Pickwick Report

Joined
Mar 28, 2011
Location
Pickwick Dam Tn
#1
Bass fishing in Pickwick is great on day and can be slow the next.
Just when you think you have them located for the next day the
weather will change enough to throw you off. Your best bet is to
start early around daylight which is around 5:20am until 6am and
try throwing a buzz bait on shallow points and over grassy flats. If
you are fishing a grassy area also try fishing with a plastic frog,
they are very weedless and one the best baits you can choose in
thick grass. After the top water bite is over use a Strike King
Series 3 crank bait, I have caught a lot of fish lately on Splatter
Back and Citrus Shad colored Strike Kin Crank Baits. From
6am through 9am throw the Strike King Crank Bait along bluffs
and drop offs. The Series 3 baits will only run approx 8' and I
have caught a lot of fish in 20' of water on the crank baits
because the fish are suspended in the depth that the seires 3 runs.
During the morning hours also throw a carolina rig, Rage Tail
Green Pumpkin Lizards are working well. Deep water humps and
ledges are accounting for most the big fish caught throughout the
day. Seires 6 XD Crank Baits are catching a lot of the fish in the
deep water. Fish along river channels in 15-25' with a Series 6
XD when you locate a few good fish also try a 1oz spinner bait.
It is really tough on the weekends because all the local deep
water well known spots are taken and soon to be taken after one
boat leaves, so looking for new deep water structure would be a
good thing to do.
Stripers
The majority of stripers are deep. To catch them we have been
using 3oz sinkers on 3way swivels. The only live bait to use is live
skipjack minnows that you catch yourself in the river when they
are present. The skipjack minnows have been easy to catch right
over the last two weeks. A lot of the fish we have caught on the
skipjack minnows have been over 10 pounds. I am used to
catching at least ten stripers on a slow day and it is not unusual to
catch fifty stripers on half day trips. If the fish come up on the
surface I am likely to catch several fish in a short period of time. I
am seeing a few more bank fishermen catch fish, when I am able
to watch them, it looks as though the bank fishermen are catching
a lot of fish.
Catfish
I caught skip jack and fished with them with a one once sinker on
the bottom in around 20' of water for catfish over the last two
weeks. It did not seem to matter if the bait was alive or dead,
unlike striper fishing where the baits really needs to be alive.

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