Our area lakes fluctuate a great deal each year, an average of 30 vertical feet for both Douglas and Cherokee. This year we have enjoyed higher than normal water levels for a couple extra weeks now, but TVA has finally started pulling the drain plug. From the below graphs you see the red line is headed down hill!
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The black line is where the water was last year at this time, a big difference. Anyway, in the Spring I noticed an old landslide area on a bluff and motored over some of the brush and rock piles that were in about 20-25 FOW. No fish were marked then, but I checked it this afternoon and the depth finder lit up like the Vegas strip. I like to find new areas and sometimes it is hard to scout instead of fish, but it does pay off. Blacks and Whites of all sizes were caught, and the blue and white 1/32oz minnow Head with a Bobby Garland bait brought home a nice limit.
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I really like the St Croix for single pole vertical jigging, and the Nanofil bent the hook and easily pulled the jig free from the deep water snags.
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Two Whites and a Black.
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90 degree weather has returned, but the fish still have to eat. My spots will be too shallow/dried up soon enough with the falling water, but it has been a good summer.
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