Visited Watts Bar today with visions of a live well full of crappie caught by pulling planer boards. Planer boarding has been a very effective the past several weeks on Tellico and Chickamauga so one would figure things would be the same on Watts Bar. Wrong! It wasn’t for me anyway. On Tellico a few days ago I caught 47 crappie with 25 keepers in just 3.25hrs in 65 degree water temps pulling boards. Pulling boards on Watts Bar for over 4hrs yielded nada! Zip! What a disappointment!
Anyhow pack it all up. Switching over to single pole fishing I started out with two inch baits in various colors and wasn’t seeing all that much activity. As expected I eventually got hung and broke off. Downsized to a panfish assassin this go around and immediately started catching fish in the same location. Tried a few different colors in the panfish assassin and it didn’t seem to matter. They just wanted that downsized bait. Livewell was starting to fill and I told myself I’m out of here when I reach my limit. Got to my limit and thought to myself, just one more. After I caught one more crappie I thought to myself, just one more. Anyhow you all know how it goes. Eventually called it quits with 25 crappie being caught and 17 keepers.

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