Pickwick Lake Elevation 410
Water Temp. 55
BASS
Lately I have had several fishing trips that start off slow and then we hit a good area where we start catching fish in the 3-4 pound range. The best way I have found bass has been covering a lot of water fast with a Red Eye Shad or cranking slow with a Strike King Series 3 Crank bait inside coves and along bluffs. The Series 3 in crawfish colored crank baits are in my opinion the best crank bait for this time of year. Keep it slow but keep your boat moving.
White bass
White bass are running strong! I have had several fishing trip lately where the clients wanted to either catch white bass or they would just say they wanted to catch fish in general. With that request I have had no problem catching several white bass. The way to catch them changes slightly. One day last week we caught over 50 on dead crawfish and a red crawfish colored Series 3 Crank Bait. The very next day we caught 50 or more on live crawfish and Series 3 Crank Baits but they would not eat dead crawfish. Today, after trying live crawfish we caught more on the red colored Strike King Series 3 Crank Bait.
Stripers
Stipers are through out the river and lake, it is just hard to fish for them right now. You can occasionally catch some on deep diving Strike King Series 6 Crank Baits around the Dam. The good news is that stripers will bite better and better from this point on. Over the next few weeks I expect to see some of the biggest stripers I will see all year and numbers will increase after that.
Sauger
It's been a tough couple of years for sauger. TWRA had boats out Monday gathering sauger to reproduce in their hatchery and return to our area in order to improve the population of sauger in our area of the Tennessee River. The standard way of fishing with a sauger jig in water as shallow as 15' and water as deep as 60' will continue to work throughout March. Look forward to catching them on crank baits in the next few weeks.
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