Hit up Browns Creek Lake yesterday

[mossyhorns300]

Took a buddy of mine from Virginia who is really good friends with the designer of the Rage Tail line of plastics from Strike King out to Browns Creek Lake yesterday. He is a moderator on their website and does some of the web design for the site as well. It was a pretty slow day to say the least. We caught some fish, but not as I many as I had hoped we would. Only 2 other boats on the water all day long. He had some of the prototype baits with him that were released at ICAST a couple months back and we managed to catch a few. Those should be on the shelves anytime now if they aren't already. Water was clear and water temps were in the low 50's and most of our fish came on sunny banks closer to deep water with isolated wood cover. We tried fishing some of the bigger laydowns and brush, but they didn't seem to produce near as well as an isolated stob or two out a few feet off of the bank. A few fell for the plastics, but most wanted a slow-rolled spinnerbait, just enough to flutter the blades. We had a lot of fun either way and looking forward to our next trip(s) in 2010! Here's a pic of one of the fish I caught.

 

[Southpaw]

 

[go_okfishin]

Nice fish.

 

[easy45]

cool

 

[4onaside]

I took a sabatical from the forum for a while, so this may have already been splashed around, but, if not, did you see the picture of the 16/15 that was electroshocked this fall?

 

[Hawk]

 

[bullzeye]

 

[mossyhorns300]

I took a sabatical from the forum for a while, so this may have already been splashed around, but, if not, did you see the picture of the 16/15 that was electroshocked this fall?

No, I haven't seen the pic, but I have heard about it.

 

[4onaside]

I took a sabatical from the forum for a while, so this may have already been splashed around, but, if not, did you see the picture of the 16/15 that was electroshocked this fall?

No, I haven't seen the pic, but I have heard about it.

Obviously, it was a hog, being one oz shy of 17lbs. The picture was taken in the parking lot by the ramp. You may recall my mentioning seeing an enormous bass suck an 8" crappie off the surface. We were standing right over it on the pier, and I guesstimated it weighed maybe 12 lbs. Maybe I was on the light side. LOL

 

[mossyhorns300]

I do remember that. I had posted a pic of an 8 lber I caught out of there and then you told me bout the crappie. Funny thing is, I had a local guy in a Ranger tell me he's seen the same exact thing happen while he was on the lake.

 

[kholmes]

I grew up in Lexington and fished Brown's a lot growing up. My dad caught a 13lb 1oz out of that lake in the mid 80's. The same day he caught the 13 he lost a fish that he swears was bigger.
Caught it on a jig and pig in late Feb.

 

[BuckWild]

When I was about 9 y/o I caught a crappie out of Browns that missed the state record by an oz. That was back in the mid 60's. I've fished that lake a thousand times over the years.

 

[4onaside]

When I was about 9 y/o I caught a crappie out of Browns that missed the state record by an oz. That was back in the mid 60's. I've fished that lake a thousand times over the years.

I think that it is a fine lake, with a variety of game fish, even yellow bass, if you are into catching a strong fighting little fish on ultra light tackle. The only thing that I have not found is decent sized bluegill, although plenty of marginal ones. And, the big ones may exist. Perhaps its just that I have never gotten into them.

 

[stretch]

I don't know if it still stands or not but Mr. Clyde Freeman of Jackson held the state record for Black Crappie and it was caught at Brown's. Talking about the crappie that got ate, I was up there in the early 80's about daylight one morning backed up on the ramp fixin to put the boat in, talking to Mr. Simmons who used to live on the lake and manage it. We were talking and watching a momma duck and her babies swimming along the edge about 30-40 feet from us when there was an explosion in the water and the last baby duck in line became breakfast for something. Never saw what kind of fish it was but I suspect it was a bass. Mr. Simmons speculated that it was a musky that had been stocked in the lake some years before. I don't know what it was but I know it ate a baby duck.

 

[4onaside]

I don't remember any muskies being stocked in West Tennessee other than at Herb Parsons, which was Fisherville Lake at the time. Obviously, if the lake manager remembers them being stocked in Browns way back when, then it must be so. However, I believe that a 5 or 6 lb bass could probably handle a young duckling with relative ease, and would certainly do so.

 

[spitndrum]

 

[JohnnyBond]