Chickamauga Lake fishing report: 2/22/17

Yesterday, several of my fishing friends and I went down to Chattanooga Christian School to help the kids with their fishing classes. It was teaching day yesterday and we were glad to help the students learn how to shoot jigs, learn to fly fish, and a couple of classes on general fishing info and water conditions.

Today was first hands on day as several of us guides took 2-3 students each out on a 1/2 day of fishing. Everyone caught fish and it was a great catching day for all. The 2 young ladies that I took out were freshmen and they had never caught a fish in their lives. We managed to change all that. Grin. We did a little bit of several fishing techniques to help them broaden their experience as we fished with jigs under floaters for a while. We long lined for a while. And we shoot jigs for a while. We ended up the last hour with drop shot technique with wax worms with bluegills being the main target. But, the hungry blue catfish got in on the wax worm action. The last hour of our morning, the girls landed 7 blue catfish up to about 6 lbs on 4 lb test crappie line. It was such a joy to see how the girls reacted the the hard pulling catfish. They were overjoyed. I was too.

Tomorrow will be day 2 of the fishing part of the class and each guide will have a different pair of students to take out. We fish from around 8 AM to 12:30 PM and the students go back to school at the end of the day. This is great fun for the guides and I know that the students are having a great time fishing.

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This is an awesome thing that you all do. Hard to figure who has more enjoyment out of it, the guides seeing someone catch their first fish or the kids.

Good deal DK! You are the best at paying it forward.:ThumbsUp

DK, sorry to hear you have been under the weather. I love seeing the pics with the little's and their first fish. I appreciate the invite to participate but adult responsibilities prevented me, aka the job... See you soon!

That's just awesome! It's things like this that give me hope for our future. Thanks


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Thank you very much for helping the kids catch their first fish and see the world through a fisherman's eyes. Without access to a boat or a very dedicated parent most people never get to see a big part of our world. I am glad everyone had a good time (judging by the smiles in the pictures) and the fish were cooperative. Thanks again for all you do.

Great job!!!

Great job Dickey -- some very happy kids. Good to see you the last couple of days also.