04-12-2010, 09:00 AM
I had a great day Sunday with Edie Miller and Collin Fountain, both Big Orange students.<br /><br />Collin is a hardcore deer hunter and tracked me down on the TNDeer.com Forum. They drove from Knoxville EARLY and we beat the sun to Chickamauga Lake. <br /><br />Before the sun got above the horizon the crappie were on fire. We were trolling six rods and we couldn&#39;t hardly keep up with them all for the first 30 minutes. Lots of them had on their pretty &quot;crappie tuxedo&quot; spawning colors. The bite slowed as the sun came up, but we stayed on fish all morning. Collin and Edie headed back to Knoxville just after Noon with forty slabs... most caught in five to eight feet of water.<br /><br />It was a gorgeous day on the water with two folks who really enjoyed taking advantage of what Mother Nature has to offer. In one spot we found deer bedded on shore (pics below), geese and ducks flying overhead and a turkey even flew across the slough as we were catching crappie. Harrison Bay Golf Course wasn&#39;t very far away and Edie said if there were a Heaven on Earth for Collin, that was it.<br /><br />And that means life if good and gettin&#39; better every day. emoBig