Trophy Fishing TN Forum - Caney Fork Trout Fly Fishing - Caney Fork Trout Guide
Warm Water Fishing Reports => East TN Lakes and Rivers => Topic started by: gaspergou on May 22, 2012, 02:06:33 PM
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Tried an E TN tailwater that has produced some decent browns in the past, gets a lot of bows dumped in it, and which sometimes has some big stripey bastards. The main river was low and surprisingly turbid, so I ran up an adjacent tailwater trib that was crystal clear and loaded with spots and stocker bows. Saw some spots that were much bigger than this one...
(http://i1238.photobucket.com/albums/ff496/ptychocheilus/P5210016.jpg)
No stripers, but I couldn't see bottom in the many deeper, heavily wooded pools... and with that many bows around I can't believe they aren't there yet. I got chased back to the ramp by some lightning; after letting that blow over I ran back up the main river hoping it would clear up further up. No dice. Did scrape up a decent LM.
(http://i1238.photobucket.com/albums/ff496/ptychocheilus/P5210019.jpg)
All in all, not a completely crappy day.
(http://i1238.photobucket.com/albums/ff496/ptychocheilus/P5210021.jpg)
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Nice fish Dude. I love catching spotted bass...they color up nice in clear water.
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Nice report. That is a sweet looking Spot and a nice LMB too.