News
8-10-10
Mid-South's lakes and streams where fishing is best.
Tennessee
Pickwick Lake: Guide Clagett Talley (731-607-5266) says bass fishing has been productive during the morning. He's been catching a lot of good fish around shallow points and grassy flats with buzz baits and plastic frogs. Once the topwater bite dies down, you can always catch a few more fish in the same areas on a Strike King Series 3 crankbait in the splatter back and sexy shad color schemes. During the middle of the day, bass will bite Carolina-rigged Rage Tail worms around deep humps on the main lake. Striped bass fishing below the dam has been slow at times. But when they're active, you can catch quite a few stripers on live minnows fished near the bottom with a 3-ounce sinker. Lots of catfish in the 2- to 6-pound range are biting nightcrawlers fished on the bottom in 20 feet of water. Catches of 30-40 fish per day have been common.
Kentucky Lake: Guide Steve McCadams (731-642-0360) says fishermen are catching a few bass despite the 92-degree surface water temperature. Bass are biting Carolina-rigged plastics around ledges and steep drop-offs on the main lake. The larger fish seem to be biting 9- and 10-inch worms. McCadams said a few fish are still hanging around boat docks, piers and fallen trees where schools of pin minnows are present. Anglers targeting the shallower areas are using spinnerbaits and Texas-rigged worms in the green pumpkin pepper, cotton candy and red shad patterns. Crappie have been biting live minnows around the deep ledges between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. A few catfish are biting nightcrawlers in 20-30 feet on the main lake. Catfishing is best when current is being generated.
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