7 Gates a Spilling!

[jdmidwest]

I was able to squeak out a day trip to Pickwick on Sat.  I caught a rock, buddy caught a leaf.

Story of my life this fall.  Day after a ripping front and lots of water.  TN has the second wettest year on record this year.  Pickwick was putting thru 148,000 cfs on Sat.  Launched out of Yellow Creek and fished that arm for a while.  Ventured out on main lake and run up a ways.  Water was muddy and current was strong.  But, they were keeping the main lake at winter pool, so falling water turned them off.  Pulled out and went below on the river.  Fished the walls for sauger then down river for bass.  A rigs, Jerk Baits, Tube Jigs, Cranks, Jigs tipped with Power Bait trailers, we hammered them all. Nuttin.

Did marvel at the workmanship on the point marker for Yellow Creek.  Don't know what the fellows at TVA were doing when they made it.  Looks like they kept stacking the base and it kept falling off the shelf.  Made a pile and then balanced the last one.  Low water reveals many funny things.

[Terrierman]

With water like that, the big blue catfish were likely the deal.  But you need the right stuff for them.  Fresh cut bait on a big circle hook in a 30' deep hole behind wood or something else to make an eddy.

[jdmidwest]

Catfish boats were not out in that.  They were out in force in Oct.  They even had a derby one weekend I was down. 

That point marker and the river above produced some great catfish a few years ago while we were bass fishing with Tube Jigs.  It is an excellent place to catch cats.  We have done so many times.