Pickwick Lake Elevation 410
Water Temp. 50

Bass
Crank your crank bait slow for best results. The best Strike King Series 3 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. I have mixed feeling on live bait right now, sometimes it saves a bad day but it's hard to beat a Series 3 crankbait reeled slowly that you can cast over and over without any attention in between.

White bass
White bass continue to bite. I have caught them mostly on grubs and the same Strike King Series 3 crank baits I use while bass fishing. Some banks will just have more white bass than large mouths and small mouths, these banks tend to be gravel banks and sandy banks.

Stripers
Stripers remain tough. I do not expect to catch a large number of stripers right now but they will start biting real soon. I do not start really striper fishing until mid to late March.

Sauger
Right now sauger jigs are accounting for most the sauger being caught. Dark jigs seem to be working best, such as dark brown, dark red and orange. A lot of people are tipping the jigs with minnows but I have yet to use live baits at this point, I prefer plastic minnows. 35’ has been a good depth but do not let that move you out of a deeper area if you are catching fish there, I often check deeper depths and more shallow depths to check to see if they are more productive.

For an online report you can go to www.pickwickareaguide.com and you can also go there to access TVA's website and by doing so it will take you straight to Pickwick lake.