what to do when the lake water is up in the trees..

i am goin down to norris on sunday and it is up in the trees and i have been down there before and it was like that and i never done any good much but i am going to go back and try it out..... what would u do if u were facing this situation of the high lake level....

Fish the flooded brush. Bounce plastics in front of them, spinnerbaits parrallel to them, and shallow crankbaits the same way. I would work them slow - especially isolated patches of brush. I did pretty good with the high water here on KY lake, but that was a little earlier in the year.

Col is spot on, but remember that you can catch allot of fish fishing the original banks, this works well if you really know the lake. I personally look for anything rocky, knowing it creates a "shelf" of sorts as the water is up. And you also find a good assortment of root wads that aren't exposed to water that has created the same shelf formation. Again knowing the lake is key so keep notes.

I like to dead stick a spinnerbait in the trees try firetiger color.

[QUOTE=offdtop;327342]Col is spot on, but remember that you can catch allot of fish fishing the original banks, this works well if you really know the lake. I personally look for anything rocky, knowing it creates a "shelf" of sorts as the water is up. And you also find a good assortment of root wads that aren't exposed to water that has created the same shelf formation. Again knowing the lake is key so keep notes.[/QUOTE]

Great post! You can fish your favorite search baits in these areas to start getting info. As I recall, there are a few spots & smallies in Norris correct? They like to school up so it could be on post spawn when you find'em.

I would run the farthest i could up in a creek or river if nolin has a river,pitch jigs and brush hogs and also throw spinnerbaits at isolated stuff

some weightless trickworms,tubes or creature seem to do good for me around the outside for agressive fish if they don't come out for it then i flip something right in the middle next to the trunk,use the limbs to hold the bait
next to it,i think sometimes i catch em just staring at the tree trunk or bush.
worked at rough this past weekend.let the weightless stuff fall deep it is slow but it works.

yeah norris has a bunch of spots adn some real good smallies dad caught 4 over 4 lbs fnf this feb.. norris is a lake that used to be good and everyone kinda quit going and now its back to being good again....