Thread: Watts Bar report Apr 25-27th

Nice slabs CP!

Originally Posted by AndyMac

Nice slabs CP!

Thanks, buddy .... hope you get some, too !!

It has been a strange spring! Eggs look right, water temps are right, males "dressed for the party." However, I have caught very few near the bank. Is it coming, is it ending? I am a bit confused.....

Originally Posted by ET Fish

It has been a strange spring! Eggs look right, water temps are right, males "dressed for the party." However, I have caught very few near the bank. Is it coming, is it ending? I am a bit confused.....

Same deal as last year for me .... egg laden females out over 20-30fow and no males on the bank. And we were there a week earlier than this time, last year.

Water temps are high, unless they nest deep. Depth finder was showing a "thermocline" of sorts at about 5ft ... so, the cooler water may have them nesting 8-10ft deep (unless the rains cool the water down quite a bit & color the water up. We had nearly 3ft depth visibility in most of the places we fished. Bass were all over the banks, nesting in that 72-75deg water.

The males we caught (Black Crappie) were still sporting their tux's ... so I don't know if they were guarding nests or still waiting on the females. We caught Blacks/Whites out of the same trees, at approx. the same depths, so there may be some hybridization happening if the females aren't real picky

They've gotten off "some" spawns a few years ago, because we did catch almost as many <10" fish as we did keepers. There was just a huge gap in their sizes

Great report and nice catch.

Some nice fish on the bar no doubt.

U need to bring a few of them over to Ky Lake so someone can re-catch em.

Great catch.