Watts Bar tailwater report 5/06/2016*

Candi Burrows and I both were up by 4 AM in anticipation of a great Striper fishing AM. We were first ones up on the wall. Grin.
Same pattern that we have been on for the past several days. 1 oz shad head jigs that I pour and powder paint and plastic trailers. On the 2nd cast of the morning, Candi hooked and landed a Saugeye, which is a Walleye/Sauger hybrid. It is the first one that I have ever seen in the flesh.
A few minutes later, we began to catch Stripers. We landed 8 out of 9 bites. Our most exciting moment was when we both hooked up big Stripers at the same time. It was a tug of war for several minutes before I was able to bring mine to the net, a beautiful 14 lber. Then we proceeded to try and land Candi's big fish. Alas, it got into a rock pile and finally pulled off. It must have been a horse of a fish. Groan.
When the Stripers turned off, the white bass and Drum began to show up. I only caught one Drum and Candi now has the title of "Drumking" for one day. Grin. She also caught all the white bass. Let me tell you folks, this is a fishing machine that I have created. She knows how to fish and how to handle big fish. She even takes them off the hook herself. I like that. I am a great "net" man.
Candi had some work to do, so we called it quits early and were on the way back home before 9:30. Love those short but sweet trips.

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Nice Day. NovoRandall and I were down stream from you and watched her slay a few of them. We drove down last night and fished this morning. Looked like you are a master netter. We wanted to meet you but we weren't going to come in on you all and looked up and you were gone. Randall caught a nice smallmouth, and a 14 lb drum. Caught a couple of smaller. Thanks for the info that you gave Novo.

Great report and those are some really nice fish. Do you eat drum, we don't have them here.

Nice fish.


Regards

Jeff, we are very approachable. If you see us in the future, it will be fine if you want to come near and meet and chat a while. Grin.

Awesome catch. Those are really nice. Ya'll have been doing well down there. Candi needs to hold the fish down a little. She keeps blocking her smile. :)