Pickwick

SWhat all species does Pickwick have? I know Crappie, bream, Stripers, largemouth and Smallmouth bass. What about walleye or Sauger? I've heard a few on here say how good a eaten those are

no walleye, sauger are below the dam but that fishing is in the dead of winter.

thanks. UI head Pickwick was slap full of small mouths. One of my bucket list feshes

We catch a few sauger above the dam each year and they are great to eat and yes it is full of smallmouth and this weekend they were really biting according to a couple of my friends that fish for them.

Thinking about when we have Camp this fall.

Don, I used to fish the river below Pickwick quite a bit and it has everything the lake has in a compact version.Sauger do their spawn in winter but are caught other times of the year.They are a delicious fish for sure!The bite above and below the dam depends on how much water is going thru the turbine house!Without a current the fishing slows considerably.Here are a few of the river baits I use at Pickwick:Attachment 132032

Has a fair number of yellow perch also. I've even heard of a northern pike caught and confirmed by the ms game and fish in bear creek.

Bigfeets slalom skiing...use a top-water jig...hahaha:Rofl

We caught sauger on ky lake trolling cranks a while back. May be able to catch a couple following creek channels trying to catch crappie. Watch out for them teeth tho


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Them yaller perch are good eating, I've caught a few before while bream fishin

I was at Pickwick 2 weeks ago. The couple who's lake house we were at hired guide Roger Stegall for a day and caught a ton of largemouth and smallmouth, as well as a bunch of white bass. I think they said they had caught 52 by the end of the day just counting the largemouth and smallmouth. The wife only did half the day, she had him bring her back to the house around noon. They were fishing topwaters early while the bass were busting the surface, then they crawled jigs with plastic trailers along the bottom the rest of the day. There is a ton of duckweed in the lake this year and he told them it was the best thing to ever happen to the bass population, says he has caught several 10 pounders already this year.

awesome, they should be slammin it getting ready for winter when were up there

I caught a nice largemouth bass right off their boat dock right at dusk one night, was using a topwater buzz bait. We had been swimming right there in the same spot an hour earlier. They have a fixed dock and the water is so high right now it was up over my ankles while I was standing on the dock, the kids loved it.

and had an absolute blast. Ray put us on the crappie and we wore then out

We go every year either around the 4th or memorial day, its a family lakehouse their grandaddy built in the 60s and they rotate who has it each holiday. They had it memorial day this year but we couldnt make it down. His sister had it over the 4th but they had us down the week after. I didnt take the boat this year but I took it last year and did ok pulling cranks in Bear Creek.

Let me try to shed some light on smallmouth, I am no expert but have had some good sucess below the dam at Pickwick. I prefer generation from 40,000-120,000 to make the fish more active. I fish strictly live shiners , store bought at Roger Gants BP there in Counce, in the XL size. I fish them on #4 circle hooks or #2 gold aberdeen hooks , which ever youre more comfortable using. I use a 7 foot medium action spinning rod with 6 lb. test. and a carolina rig with a 24 inch leader and an 1/8 to 1/4 oz weight depending on current. The goal is to be tapping but not dragging the bottom. the smallmouth hide behind any kind of current break or eddy on the bottom. I drift with the current only using the trolling motor to keep me straight. I fish about 10-20 yds off the riprap bank. I have found the smallmouth fishing below the second set of powerlines, where the riprap ends to be not worth the time. Its a fun way to fish because you will constantly be catching different types of fish. Attachment 132095Attachment 132096Attachment 132097Attachment 132098

THANKS, those are awesome. KNow there's some monster Stripers down there as well

if you want monsters, there are better tailwaters in the system, but for there are great numbers of stripers under 20 lbs.

What little bass fishing I have done in the last 15 years was at Pickwick. It impressed me.

Don,

From my experience on Pickwick, you really only ned 2 baits for largemouth/smallmouth. One is a carolina rig, the other is a Rapala DT6 or DT10. I have had the best bass fishing day of my life out there one day. 3 of us in the boat, we found a sunken road bed and started fishing. The guy in the front had a dt 10 on and the first cast had about a 6 pound Smally. We started throwing the carolina rig and EVERY cast we caught a fish. We tripled more times than I could count. Now most of the fish were between 1.5 and 2 lbs, but every once in a while we would pick up one about 5 lbs. We caught over 100 bass that morning, but the only smallmouth was the first fish caught.
I was pumped when we got back and called my brother, so we could go the next day. We went back to the same spot at daylight and we got 1 bite. I guess that is fishing.

I've got a house just south of the dam in Wynn Springs cove. My family is from Adamsville and I've spent my whole life on pickwick.....and I echo everything thats been posted bout it. I will tell ya...outside of live/cut bait for cats...and the assortment of jigs for crappie....you can just about catch anything else outta the lake or the river on a 3"white grub.

There is some good sauger in Bay Springs and I have even caught a couple yeller perch there before.....

Bigfoot

I got some Bigfoot reports from up that way. LOL
RECEIVED: From the G.C.B.R.O. Web Site Submission Form

DATE: 7/21/91
TIME: 9:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Alcorn-Tishomingo County Lines in Mississippi.

TERRAIN: Partially wooded and cutover with swamps.
OBSERVED: Myself and three friends were riding around when we pulled off the highway to "relieve" ourselves. Two of the guys got out of the truck and walked over to a small embankment, myself and the other guy stayed by the truck. When of the guys yelled "Oh my God, ya'll come quick and look at this thing!" We ran over to where they were, and just by moonlight we saw the figure moving over a hill probably 60 to 70 yards across the cutover. From where we were it looked to be about 6 to 7 feet tall and had a somewhat shaggy or "matted hair". We all just looked at each other and started trying to make excuses as to what it was.We never really told anyone or when we did we kind of jokingly said we had seen "bigfoot" and laughed it off with the people we told. It has been several years, but we all still wonder what it was we saw that night. I've since heard "urban legends" about the "Gorilla of Sharp's Bottom" from a few people who's grandparents had told them about it. We just always thought it was to scare us from going down into that bottom when we were young.