11-23-2010, 10:00 AM
Headed on over to Watts Bar this morning to check on the crappies. <br />The water, now being lowered made a big portion of my choice docks now un-fishable.<br />But it has also made some otherwise un-fishable docks now fishable, as some of them contributed to the live well. I can get under those blame cross beams now. emoBig
<br />With the water being down I did a whole lot of scouting today. I really liked seeing a huge brush pile sitting on one dock getting ready to be dropped in the water. Made my heart skip a beat. You know I made a waypoint on that dock.<br />Marked a few other docks that I could see were brushed up after pulling a few slabs out from their cover.<br />The majority of the fish caught today were really nice fish. Even got a 14 3/4 TARP from a blow down using the Fork Lake Tackle lure that M17-GLOCK gave me on friday. That one lure put 3 TARPs in the boat for me until a bluegill tore it in half making it pretty much useless. emoBawl Went to using the same MO-GLO outlaw special color in the BG Shad to finish out the day before the white caps started rolling in and forced me to leave.<br />Ended up with 16 Crappie with only 3 throwbacks, 5 yellow bass, 1 catfish, 1 gill, and 1 largemouth bass. Hooked into one fish that was huge as it half spooled me before stopping. I pulled and pulled for sometime trying to move this thing but I eventually straightened the hook and it pulled free. I think it was a big ole drum. No slime on the line.<br />Most all fish were caught on a 6 count which was pretty consistent with the Chick this past Friday.<br />
<br />With the water being down I did a whole lot of scouting today. I really liked seeing a huge brush pile sitting on one dock getting ready to be dropped in the water. Made my heart skip a beat. You know I made a waypoint on that dock.<br />Marked a few other docks that I could see were brushed up after pulling a few slabs out from their cover.<br />The majority of the fish caught today were really nice fish. Even got a 14 3/4 TARP from a blow down using the Fork Lake Tackle lure that M17-GLOCK gave me on friday. That one lure put 3 TARPs in the boat for me until a bluegill tore it in half making it pretty much useless. emoBawl Went to using the same MO-GLO outlaw special color in the BG Shad to finish out the day before the white caps started rolling in and forced me to leave.<br />Ended up with 16 Crappie with only 3 throwbacks, 5 yellow bass, 1 catfish, 1 gill, and 1 largemouth bass. Hooked into one fish that was huge as it half spooled me before stopping. I pulled and pulled for sometime trying to move this thing but I eventually straightened the hook and it pulled free. I think it was a big ole drum. No slime on the line.<br />Most all fish were caught on a 6 count which was pretty consistent with the Chick this past Friday.<br />