Old Hickory Lake Bass Fishing Reports

[MotherNature]

I fished today with Scott and Mike Kasick of Franklin Tennessee on Old Hickory Lake. Action got off to a little slower start than Monday but we used a little patience in one area where we have been catching a lot of bass and it finally paid off. The bait fish moved in and like turning a switch on we were on fish. For the day we caught and released 47 Largmouth-4 Big Crappie and a Sauger.  We had 12 keeper Largemouth and no picture size fish. 44 of the bass were caught on the Speed Trap and everything else on a spinner bait. Scott and Mike  Thanks for a good trip your great to fish with and I look forward to the next one.

Rick McFerrin

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Old Hickory June 2-04
All I can say about the morning that my youngest son Daniel and I had on Old Hickory is WOW!!!!! The top water bite was explosive and when that died down the Crankbait bite kicked in. Daniel and I managed to catch and released  61 Largemouth and 2 white bass in a short 6 hour period between 5:00am and 11:00am with the vast majority of the fish actually being caught in the first 4 hours on the lake. Recently I found a shallow bar that is about 2 foot deep on top that runs better than 75 yards or so that is flanked on one side with 4 foot water and on the other with 10 foot. These fish have been holding on the crest of the bar somewhere up and down the 75 yard span. Today almost before the Fluke would settle in the water a largemouth would nail it so hard they would almost hook themselves.  Daniel and I just continued to work the bar back and forth over and over.  We also caught several fish in other parts of the lake on the same baits. By 11:00am the sun was beginning to bare down so we packed it up and headed home. I don't guess I got more than 5 miles from the lake when Daniel was sound asleep. Great day with my son....great day on the water...what more could a dad ask for.........Rick

[Jared LeBlue]

Awesome trip and to have a trip like that with your son had to make it even better.

[MotherNature]

Fished the Hick w/ my wife for her birthday. We started around 5:30 AM in Spencer Creek and ended up w/ 6 fish on Flukes. No fish on Crank's in Spencer Creek. Moved down the river and fished some new millfoil I found a couple of weeks ago. Pulled 6 out of there that were reall nice quality fish in the 16-17 inch range. Mover to the steam Plant and I missed a really good fish off the flats as well as did my wife. We ended up w/ 29 fish out of the Steam Plant and 41 for the day. We even managed 2 double ups, and she had 6 fish w/ 6 casts. Not to bad for a first timer using worms. Best 5 was around 9-10 pounds. Nothing huge, just good quality fish. All fish were released unharmed. It looled like the lake was being drawn down while were fishing. It had gotten lower by the time we left oround 11:30. Hope this helps. Lip'm and let'm loose.....Shay Doming  Tennessee Bass Guides

Reports Compliments of Mike Dial

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A double report for both Sunday and Monday on Old Hickory. Had a trip with good friend Brian Durdin on Sunday. The day produced 33 largemouth with 11 keeper fish. The largest was a five pounder giving us about 13 pounds in the largest five fish. Lots of solid fish but only one good one. Crankbaits flukes and worms on shallow feeding flats was the key.
Had a great trip yesterday with Mr. Meade, 29 fish and several more that released themselves on there on good behavior. Worms and cranks mostly for these. Fish are still shallow and we are actively searching for some of those post spawn females. God bless hope it helps.

Jon Simmons
Tennesee Bass Guides

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Jon Simmons and I had a super time fishing with a great family from Oklahoma City on Old Hickory Lake today. Annie & Terry Haney-James Romo and Bob Brown drove 12 straight hours from Oklahoma City to Nashville yesterday arriving in Nashville late last night and still got up and met us at the ramp about 15 minutes before daylight. Talk about troopers. Action started out steady and remained that way up until we loaded the boats at 11:00am. All our fish are still coming out of 5 foot of water or less and today seemed a little more scattered than they have been recently.  All were caught on one of 3 baits (1) Fluke (2) Speed Trap (3) Shallow Shad Rap.  Over the 6 hours of fishing beteen the 2 boats we caught and released over 60 largemouth with 20 keepers. We thought Bob had hung THE BASS of the day but it turned out to be a 10lb Catfish. Annie-Terry-Bob and James all caught some good solid fish and everyone had a great time. Plans are already being made for a return fishing trip next year about the same time when they are here again for a family reunion. Jon and I look forward to fishing with you again...

Rick McFerrin
http://www.tennesseebassguides.com

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OHL 6/11/04
I met up w/ fellow guide Jon Simmons today and started looking for some schooling fish on flats. It wasn't long before we found what we were looking for. It was perfect conditions, over cast, low winds, and good looking water next to deeper water. By 8AM we were in the fish pretty heavy. There schooling fish were hitting on flukes, Zara spooks, and Pop-R's in a shad color. What a blast!! There were at least 8-10 fish that were hooked up and came un buttoned thet were in the 2-3 pound class not to mention the other dozen or so that were missed due to bad hook-ups or the fish spitting out the lure b/f we could set the hook. Again as Rick as mentioned in prior reports, these fish are still coming out of water less than 5 ft. deep. Between the schooling fish and the other fish that were caught in Spencer ,Station Camp, and the Steam Plant, we brought 70 plus fish over the rail by 11AM.

JPP 6/11/04
Fished Priest for a few hours out of 4 corners from 5PM-midnight. Fish activity was a little slow. Had 1 on a Carolina rig in Suggs, and the others came off deep drops near the main lake channel on worms T.rigged. Tried a black Spinner bait and red crank bait, no luck!!
Total fish brought in was 5, nothing huge. Had one that was around 2.5#'s.

JPP 6/12/04
Fished club Tourney in the pouring rain until it was called off due to the lightening and rough water. Fished around Poole Knob and we had 5 fish w/ one keeper @ 15.5 inches on a Senko. Our fish came in water b/t 2-3 feet.

Wheeler 6/13/04
Left the house @ 3AM for Wheeler, picked partner up around 3:45AM. Put boat in @6AM and off to one of our honey holes, Lilly Pads!!! There were bass running shad all over in the pads. Fished the pads just about all day. We both had fish on that went over 6lbs. easily, but managed to get wrapped up in the pads b/f we could get to them. Those are some mean bass back in them pads. They would pop our Sluggos on the pad and wait for us to pull it off and nail it w/ all they had. We threw buzzers, but no hits like those sluggos!!! Folks let me tell you, If you want some great top water action right now, give me a call and you will also be able to experience the same thing my partner and I did. We had 15 fish that were good quality fishand about another 20 that were not able to be caught due to getting tangled in the pads or setting the hook too soon. When fishing these pads one has to let the fish run w/ the bait and set the hok as hard as possible. I even let the fish have line @ times and then set the hook. I will be back out there this week to bring in another report from this wonderful Lake.

All fish were released unharmed on all trips. Lip'm and let'm loose.......Shay Doming Tennessee Bass Guides

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Put in around 07:30 and fished upper and lower ends of the lake and ended up w/ 27 fish for the day,8 of them would have kept, w/ the best 5 aound 13 #'s. All fish were caught on a flippn tube and on top water. The top water bite was really great when I got there, but tapered off around 10:30-11:00. I missed several good fish on a Pop-R. They just wouldn't hang on to it. Cloud cover and rain kept the fish hanging around the top chasing shad. I did see several schools of fish running shad off points in about 18-20 ft of water. All fish were released unharmed. Lip'm and let'm loose......Shay Doming Tennesseebassguides.com

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Yesterday Daniel and I had the privilege fishing with a good friend Mr. Timothy Ford.  I was excited to get to the lake because the weather forecast was perfect. Rain-heavy clouds and the mid 70's. Action started out quickly and stayed rather constant throughout the day. We fished from 5:00am until  2:30pm and put 60 largemouth in the boat. All were released unharmed. We fished 11 spots upriver and found fish on all 11. Most of our fish were caught  in 5 foot of water or less. We caught fish on a variety of baits from the Luhr-Jensen Speed Trap-Zoom Fluke-Bitsy Bug and a 200 series Bandit. Water conditions were good and temp's ran in the 80 degree range.  One quick story on Daniel. Daniel made a great cast over a fallen log with the Speed Trap and appeared to get hung as he cranked the bait back. I looked over at him-his rod was bent and then the drag began to scream! For a brief period of time Daniel had on a huge Largemouth that would very easily had been his first trophy bass. To much excitement and not enough experience took it's toll this time. When he got up this morning he said Daddy "I dreamed about that big fish getting away last night!" Let's go back this week and try to find him again. 8 years old and he is hooked already. Another great day on Old Hickory.....Rick

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Yesterday Jon and I fished with seperate clients on Old Hickory and our results were almost the same. Jon had 25 largemouth with 9 keeper fish...Jim Barber and I had 25 largemouth with 7 keeper fish. We fished through severaL rounds of HEAVY (let me say again) HEAVY RAINS. It was the slowest day we have had on Old Hickory for some time now and the fish were scattered. It was interesting that there was almost zero bait activity which is unusual lately. All fish were caught between daylight and 11:00am when we both loaded the boats for home. I fish O.H. again today I'll give you a update this week end.....Rick Mcferrin Tennessee Bass Guides



Made it out to the Hick again, for what I thought would be perfect conditions. Started around 7:30 AM in Spencer Creek and had 7 fish off grass patches. Moved to the end of spencer Creek and noticed a lot of bait activity, so I stopped and fish for about an hour, and picked up 6 more chunky fish, 9:30 AM. I figured since Rick and Jon were bothe out doing trips, I would not fish the areas they were probably going to be in, so I headed for new water and ran down river from the rain. I did manage to p/u 23 fish out of the steam plant w/ one @ 19 inches on the nose. Left the steam plant and headed toward Spring Creek, but something drew me to a cut off the main channel that looked like it could have some good potential. Well it did. That cut gave up 5 nice healthy fish in the 16-18 inch range. i did't have much time b/f the weather caught up to me, and I ran for shelter until it was over. Total catch for the day was 41. Best 5 was around 12-14 lb. All fish were caught on a zoom fluke,pop-R, rattle trap, flippn tube, lizards and worms, and a Secret weapon spinner bait. All fish were released unharmed for another day of fighting. Lip'm and let'm loose..........Shay Doming Tennessee Bass Guides

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I fished Old Hickory today with Tim Provo from San Francisco California who will be moving to the middle Tennessee area after retirement. Tim and I fished 3 creeks today and experienced fish being scattered in each creek. Action started off slowly catching most of our fish on a Fluke-working it just about as slow as you could work it. As we progressed up into the morning I decided to change to a top water bait and selected a ghost colored Heddon Tiny Torpedo and immediately the action picked up. This same type of pattern happened last year in July around the various grass beds that we were fishing. Lately the Fluke bite has been either vicious or extremely light-when this happens try changing to some type of medium to small top water prop bait. I was using the jerk and pause retrieve and the largemouth would unload on the bait and would have both sets of trebles firmly attached. What started out to be a slow day finished rather strong with over 40 largemouth coming over the rail for the day. No real big fish but several good ones and a whole lot of top water fun. Tim your a good fisherman and a great guy to be out with-I look forward to our next trip.

Rick McFerrin

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Jon Simmons and I teamed up with Mr. Pat Camm-Mr. John Jones and Mr. Glenn Gentry on Old Hickory June 29th  for what turn out to be a fairly tough day on the water. For most of the day we had mile high sky's-no wind and scattered fish. Totals for the two boat combination was 40 largemouth with 15 of the fish being in the keeper category and a couple running in the 3  pound range.  For the first time on Old Hickory my partner fished solely with a fly rod which was very interesting catching several bass on flies that he tied himself. The majority of the fish were caught on crankbaits in water less than 5 feet relating to a variety of structure. Pat-Jon & Glenn we had a great time hopefully the bass will be more cooperative the next time around.

A big thanks to Mike Dial for the report!
Laurie

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What a difference a day makes!!! Yesterday Jon and I struggled to catch 40 bass between our two boats. Today under a good cloud cover and moderate winds Mike Shirley (Murfeesboro)-Bud Morton (Atlanta) and I caught 36 Largemouth and would have had well over 50 if we put everything in the boat that we hung. Today the fish were far more bunched up and far more eager to slam a variety of different baits that we used. We caught fish on  White Buzz Baits-Speed Traps-Shallow Shad Rap's-Flukes and Tiny Torpedo's. The majority of our fish were relating to the grass and all came out of 5 feet of water or less. Wind seems to be playing more of an importance than it has over the last couple summers. Looking at my log's from last year we caught fish steadily throughout the summer with little to no wind, but it's doesn't seem to be the case so far this year. My suggestion is try to utilize what wind there is to your advantage. If you have fished an area that you know fish has been on and you don't do any good-try it again if the wind picks up in that area...it has worked for me on several trips so far this summer. Hope this helps.

A Big thanks to Rick McFerrin for this report!
Laurie

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I fished Old Hickory today with the father son team of Jerry a Marty Hall from Fayetteville Tennessee. At day light we had a fairly heavy fog and the action got started out slow. But as the fog lifted the action picked up some and by the end of the day we had a 30 fish day with many lost. Bait of the day by far was the Speed Trap and Shallow Shad Rap. Once again the fish were scattered and not particularly aggressive. The largest fish of the day (which were very aggressive) was 2 big flat head catfish that slammed the crankbait-not the right species but fun none the less. All and all not a bad day and it was great to see Jerry and Marty together. Marty just returned from Afghanistan and is home on a short leave before being deployed to Iraq. Marty I want to thank you for your commitment that you have made to keep us free here in the United States. You and all the soldiers deployed in foreign countries are in our prayers and thoughts everyday. When you get back home give me a call, I'll take you fishing again and the trip will be on me.

Thanks go out to Rick McFerrin for his great reports!

[MotherNature]

For those of you that visit our site that might not be familiar with Old Hickory Lake, at normal pool the lake has an area of 22,500 acres and a shore line of 440 miles. All the way from Old Hickory Lock and Dam at Old Hickory Tennessee to the Cordell Hull Lock and Dam located in Carthage Tennessee the lake provides an almost unlimited variety of structure for the Largemouth Bass fisherman. If you like to fish current Old Hickory has it. If you like to fish channel drops Old Hickory has it. If you like to fish wood or grass Old Hickory has it. The lake for several years now has literally been a bass factory for those that take time to unlock some of it's secretes. There are times when the shear number of bass that you can catch in a day is almost unbelievable. It's not uncommon if you know the lake to catch 30-40-50 or more bass of all sizes in a eight hour period. It is also not uncommon if your looking for big fish to find a few  of them as well. It's fun to catch a bunch of bass "But" it's also fun to look for just a big fish bite. That was the mind set my youngest son (Daniel) and I had for our trip today on Old Hickory. We decided to roll the dice and see what would happen. We launched our boat at 5:15am and loaded back up at 2:30pm. In that 9 hour period we had just 12 bites and managed to put 10 in the boat. The good news is that all 10 were nice fish-the bad news is one of the bass we lost was a legitimate monster! There's nothing like seeing a big fish come up and attack a "Big Buzz Bait" or a "Big Spinner Bait" (like the Secret Weapon Spinnerbait pictured) ran just under the water surface. I have to admit that going hour or more between bites can seem awful long at times. And keeping a 9 year old focused that long isn't easy either. But when a bass like the one's that Daniel is holding comes up and blasts your bait those in between hours just don't seem as long. As much as I like to use light line-today wasn't the day for it. Every fish we caught came out of thick heavy cover in  4 feet of water or less, and all were very aggressive. I hope this will help you on your next trip to Old Hickory.....Rick McFerrin Owner/Guide Tennessee Bass Guides.com

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This is going to be a combination report for the last three days. I have just  had a new computer built and have been struggling with some of the new software-so here go's I hope it all works. On Wednesday the 22nd I fished with Mr. Jason Anthoine and Mrs. Heather Coulombe of Atlanta . Jason and I had fished together on August 28-2004 and had a great trip (see report below) But today was a different story. Most of the creeks that I have been fishing up river were very muddy and the action was very slow. Jason-Heather and I tried just about everything we knew to do-but almost to no avail. We boated three keeper largemouth which is about as bad of a day I have had on Old Hickory for a very long time. I must admit I went home a whipped puppy. But as it happens on Old Hickory things can turn around fairly quickly which is what happen on Thursday when I fished with Tommy and Robbie Gill from Baton Rouge. I decided to fish a different area of the lake and as it turned out it was a good choice. Things started out slow but we finally got on a crankbait and tube pattern in the middle portion of the creeks. Tommy and Robbie are holding the largest fish we caught and released yesterday and as it turned out it was by far better than Wednesday. Friday Tommy-Robbie and I fished Tim's Ford and had a pretty fair day considering the blue bird skies and no wind. We caught and released several Smallmouth-Spots and Largemouth plus a walleye and a channel cat fish. All these fish we were caught on a tube-crankbait and a tiny torpedo. All these folks I fished with this week were just great......

Thanks to each....Rick McFerrin

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Old Hickory Lake 9-28-04

I hI have been trying for two years to get Tennessee Bass Guide Billy Campbell to fish with me on Old Hickory and yesterday I finally succeeded. With water surface temps in the mid 70's and a good overcast sky and a North East wind headed us back up the river to the areas that had been so productive for me prior to the last influx of muddy water we experienced two weeks ago. I was happy to see these areas are almost back to the normal water color-but we had one very noticeable problem right away. "NO BAIT FISH".  As many of you know Billy guides Center Hill for TBGI,  and in the right time of the year loves to throw a little bait made by one of our sponsors the famous "BUCKEYE SHAD"  Billy tied on a chartreuse Buckeye while I was hard at work with my Bleeding Shad and Fire tiger crankbaits. Billy was the first to put a good 4lb largemouth in the boat and several other smaller fish. As action slowed down to a complete stop, I headed the boat back down the river and into some other areas that has been producing in the mid-lake region. To make a long story short over the course of the day we landed 16 Largemouth with 4 being keeper fish that weighed in around 11lbs. And before Billy can get on our fish report board and tell on me I'll do tell on myself...I lost another fish in the 5-6lb range that almost knocked the rod out of my hands...How can a fish hit so hard and still get away! Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda-but if this fish was just 5lbs we would have had 5 fish in the 16lb range for the day. We are getting ready to do an extensive Lure Review on the BUCKEYE SHAD. Billy is going to share with us some interesting techniques and tips. This bait will be coming into it's own in the next few weeks and you don't want to miss the scoop on this fantastic little bait..I just love learning some of Billy's secrets!.....Rick McFerrin

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Old Hickory Oct 13-04

I hI had the pleasure of fishing with Bill Johnston and his grandson David today on Old Hickory Lake. This was the second time this year that we have fished together The first outing was this summer when it got so hot that we quit early. Today was the opposite with air temps in the high 50's low 60's rain and 15mph wind out of the Northwest.  Our first stop was in the same area that has been giving up some good fish over the past several weeks and today was no exception the only difference this time was they were holding extremely tight to cover and it took pitching a worm to put them in the boat. We also caught fish on the Luhr-Jensen Speed Trap and a Case Fluke. For the day we landed 10 Largemouth and 1 White Bass. All in all we had a good day together and you will never fish with a finer person than Mr. Johnston. Off for a little vacation the rest of the week with my family. I will have more Old Hickory updates several days next week.......Rick McFerrin Tennessee Bass Guides

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I spent the day yesterday fishing with one of my sponsors and good friend Mr. Joe Haubenreich President of Secret Weapon Spinnerbaits. We met at Flippers at 6:15am the lake was up and dingy with all the logs-trash and debris floating in the water that you would every want to deal with. My strategy was to run back up toward the 231 bridge but with all the trash in the water I opted to stay close. We started the day off by loosing two big fish...one largemouth and one striper on a worm and a crankbait. As the day progressed the bite never really picked up until I found actively feeding fish in one very small area. We finally boated 10 largemouth-Joe is holding the two largest.  I'll be on Old Hickory for the next 3 days and will keep you updated.
Rick McFerrin Tennessee Bass Guides

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Old Hickory

W  Way To Go Shay!!!!! TBGI Guide Shay Doming had a much better day on Old Hickory Saturday than I experienced the two days prior. Shay and a friend from Murfreesboro caught and released 14 largemouth fishing from 11:00am to 6:00pm on Luhr-Jensen Speed Traps-Secret Weapon SpinnerBaits-Worms-Flukes and a Jig. Naturally since Shay is one of the TBGI guides we share information freely one to another. It seems that several of the fish that Shay caught came from some of the same areas that were dormant the two days prior. That just prove that on Old Hickory you just have to have that "I won't give up" attitude.  I have seen this happen more than once over the years and it can get discouraging when you have a couple tough trips in a row.....Don't get discouraged just keep working. One suggestion that Shay wanted to pass along was to change up on your lure retrieves. Don't fall into the chunk and wind pit...vary your speed-twitch your rod..yo-yo your baits when times are tough, it just might make "That" difference.......Good Job Shay

Rick McFerrin
Tennessee Bass Guid

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Old Hickory Oct 25-04

I fished today with Mr. Don Leach and Mr. Larry Leach from Indiana. A cold front moved into middle Tennessee mid day Sunday and left us with 47 degree air temps at 6:00am-no clouds-no wind just blue bird sky's. We finally found fish in two locations chasing shad and managed to catch 10 total for the day on rattle traps. These fish were so shallow that the trolling motor would kick up mud and you had to stay as far off of these fish as possible so that they wouldn't spook. One good thing about the fish we caught was that 6 of the 10 were keeper fish-no monsters, with the largest weighing 2 3/4lbs. It shall get better-I'll keep you posted.....Rick McFerrin Tennessee Bass Guides

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Old Hickory Oct 30-04

No fog, allot of overcast and wind was the ticket today for Cory Smith and Lee Gray today on Old Hickory. We caught well over 20 bass (7 Keepers)-4 Walleye's and one Stripe today on Case Super Salty's-Luhr-Jensen Speed Traps-Secret Weapon Spinner Baits-and jigs.  Cory had a couple heavy fish on  tossing a jig but both of them pulled off. It's good to see the fluke type bite back on and they would hammer the bait. The bite stayed constant in two different creeks and all the fish came out of very shallow water. All and all a good day with two very nice gentlemen. Lee the next time you come be sure to bring your full body armor, those jigs come out of the trees from every where.   Rick McFerrin Tennessee Bass Guides

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Old Hickory 11-5-04

TBGI guide Jon Simmons and I fished Old Hickory today with 3 great guys from Hendersonville, Mr. John Zobl, Rick Dalton and Ron Patterson. This was the first morning that we needed to dress "Warm" this fall and the run up lake was a chilly one. Things got off to a slow start but as the day warmed up we were able to find several good fish scattered in various creeks. There was allot of bait in these creeks but we saw very little action in them. We caught fish on Jigs-Secret Weapon Spinnerbaits early but as the day warmed the Buckeye Shad and Luhr-Jensen Speed trap was the ticket. I don't believe that we caught two fish from the same spot-everything was scattered all day. With the weather warming up over the next couple days action should pick up dramatically on Old Hickory. John Zobl had the hot hand today with the Speed Trap and put us all to same...Way To Go John!...There was just one problem...John  keeps swearing that the fish in the net is really a mutant strain of exotic bass that swam up from the gulf and managed to lock through into Old Hickory...John........ Rick and I know better-but we will never tell any one.......Rick McFerrin Tennessee Bass Guides Inc.

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Old Hickory 12-18-04

sp  I had a great day on Old Hickory with my good friend Brian Durdin today. We started out from Bulls Creek with heavy heavy fog!!! Being unable to run we started cranking main river channel points that had slack areas away from the heavy current. We caught our first 5 fish which were all over 2 1/2 lbs with the 2 largest over 4 lbs on our first stop. We then made our way to the warm water of the steam plant where we ripped them on top water and crankbaits. Grand total for the day was 33 largemouth with 14 or more of them being over the 14 inch limit. We caught fish on shallow running crankbaits and soft plastic jerkbaits. What a great way to start the winter season. Since I'm off work for the Christmas break I will have more reports over the next couple weeks. There is still "LOTS" of debris floating in the river so be careful and ware your PFD'S. Just a quick tip. The fish are very concentrate now....if you caught one be sure to work the entire area out for more fish. God Bless and hope this helps....Jon Simmons Tennessee Bass Guides

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Old Hickory 12-21-04

What a great day to  on Old Hickory. Daniel and I arrived at the ramp at 8:45am this morning and headed immediately to the steam plant area. No fog-low 40's, clearing water, a fantastic top water bite and willing largemouth what more could you ask for. Tennessee Bass Guide Jon Simmons (picture left) was already in the steam plant canal and had caught 20 largemouth between daylight and 9:00am with the largest 5 weighing right at 13lbs. We settled in and immediately found fish in several areas.  The crankbait bite for us just wasn't there today but they would hammer a Salty Shad made by the Case Bait company (see link at bottom of this page) One thing I like about these baits versus competitive products is the weight of the bait. The Salty Shad is "Full" of salt and when you are fishing in high winds like today the extra weight comes in handy. I also believe that the fish will hold onto to he bait a little longer because of the salt. Jon, Daniel and I left Flippers right at  2:00pm.....Total for the day Jon caught 35 largemouth-Daniel and I caught 18..For a combined total of 53 Largemouth...The water between the 109 bridge all the way to the steam plant should continue to get better as winter set in.......Rick McFerrin Tennessee Bass Guides


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