Woods for some social distancing
Wife and I decided to get away Sunday and try to get some fish in the freezer, when we got to Percy Priest (Fate Sanders) there were 8 boats in line and the parking lot was full. We squeaked through the line and went to plan B head for Woods reservoir. We were on the water at 8:15, water temps were in the 63 to 64 range. We long line trolled curly tails and in the first 30 minutes had two nice keepers in the boat throwing back a dozen or so yellow bellies. The yellow bellies continued to bite but couldn't catch a crappie of any size. We pulled up and went down lake, started long lining in 8 fow moving out each pass to 14 fow. With only 2 keepers in the well we made a change. We clipped on crank baits and moved to the 16' to 20' depths pulling at 1.4 - 1.6 mph. In 2 hours we put 7 nice keeper in the boat putting back 10 plus shorts plus quite a few stripe and yellow bellies, they kept us busy. 3 of the 9 we caught were 14" plus, 2 big females and one big male, 5 of the 9 were males, 7 of the largest weighed 10.6 lbs on my hand held scale. Best crank bait colors were pink with black speckles, clown and pink with black stripe on back in the 300 series. Hoping we can get back soon.
Stay healthy all,
Ray and Audrey
