Watts Bar/ Whites Creek 12-9
Got to Lakeside right at daylight, found a bait shop but it wasn't open yet so I tried spider rigging for a while. Water temp was 50-51 degrees all day. Got several bites but no hookups so I went and got some minnows and went back.
I caught a couple spotted bass, a smallmouth, and a bream doing that, so I started trying a minnow about 6' deep under a float around trees and docks. Finally got two nice crappie under a dock that reaches out into 20 FOW. Tried several other docks with nothing but bream. I must have caught two dozen bream today but only the two crappie. I hunted with my Lowrance and found several brushpiles in 15-20 FOW, but didn't catch a single fish on any of them.
There are TONS of baitfish in Whites Creek, there were so many my depthfinder was losing bottom sometimes. I never saw any fish under them on the depth finder.
I did see a school of fish hanging right on the drop off on the edge of the creek channel, but it was 35 or 36 feet deep, so I didn't try to catch them. I figured they were catfish. Could they have been crappie that deep? I wish I had dropped some minnows down to them.