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March 19th
Today was a textbook tough day on Old Hickory. After a warm couple of weeks, Saturday morning marked a sharp cold front with 15mph NE winds. Water temps were in the lower 60s in the backs of creeks and water was typical slight Old Hickory stain. There were probably 100+ tournament boats on the water spread throughout the mid-lake and down-lake sections. So add a crowded lake to the list of problems today.
On Wednesday morning I found a small spot holding 2 bigger fish on back to back casts with a rattle trap. Our tournament was the last to blast out of Spencer creek (1 of 3 in Spencer creek alone today). When I got to my spot, there were 3 boats in the area including one sitting nearly on top of my spot. After 30 min the boat finally moved and I moved in. After 3 casts I boated two 15″ keepers. A few casts more caught 2 shorties. After another 30min we pulled another keeper off that spot. Eventually the spot ran dry and we moved after catching a few more shorts. We then went behind the Laguardo bridge to the flat. Fan casting traps we caught 3 short fish. We ended up going all over Spencer Creek fishing any open spots and banks we’d fished before.
We caught fish anywhere from 2′ – 7′ deep. Nothing of any size. We ended up with 4 keepers for 7lbs. 16lbs won our 20 boat tournament but only two bags of double digits were weighed in. There were only two limits brought in. Half of the field failed to catch a keeper. Tough day. We finished 5th.
The guy who won said they caught 4 limits of keepers thoughout the day. I have no idea on what or where he fished. This sounds crazy to me because everyone seemingly struggled out there. The cold wind was brutal. I don’t know what we could’ve done differently. We fished docks, flats, rip rap, wood, and bridges.
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A friend of mine who fishes with my partner from time to time fished the Shutes Branch and Drakes Creek area. Just 2 weeks ago he won a tournament out of flippers w 19lbs. Today, he zeroed. They only caught 6 fish all day long. Tough day all around for most people.
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Good report, It was a tough day for sure.
Me and my partner put in with his aluminum boat at bartons creek boat ramp. Right at the ramp and the surrounding water there was 5′ visibility! I’ve never in my life seen the water this clear on OH. we could see the bottom and all the trees the majority of the way back into the creek. We also struggled to catch fish back there as well…I caught 2 shorts on a sinko. Couldnt get them to bite anything else. We then moved up the creek towards the main river and stopped in a few small pockets off the channel. The water dirtied up fast as we moved up but still had a good foot or more of visibility in some spots. We threw everything and I only managed to catch one more really nice 15″ fish flipping the senko. Tough day, we struggled with the wind.
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Ill be out tomorrow with a client prefishing for a tournament. I plan on heading way up into Barton and Spring Creek……spooks, shallow cranks, spinnerbait, and jigs. Ill post how it goes
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Looking forward to hearing how it goes. I fished the spinnerbait hard!
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Well I hope you find something Brian. It’s been tough on Old Hickory. It’s March so there are big fish to be caught but they’re really hard to find–really catching more than 12 fish a day would be good IMO.
I’m going to Priest next for the next month nearly. Hopefully the fishing will be better.
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Ill be on Priest trying to hooking the hybrids tomorrow morning, possibly this afternoon. A Friend of mine wore them out this weekends, gorging up on shad!
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quote LippinRips:Ill be on Priest trying to hooking the hybrids tomorrow morning, possibly this afternoon. A Friend of mine wore them out this weekends, gorging up on shad!
Hope you do good. My friend had a tournament Tuesday. He zeroed fishing fate sanders and up
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quote TNBassMan10:quote LippinRips:Ill be on Priest trying to hooking the hybrids tomorrow morning, possibly this afternoon. A Friend of mine wore them out this weekends, gorging up on shad!
Hope you do good. My friend had a tournament Tuesday. He zeroed fishing fate sanders and up
Never got to get out 😥 dang work lol. Im going all day tomorrow though, try to get a few slabs for dinner in the morning then maybe move up lake in the afternoon and try and catch those hybrids busting bait!
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quote LippinRips:quote TNBassMan10:quote LippinRips:Ill be on Priest trying to hooking the hybrids tomorrow morning, possibly this afternoon. A Friend of mine wore them out this weekends, gorging up on shad!
Hope you do good. My friend had a tournament Tuesday. He zeroed fishing fate sanders and up
Never got to get out 😥 dang work lol. Im going all day tomorrow though, try to get a few slabs for dinner in the morning then maybe move up lake in the afternoon and try and catch those hybrids busting bait!
Good luck. Post your address when you’re frying them up haha
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