10-18-2010, 09:00 AM
I&#39;ve been thinking about going over and fishing Watts Bar for a couple of weeks now. I decided it was time to make the trip over there today. Arrived at Hornsby Hollow boat ramp just at daylight and got started on some shallow docks.<br />Picked up a one keeper crappie and one throw back plus a gill on my first 6ft dock. Moved over to an adjacent dock and picked up a channel cat. From there I went out and fished some lay downs in 20ft water and picked a nice 14 1/2&quot; Tarp crappie. Fished it for a while longer and only caught a gill or two. Headed over to some more docks and started shooting to pick up another channel cat and another gill or so. The next few docks were duds so I headed on out to the main channel. First dock produced nothing but while hand starting my outboard I noticed my pull cord was just about to come into. I thought Oh Crap! emoEek It was like way to early to quit fishing. <br />I decided to ride around and scout out some of the docks on the Bar. Came across this great looking dock that I just had to fish. With the fear of my starter cord breaking I opted to just leave the outboard running instead of shutting it off and risk it breaking off so far out from the ramp.<br />This dock had to be one of the toughest docks to shoot I had ever seen. But I got my jig in there and low and behold on a 4 count here comes my second TARP Crappie of the day at 14 1/2&quot;. Here I ended up catching one short, 5 fish over 13&quot; ( two of which were Black Nose crappie), and a total of 3 TARPs off this one dock. That gave me a total of 4 TARP crappie for the day, all of which, believe it or not measured 14 1/2&quot;. And my outboard is running the whole time. The fish turned off here and I moved on to other docks and picked up yet another gill, a smallmouth, and a stripe. Called it quits and head back to the ramp at about 12:30. <br />The BG Shad color choice today was MoGlo Ghost on 1/32 at a 4 count. <br />