02-25-2010, 10:00 AM
Well, I haven&#39;t seen a river report in a long time and haven&#39;t wet a hook in 3 weeks, so I decided to fish out of Riverpark for a few hours in the p.m. When I got there about 1, TVA had 3 gates open. By mid-afternoon they had closed them all reducing the flow from 56K to 44K cfs. Water temp was 43 and color was great. I started out below the lock and worked my way down to the golf course throwing tube baits at natural and rip-rap shorelines.<br /><br />I caught a 15.5 in. white bass and then I hooked a big brown fish with a small mouth, but, no, it wasn&#39;t what I wanted. Yeah, it was a drum of 9 lbs. I caught 3 more drum up to 11 lbs. If a guy wanted to just have some fun and catch some heavy fish on light tackle, the drum will sure cooperate now. No Bass! All fish released.<br /><br />The flow has settled down now to normal levels which should help the fishing up in the lake.