Thread: Great day at Nickajack.

It was past time to check out my crappie spots at Nickajack.....well they are there! Started fishing at 9:30 a.m. Got a limit of crappie with only one fish being 12 inches and all the others at 13 inches. I made a decision after catching my first four crappie...which were all at 13 inches.....that I was not keeping anything less than 12 inches. For those that know Nickajack it produces slab crappie. I caught fish all day. I was not culling because I was using a stringer. If it wasn't 12 inches back it went. The crappie were holding tight to cover at about 13 feet depth. All fish were caught on a Bison colored Trout Magnet using 2# test line. It was almost some specie of fish each cast. The bass and Gills were in there thick also. Didn't keep track of the Gills but caught a bunch between 7-8 inches. Caught 10 large mouth like in the pic....caught a lot more large mouth in the 10-11 inch range also. Those bass were quite a struggle with the 2# test line. Had one bass that was way too big to even turn. He just kept running and my line cut in the rocks. I was beginning to wonder about my decision to throw back fish smaller than 12 inches at about 3:45 p.m. I needed two more fish to get a 15 fish limit. In the next 30 minutes I caught 3 more crappie....two were at the 13 inch mark and up the hill I came at 4:30. I will be fishing Nickajack for most of November and up through December. It looks like it is going to be a great two months of crappie fishing just as it has been in the past 3 years since I started fishing there.


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