Thread: New 12” Lowrance graph and little fishing. 4/07/21

I have been silent here for sometime and I thought that I would explain. Normally I don’t crappie fish during the spawning season because of the crowds and I don’t like to fish in a crowd. Enough on that. Grin.

What I have been doing and a lot of it is fishing below Watts Bar dam for Stripers and Walleye. Lately, TVA has been spilling all 20 gates below WB but that hasn’t deterred us or the fish. One day last week we landed 20 Stripers and 2 walleyes with 5 more Striper hookups pulling off. In 2.5 hours of fishing.

if you can get on the fish before all the guides from North Carolina get there with clients, it can be pretty good fishing. When they show up and start running through the fish, it is over for me. One day last week, there were over 12 guide boats up there. Just too much pressure for such a small
area.

But I decided not to sell my boat and purchased instead, a 12” Lowrance Elite Ti2 graph. Today, Phil and I launched and began scouting for some of the hotels that we have planted. Also, I set up about 4 different screens that I normally use while searching for fish.

We did check some shallow water for temps and to see if the crappie are staging in spawning areas. We caught 5 keepers in two different coves and had about 10-15 short crappie and Phil landed a 3 pound channel catfish. I will be glad when the spawn is over and not so many people are fishing for them. Crappie don’t bite except when they spawn. That is what they say around here. Lolol

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