last summer. I saw a lot of smaller ones on Douglas this summer when the water was high in the bushes.
 
SilverFox said:
I saw a lot of smaller ones on Douglas this summer when the water was high in the bushes.
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I caught more smaller ones, but lots of good numbers last year on Dougie than the year before, when I was catchin huge bream every outing. You think it will be like that this coming year?
 
Just wanted to stop by again and thank everyone for all of the help. Silverfox thank you and hope that you did well. I was able to get out for a couple of hours towards the end of this week and pulled in about 40 bluegills, but only brought home about 25, and they were very tasty.
 

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