I don't know a thing about fishing rivers man... I am going to conquer the
Cumberland one day!


"LedBelly" wrote in message
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It was an awesome weekend, thanks for having me Charles.

Fished Cheatam lake in the new boat (98 stratos, 16', 75hp) on Sunday.
Flipped a jig at wood in the backwaters and creeks, C-rigged here and
there, nothing. Dritfed tubes, crawled worms, flipped and hopped jigs
on the river, nothing. I took along some meal worms my son and I used
a few weeks ago, so I decided to drift them under a float and go for a
world record bluegill. Was on a nice bank on the river channel, downed
timber, about 45 degree banks, chunk rock, pea gravel.. anything a
fish could want. Within 15 minutes 3 bass to the boat one being a
measuring fish at 14", which was a blast on 4lb test.

I think theres plenty of good bass in Cheatham, but the usual tactics
aren't gonna put them in the boat. Any advice on fishing river
currents would be greatly appreciated..




On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 20:47:53 -0600, "Charles B. Summers"
wrote:

Well, if the fish were biting it could have been a little better.

I met Joshuall and his buddy at Percy Priest yesterday morning, and had
already picked up Robby at K-Mart. Josh was down from Chicago and wanted
to
meet at 6:00am. The weather was absolutely beautiful with clear skies and
70
degree weather. We fished until about 2:00pm before I had to leave. Only
caught one bass and a rock bass, both taken on a powerworm, but missed a
good fish on three different occasions. Robby switched over to bream and
crappie for the last hour of the day and was doing pretty well.

Everything was tight to cover/structure as I would have expected for a
clear
day, and there were a TON of other anglers out. The crappie guys were
everywhere too, but they were having a better day than us bassers.

Water temps started in the 50's and before noon had climbed up to 60
degree.
The water was as clear as I think I've ever seen it. The bass should be
getting ready to spawn any day now. As long as they don't raise the
lake...
they'll be very easy to spot.

With the water level down about 6', I've really discovered how much I
enjoy
having a good GPS with lake detail. We were able to run way up river
without
incident. Sometimes, being 5' off course would have ended the day and
left
me trolling back the 10 miles back to the ramp. Unfortunately, one guy
found
out the hard way. We could hear the damage from a half mile away.
Hopefully
he had an extra prop on board.

Next week is Center Hill!

Oh yeah... next Sunday at 1:00 central, OLN is showing the FLW event on
Old
Hickory.