Has anyone fished Lilly or Cain slews lately...is the water up enough to fish? Got a new to me kayak and want to try it out. Hunting a good place to fish possibly out of the wind. Any recommendations? Where is Blackwell Swamp?
Thanks
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Has anyone fished Lilly or Cain slews lately...is the water up enough to fish? Got a new to me kayak and want to try it out. Hunting a good place to fish possibly out of the wind. Any recommendations? Where is Blackwell Swamp?
Thanks
Lilly was wayy down 2 days ago and about 85% full this morning from rain water.
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Blackwell
Thanks guys I am going to check Lilly or Cain out here shortly and save Blackwell for another day.
In a kayak it is never too low. May be too clear at times but not now.
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Don`t know much about lilly or cain slough but Blackwell can be got to in two different ways one is to go to the mouth of Cotaco creek and go downstream and cross the river and look for the river marker on the north bank of the tennessee river blackwells swamp is behind that marker or you can go to county line road in madison and take it cross Swancott rd and travel about 1.5 miles to the road to the left that will take to the refuge road which will go completely around blackwell swamp have fished it quite a lot in my younger days and caught some nice bass and tore the crappie up several times on flyrod (believe it or not)Quote:
Originally Posted by flintcreek
Thanks guys I have been out in Cain with my canoe when I did a lot of dragging getting out to the main body, but I did not know anything about Cain, followed some guys back out that were in a little boat and did not drag at all. Slabby I will have to ride over and check out Blackwell one day after work or possibly slip out a little early. I saw a video that another member on here posted that looked interesting. Never been fishing in a swamp.
It`s nice over there but watch out for the gators:yikes
While there are good numbers of Black Crappie in Blackwell, including some very large fish, I have found Blackwell very difficult to fish. There so much vegetation and very clear water your left with "how" to target the fish.
Yes, there's a couple of large gators in Blackwell also. I haven't found mama with any babies yet, short of that if you leave them alone they'll generally leave you alone also.
Speaking of gators I was pittling around on lemon slough floating a few jugs Monday afternoon and spotted a 6 foot gator. I paddled from the slough up the feeder creek and this couple bank fishing was warning me about seeing the same gator. I told them I was more worried about cotton mouths than gators. AS SOON AS those words left my mouth a very very large carp leaped up out the water directly beside me knocking into my kayak.....I don't know if anyone has ever prayed sitting down and floating but I definatly took that time to do it. After I gathered my marbles I look over at the couple fishing and the woman is on the ground in tears laughing. I caught absolutely nothing after that! I guess my teeth was chattering too loud and spooked the fish.
I will have to keep on the look out for a gator when I get out there.
Don't feel bad, I've spooked large Carp in shallow water for years. They've drowned me in water or banged into my kayak hard enough to flip it many times. I've never gotten use to it, heart attack every time, LOL! :yikes
That may make me rethink putting out some noodles for catfish while I am fishing for crappie.
Yep, I think he gets to keep that one, LOL!
Alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush
Lilly has been drained, down at least 2 and half feet from a week ago a yak can go up it,but its very swift from the launch site till about half way up the canal. For some reason they have lowered it the earliest we can remember
Up until this year we had never seen a cotton mouth out of all the water snakes we have encountered or if we had it was too small to be noticed but last week we ran into the mother of all cotton mouths , I'm guessing it was a she ready to let her little ones out but had to be at least over 5 ft and much bigger in circumference than my arm .She went across in front of us about half way up to the swamp and we gave her the big right of way. Yesterday we ran into her mate we guess only about 4 ft . Lets just say he wasn't happy with us ............as to the fish we caught 1 crappie but a ton of blue gills from bigger than the hand down to 2 fingers HA The females are ready just waiting on the 70 plus water temp. We kept 30 fat bulls .