Pickwick Lake Elevation 409
Water Temp. 50

BASS
One thing that always works for me this time of year is cranking a Strike King Series 3 Crank Bait along the banks in the lake as well as below the Pickwick Dam. Crank your crank bait slow for best results. The best colors have been natural colors with bright accents. Small grubs also work well right now. I have been Carolina rigging along the banks and that has been pretty productive as well. Not every trip boats a big smallmouth but now is the time to try to catch a trophy smallmouth bass, a good day can produce one or more over four pounds.

Stripers
I am not doing any striper fishing trips right now mainly because this is just a slow time of the year for them. If I was to take someone striper fishing right now I would depend on a deep diving Stike King Series 6XD crankbait to keep the trip interesting. Although I know you can have a good day on live bait and jigs drifting right now, but I would try the Series 6XD first.

Catfish
Most catfishermen are using worms bought out of bait stores in deep water. After talking to a few catfishermen while I was on a sauger fishing trip I was told that catfishing is a little slow. The water from all the rain has muddied the river and really made it hard on all species right now below the dam. But this should get better over the next two weeks.

Sauger
Sauger fishing is finally starting to pick up. The weather was nice a few days last week and the sauger were a little active which made it an over all good week. Darker colored sauger jigs such as brown and dark red seem to work the best. Live minnows are working good although you might find a good plastic minnow that can equally perform as well.
Compliments of Clagett Talley 731-607-5266 www.pickwickareaguide.com