Report: Chickamauga Lake crappie 8/24/2015

[drumking]

Everyone was busy today, so I just put in a couple of hours of scouting by myself this AM. I fished for white bass early on, but they were a no show. Actually, I had a bite on the first cast, but my line broke on the hook set. That usually doesn't happen with me. No more bites for the next 20 minutes, so I said phooey on the white bass and decided to go scouting for crappie. I checked several off shore places that I have marked, all the while looking for a big school of fish. I found a big school and caught two keepers out of it before deciding to go look for others. I know that I'm crazy for leaving fish to go find fish, but I get great pleasure in finding new schools of fish. Getting them to bite is an entirely different matter at times. Grin.

Along the way, I caught 3 small yellow bass to go along with the crappie that I caught. I released all fish to grow bigger today. I really don't need to keep any fish for a while unless it is is a big white bass or Rockfish. I caught my fish on a 3/32 jig head with a 2" Mo-Glo Blue Ghost BG shad and all fish were deep. You can tell by the one screen shot that I took, that the fish were 15-20 feet deep and the water temp was 82 degrees. You can see it on the pic. This structure is on the edge of a popular creek channel on the Chick. How many fish do you think are in this school?

[CUonthelake]

There's enough In that school that my butt would not have left to go look for any more....what's wrong with you DK... It would have been my great pleasure to have "schooled" you on that spot...ughhhh...u r killin me

[jimp]

Nice report, I'll guess 94 fish showing on the FF. Nice find too, was it a BP or ledge they were hanging on to??

[drumking]

Jimp, this spot is a stump on the edge of the creek channel.

[Kingfish1]

Good stuff DK. Gets me all fired up wanting to go fishing! Thanks for sharing both the report and pics.

[jimp]

thanks DK for the info, was it just one stump or a cluster of stumps. Never seen "that" many on one stump before, but I'm not a structure expert either like you. LOL Thanks again.

[tenncrappie]

Good outing my friend. That was a Cluster for sure!!!!!!!!

[Dave and Lynn]

Thanks for the report.

[Merdock]

Wow that is a good school of fish. Thanks for the report