11-09-2009, 10:00 AM
My son took me out in his Jon boat this afternoon to check out the bite out of riverpark. He pretty much fished a spinner bait the whole time and I threw a tube bait. He beat me out on quality big time, catching a 4.6 lb. smallmouth and a 4 lb. largemouth. We caught 9 smallies, 10 spots, 2 largemouth, 2 catfish and one red brerasted sunfish. My fat blue cat weighed 6 lbs., his channel cat was very skinny. I caught what might be my personal best red breasted sunfish at 9 and 5/8 in. We fished mostly rip-rap and natural rock banks between the R/R bridge and the country club. TVA had 2 gates open, 50K cfs flow. All fish were released. Beautiful afternoon and a very nice father/son outing. Really happy you got a couple of nice bass, Pete!