Old Hickory Saugeye

I was fishing on the main river channel at the Steam Plant Road Access this morning and caught a variety of bass, catfish, bluegill, drum and even a saugeye. It was a real sunny day and I fished the shady side of the lake in about 10 feet of water. I caught the saugeye on a small piece of nightcrawler fishing the bottom.

Old HIckory-Chrysler Jeep Gallatin Access

Caught about 40+ fish today using jigs tipped with minnows in about 10 feet of water. Caught mostly crappie & yellow bass with some largemouth bass and a nice catfish. Very nice fishing day on Old Hickory. I took home 9 keeper crappie in the 10 to 12 inch range.

Percy Priest Crappie Spring Bite

Fishing at the Fall Creek Ramp on Percy in the Spring was quite an experience. I caught several large white & black crappie on chartreuse & yellow paddle bugs tipped with medium & small minnows at about 7 feet suspended in 10 feet of water doing a slow backwards troll in my kayak. The crappie were difficult to land because they were so aggressive and kept getting off. I had to have my net in the water as soon as I had the bite. Overall it was my best crappie day yet in Tennessee. Beat that Speicher!

Early Spring at Shearon Harris, NC

Brian flew in for a couple of days of early Spring (or is it late Winter?) fishing at my hometown lake. We hit the water early on Sunday, just before sunrise, and stayed on the water until about 5. We used mostly live minnows and had spotty success. First day I got a fairly nice crappie.
Brian landed a nice largemouth, though he was disappointed it wasn't a crappie?!?

Day 2 started out promising, I almost landed a grass pike and we had a few crappie early. Though things were slow. We crossed over in midmorning to the west side of the lake and Brian caught the crappie of the weekend and along side my "big" one of the day:

Old Hickory Bull Creek Ramp Area Jan 08

Eric's Blue Cat was pushing 10 pounds and was the big fish of the day. He caught it in 30-40 feet of water on an Erie Deerie with a night crawler. It was one of the few fish caught that day.

Striper fishing off of Virginia Beach

I was fortunate enough to take a weekend charter for Striper / Rockfish off the coast of Virginia Beach. I went aboard the Debra Christine which is typically out of Maryland but the skipper moves south for the stripers. We limited out on both Saturday and Sunday. I do have a bit of fish for a while.

J Percy Priest-Stewarts Creek Ramp Nov 07

Fishing was slow on this cool foggy and then windy fall day. Eric Lawson and I landed a few cherokee bass (hybrid stripers) and some nice crappie. It was a beautiful fall day and a very interesting place to fish. I caught the first Cherokee Bass before dawn and Eric caught his about 10am. We will be back. See pictures of cherokee bass, scenery and a nice crappie caught by Eric.