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Approaching Slapdome: These Kentucky Lake crappie are quite slabs, but they are good fish and are beginning to bite near the mouth of creeks and in some creeks in the New Johnsonville area. Many fish are still deep, but look for some fish to go shallow. Guide Bob Latendresse caught these in Birdsong in about 7 feet of water, but he caught more on the main river channel in 7 to12 feet of water fishing Mid-South tubes on 1/16th-ounce lead head jigs.

Crappie Are Finally Waking Up

by Vernon Summerlin

Angler and Fishy Dishes Chef

 

            Kentucky Lake guide Bob Latendresse (731-220-0582) put Doug Markham and me on some crappie and bass a couple of weeks ago. Bob says that crappie are suspended right now and not associated with cover but anglers trolling and spider rigging are catching them. The places to fish when they turn on are Beaver Dam Creek, Eva and Birdsong Creek.


We caught small bass and stripe where the newly
configured Johnsonville Steam Plant’s discharge enters the lake. I thought that new design would not attract fish like it used to but maybe I’m wrong. I’ll have to fish it a few more times through the year to see. Usually stripers, stripe and bass feed on baitfish attracted to the warm water area. (in the photo: Kentucky Lake Guide Bob Latendresse very happy to see the crappie are coming to life as the waters slowly begin to slow--see this week’s fish report)


We also caught crappie and brassy bass across the river at the refuge discharge area. This is usually an active site and it was but it was difficult getting anything to bite there.


According to Bob the crappie will begin hitting as soon the water warms a little. They’re ready to hit the shallows and do their spring thing.


Doug and I fished below Cheatham Dam recently and only one angler we talked with caught enough stripe to make the trip worthwhile. It was the first time I’ve been skunked in years (I’m a legend for putting something in the boat – yeah, right!). Doug landed four good-sized stripe and one runt – I was mortified that he beat me!


            Monday I fished by myself below Old Hickory Dam with about the same results. When the weather was real cold, anglers were catching some nice walleye. Now this is the time of year for the stripe to be active there but I saw only one caught from the bank. Very slow for everyone.


At three o’clock I pulled out my secret weapon. It worked and I began to catch fish at the mouth of the first creek on the right going downstream from the dam. Worms work – I only caught bream but they surly were good at supper last night.


After I’ve been skunked like below Cheatham Dam, I start over with techniques that will bring my confidence back. So I bought a box of nightcrawlers (mainly hoping to catch a walleye on a Crawler Hauler Rig). I put a third of a crawler on a bream hook, cast it under a float into the mud line at the creek’s mouth.


I was rewarded with an instant hit. I kept half of the 20 I caught.


Fried bream take me back to my childhood in south Alabama – nibbling the crisp fins off the fish and then pulling the sweet meat from the bones - yum. It turned out to be a good thing that other species were ignoring my offerings because bream taste terrific.


And they are an easy species to catch; so get a child hooked on fishing – start with bream. It’s memory that stays with children; ask any adult if they rember their first catch.

           

Here’s a survey of the top brands anglers bought in 2009: 60 percent of anglers targeted largemouth bass - the number freshwater species.

  1. ■Top rod: Shakespeare Ugly Stik (16.4% of all purchases)

  2. ■Top reel: Shimano (23.0% of all purchases)

  3. ■Top rod and reel combo: Shakespeare (25.7% of all purchases)

  4. ■Top lines: Pure Fishing’s Berkley line (Trilene, Fireline, Big Game, Vanish) (42.6% of all purchases)

  5. ■Top hard bait: Rapala (30.6% of all purchases)

  6. ■Top soft bait: Zoom (16.8% of all purchases)

  7. ■Top spinner bait: Strike King (16.6% of all purchases)

  8. ■Top hook: Eagle Claw (34.5% of all purchases)

  9. ■Top sinker: Bullet Weight (19.0% of all purchases)

  10. ■Top fish finder/sonar: Humminbird (42.9% of all purchases)

  11. ■Top tackle box: Plano (55.8% of all purchases)

 

            I finally finished my 50 Fishy Dishes cookbook. If you’re interested in a copy email me at vsummerlin@comcast.net. Happy Hooking!