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Chickamauga Lake Crappie report 4/18/17
The rain stopped late morning, so I took off for a short scouting/fishing trip all by myself. I concentrated on locating drops in the mid-teens with some fish on them. I found a couple of new spots for me and had some success catching crappie on them.
I did a little dock shooting just for fun before I quit fishing and caught a couple of keepers and several short crappie under the docks. Under the first dock that I tried, I hooked a big catfish and after a short fight, it got around a post and broke me off. Bummer. It was the only little bait like that that I had. My brother in law gave me this one to try. Then I caught a channel catfish on the next cast. Moved to another dock and had a big fish pull off. Then I moved to the last dock that I found and had another big fish take the jig and started swimming slowly out to the deep water away from the dock and I thought that I would land this one. Alas, the jig pulled loose and there was no slime on the line, so I think it might have been a big bass. I did catch a couple of spotted bass today on crappie jigs. But, since I have a boat rule that says if you don't see the fish and it gets off, then it has to be a Drum. Grin.
I was sitting on a channel drop about 1/4 mile off shore and one of the pros that are scouting for the upcoming big bass tournament zoomed by about 20 yards away when he had over 1/2 mile to get by. Just don't know about some people. I bobbed around for a little bit, but I didn't even think of a cuss word, let alone say one. I did think of the word "idiot" though.
I caught fish on Bass Assassin Pro Tine 2" shads and dappers. Also I caught a couple of fish on Bobby Garland Black night 2" baby shad.
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