Pickwick Lake Elevation 410
Water Temp. 63
BASS
The best way I have found bass has been covering a lot of water fast with a Red eye shad on flats or cranking slow with a crank bait inside coves and along bluffs. Strike King, Strike Shad in a Citrus colored crank bait are in my opinion the best crank bait for this time of year. Keep it slow but keep your boat moving. Do not worry about fishing in deep water as long as you can hit the bank because I have caught a lot of fish along bluffs where the boat is 30 plus feet but the fish were caught close to the rocky bank.
White bass
White bass are running strong! I have had several fishing trips lately where the people with me wanted to either catch white bass or they would just say they wanted to catch fish in general. With that request I had no problem catching several white bass. The way to catch them changes slightly. One day you might catch them all on live crawfish (sometimes dead crawfish work as well) and the next day you might out perform the live bait with a Strike King Series 3 crank bait. The Crankbaits are far easier to use and saves a lot of time.

Stripers
Stipers are throughout the river and lake, it is just hard to fish for them right now. You can occasionally catch some on deep diving Strike Kind Series 6-8XD's. The good news is that stripers will bite better and better from this point on. Over the next few weeks I expect to catch a lot more stripers.
Sauger
Sauger fishing has improved in the Savannah area over the last week. 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 April. Look forward to catching them on crank baits in the next few weeks.
Compliments of Clagett Talley at Talley’s Outdoors 731-607-5266
www.pickwickareaguide.com