July 22nd and 23rd, 2010

slayer — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:29:12 +0000

Got out with Rick Thursday the 22nd of July and we did well. We scored fish by trolling and jigging. All the action came mid morning and mid afternoon. The total to the boat on the day was "lucky 13" with 8 fish trolled and 5 jigged. I feel we did exceptionally well since we really weren't on a bunch of fish at any one time. However, where we fished we seemingly fished well based on our results. Additionally, the fish were big. Most were 9-12 lbs and I jigged up my big fish of the year thus far – a Monster 23 lb'er!

July 16th, 2010

slayer — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:53:01 +0000

Fishing continues to improve on the southside. I hit the lake twice this week and fished mostly from Flat Creek down to the dam. All the guides are catching fish on shallow bottoms, maybe 40-60 ft to start the day, but then note the fish move out to deeper water as the day wears on. I prefer the deep fish as these tend to be bigger so I've been fishing mid morning on through the day. This yielded fish in the 80 ft + water which I've been able to troll effectively. However, I'm not seeing any big schools yet so jigging has not been productive. Besides one fish Rick got on a sideways cast spoon out over the channel, there hasn't been much jigging to do. Hopefully that will change shortly.

July 6th, Tuesday

slayer — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:52:55 +0000

After being on vacation for a couple of weeks, I finally got back on the lake to see what's happening. Though the temps are nice and high, I didn't really find many fish. I worked it hard from Aqualand all the way up to just above Browns Bridge and the most I could muster were a couple of small fish at the mouth of Flat. Doug struggled today too and we're thinking the boat traffic from all the activity over the long weekend could have taken a toll on the fish. Late last week the fish were starting to school up and show themselves in deep water but all that had changed today. All I know is that I couldn't get over any from 9:00 AM all the way through till 3:00 PM. This is the first time I've seen "nothing" this year and usually by July I'm able to troll fish consistently.

June 9th, Wednesday

slayer — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:32:40 +0000

My boat was being serviced and I got to pick it up today. Seeing there were some fierce thunderstorms coming down from TN, I threw a spinning rod on board for the ride back from 6 mile to Aqualand. I launched at Charleston Park around noon and bringing the rod turned out to be a good call.

June 4th, 2010 Fishing with David and Jonathan

slayer — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 21:56:09 +0000

Hit the lake today for a last minute trip with David Shutte and Jonathan. Didn't expect to catch much but you never know. David had his summer vacation cut short and called me Thursday evening to see if there was anything we could do Friday. After 1/100,000.000 of a second I answered: Lets go Fishing!

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