05-27-2010, 09:00 AM
I had the honor of playing host to Kelly and Taylor Swift again. Our plan was to pursue tailwater cats. Sadly, TVA had other plans. <br /><br />They had generators cranked almost to the max. Sources tell me it was because Watts Bar Nuke plant tripped off and they needed extra power. Oh well. We went to Plan B.<br /><br />Me and the Swift&#39;s headed North to the the Sequoyah Nuke. We started out throwing live shiners and had a ball catching a serious mixed bag including crappie, smallmouth, spots and largemouth. We went through three dozen shiners in a big hurry. Time for Plan C.<br /><br />We started drifting for cats but after some fast action shiner fishing, it felt like work. Four cats in about and hour-and-a-half. Bored, we switched gears and headed for Plan D after bluegill/shellcrackers. We caught a zillion, but had a tough time finding quality.<br /><br />Finally we switched again to Plan E and spent the remainder of the afternoon teaching the Swifts to shoot docks for crappie. They enjoyed that. Taylor especially.<br /><br />As you&#39;d expect, it began as somewhat of a cluster. But as time wore on, the Swifts got pretty good. We found no docks that were loaded, but we found some quality fish on several different &quot;new to me&quot; docks. <br /><br />They left Chickamauga headed back to Nashville with some great fishing memories and some new-found knowledge. That means life is good and gettin&#39; better every day.<br /><br />