Thread: Well She's Headed Back Up!

Wil be there from 04/12/ to 04/18. How do you think the water will be by then? Will they be in the stake beds or on the banks?

Originally Posted by robert fox

Wil be there from 04/12/ to 04/18. How do you think the water will be by then? Will they be in the stake beds or on the banks?

We are expecting more rain next week. I believe the water will still be up this time next week. They'll try to hold some water to help relieve the flooding below. TVA can go up to 365 in the summer (Higher if they have too) but they don't want too. At about 375' and change she pours over the gates. I ain't seen it that high in years!

Next week's temps are supsed to start out in the 70's so there ya go. I think the blacks for sure are gonna try to make hay while the sun's shin'n. They will def. head to the flooded brush. Only problem I had when the water got up over 361 last time, was getting to them. Heck there was water backed up in cow pastures where I fish! They were burried up in the buck brush & you just about had to wade to get to'um.

If they start drop'n the lake, troll'n shallow in a little deeper water might be the best bet. Falling water really screws up their game plan & mine too!

Rule of thumb this time of year is rising water move in, falling water move out.

Good luck on your trip!

Thanks for the report Wiskers ...I will be down there tomorrow afternoon for three days .
I think we may luckout on the weather ,i will be happy to catch enough to have a mess to eat.

so you thinking that the blacks will go up sun or mon? im watching the weather and water level and plan on going when the getting is good. please keep me posted with how things are...i have never really hit the lake when they are up shallow...it would be a blast!

thanks,

mike

Wiskers, did you pray for all this rain? I have read several post that said the cold fronts were because of you last year. So I was just wondering.....lol

wiskers,, were heading down after work tonight, hope to be on the lake first thing tomorrow,, looks like its going up about a foot in the next 24 hrs,,
we probably will stay in our cove or go down to shawnee bay cove,, I know a few brush piles, but now they will be 10-15+ deep,, should we just troll the banks ???
thanks
bub

Originally Posted by johnnybub

wiskers,, were heading down after work tonight, hope to be on the lake first thing tomorrow,, looks like its going up about a foot in the next 24 hrs,,
we probably will stay in our cove or go down to shawnee bay cove,, I know a few brush piles, but now they will be 10-15+ deep,, should we just troll the banks ???
thanks
bub

The whites may be in that 10' to 15' stuff with the water coming up. Check it top to bottom!

Last time the water started up 3 and 1/2 weeks ago I was catching BIG black females (3 knuckles wide across the back) 2' deep in 4' to 5' of water casting a jig below a rattling cork around flooded trees and buck brush.

I hope to get my dad on the lake this weekend and send him home with a good mess of fish. Haven't decided where I'm go'n yet but sick or not I'm go'n!

I'll probably start out fish'n for whites. They have been deeper and this cold front probably hasn't effected them as much as the blacks. As the day warms I'll deff. check the banks on the wind blown side of the bay. Last time if you found the trash you found the fish.

Good Luck, might see ya out there.

Originally Posted by klight1122

Wiskers, did you pray for all this rain? I have read several post that said the cold fronts were because of you last year. So I was just wondering.....lol

Man... You don't know how much crap I've caught over that one! Never again! :D