Walleyes scarce, Rockfish good 3/19/20

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My good friend, Gary is a school teacher at Central High School in Harrison and with the current scare, the school is closed until mid April leaving him with a few more days of fishing.

So he wanted to get in on the tailwater fishing this morning. We really wanted to catch Walleyes but we only caught two. TWRA has been shocking the Walleyes below Watts Bar for three days this week trying to get enough brood stock to make enough littles ones to go around for everyone. I don’t know if this had a negative effect on our fishing or not.

But the Striped bass made up for the lack of Walleye bites. We landed either 16 or 17 and we lost accurate count when we doubled two times in a row, but one time they pulled off before we landed them.

Gary caught a bird on one cast and it was released without harm. No Drum today thank goodness and no White bass either. I don’t know what has happened to the White bass up there but they should be tearing it up and are not.

3/8 oz jigs we’re perfect for the 46,500 cfs water flow. My biggest was 18.5 lbs and Gary’s biggest was about 16 lbs. My scales went on the blink. Needed new batteries and I didn’t have replacement in the boat. Water temp was 53.4 degrees. Perfect temp for Stripers. They were so feisty today.