We visited Hicks creek, Ball Play, Notchy creek, Corntassle creek, 4 mile creek, and docks along the river channel. It is going to take more than one or two scouting trips to get to know our way around the lake. I will say that it is a beautiful lake. Sort of reminds me of Tims Ford, except you can catch fish in this lake. Grin. Dr Phillip caught a small crappie on his very first cast. We ended up with 10 crappie but most of them were too small to keep. We had 2 keepers. We had better find ways to catch 7 if we are going to compete in the November tournament. It will be embarrassing if we skunk out up there.
We caught some fish from deep brush, but Dr Phil and I caught most of our fish on docks. One particular dock yielded 7 crappie (2 keepers) and on and around another dock, we hooked 9 largemouth bass and landed 8 of them. One was a quick release. Added 2 more yellow bass from that dock before they quit biting. A short 15 minute flurry. I must have caught 6 or 7 bass in a row on a Crappie Dawg Whiplash lure on a 1/16 oz jig head.
The most important thing that we learned today was the areas that we need to eliminate in our search for crappie. I have been studying the map of Tellico and had several places in mind to locate. Had success finding a couple and had to eliminate one other one for sure. Chris and Tim were gracious enough to put up with us. We left them a couple of times to go exploring on our own. That is when we found most of the fish that we caught. Not giving away any secrets. Grin. Just kidding, guys. I don't have secrets. We didn't take many pics. Fish were small, but the scenery was beautiful.
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