Thread: Pushing cranks

Ray, the trolling doesn't seem to be as productive at Tim's. I think you will do better dock shooting and fishing blow downs. Be prepared to travel and explore. If you don't get hit in the first ten to fifteen minutes on a spot, leave and check the next spot. Good luck tomorrow. At the meeting last night, there weren't many reports of good catches this past week. Hope that doesn't hold true tomorrow.

Sam

Tim's is so sprawled out, its a little intimidating looking at the map, You could spend a morning in just one hollow, I was going to head mid lake and start there. I've fished lay downs on Old Hickory but you're talking shore to 20 fow, their a lot deeper on Tim's, that will take some getting use to, I've never fished water deeper than 25 feet. I read an article about pushing crank baits in deep water lakes when the Thermocline comes in, it made a lot of sense especially if you find bait and suspended fish. I'm looking forward to "Expanding my horizon" as they say. Thanks for the feedback.

Ray

Hey Ray. Most people will probably head up river to fish. I know that is where I am going. Mid lake at Tim's can get bad if we have a good bit of wind blowing like the weather man is calling for. There are plenty of docks up river and in dry creek area that hold crappie. You may even be able to pull your cranks up that way. There is a good bluff on the left hand side of the river channel with docks on it. See you in the morning.

Its funny you say that, at lunch I was looking at the map and there are some areas that looked pretty good to me. Some flats with the creek channel close by, I've been assuming the crappie would have moved to mid lake or closer to the dam, on Priest they are mid lake to the dam now. I've also been looking for areas where the pleasure boaters might not run. Will leave the house around 3:00 to get there in time tomorrow, probably won't get much sleep worring I won't wake up to the alarm LOL. Wife doesn't fair well in the heat and she's not a shooter so I'll be on my own tomorrow.

See you there

Ray

Good luck! Let us know how you did.

It was a tough day, I shot docks, spider rigged and pushed cranks, I didn't catch a crappie till 10:30 and it was on a dock with minnow buckets all over it and a bunch of poles laying around, I would guess they had fished under the lights and were in bed sleeping. I caught 4 short fish there and a 20" smallie. A short while later I hit another dock that the side scan showed was loaded with brush, I picked up three shorts there and a 22" smallie, hit several more docks after that, I caught a couple more all short before I headed back to weigh in. I had two fish that when you squeezed the tail hit the 10" BARELY, I put them back, looking back maybe should have kept them but I didn't want to chance it, would have got me in the top 5. After weigh in I went back out and caught a mess of nice gills, had the yesterday, boiled em then put them in ice water, when they were good and cold ate them like shrimp, dipping in cocktail sauce. Awesome appetizers!
Pushing cranks I caught the most fish, a couple cats, some got size yellow bellies and a couple 14" plus hybrids, no crappie, lost a couple cranks that got hung but was happy with the technique, followed a drop along a flat (Tim's doesn't have many of those) and was able to follow the contour fairly close,
Planning on hitting Percy Priest early Saturday, we'll see how I can do there.

Have a great day,
Ray