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Report for February 16th, 2001
Fishing this week had area anglers encountering
some cooler weather and north wind. A few rainy days were thrown in
there too and it seemed like a little bit of winter is still making its
presence known.
Crappie anglers are still finding fish, however, and last weekend
some decent stringers were reported by anglers working the main lake
ledges. Depths of 18 to 25 feet were producing most of the fish in the
Paris Landing area while some crappie were being caught in 12 foot
depths and less in the upper Big Sandy basin.
Live shiner minnows were accounting for some good fish as anglers
used bottom bumping rigs to stalk the deep stumps and brush along the
sandbars. Jigs were working too and a variety of colors were fooling
fish into striking. Such color combos as pink/pearl, red/chartreuse,
yellow/chartreuse and blue/chartreuse were successful and some anglers
were using the skirts on painted leadheads too.
Local angler Jim "breezy" Breeden has been finding some
good numbers of crappie on pal Merle Greenway's spots and taking Mac
Brown and the "drum king" Leon Rogers with him to help catch
them. They have boated a lot of fish in the 20-foot zone using jigs.
The florescent colors of orange, red, green and white on the
leadheads are popular among the ranks of deep water crappie anglers this
time of year, even with the loud colored plastic hollow body skirts.
Other anglers prefer a hair jig where the skirt is hand tied to
the hook shank and leadhead. The hair jigs hold scent good and also stay
attached when short strikes occur or anglers snag. However, the plastic
tube style jigs give anglers the freedom to quickly change jig colors.
Bass action has been slow and is in need of some warmer weather.
Surface temperatures this week were running in the 38 to 42 degree
range. Lake elevation in the Paris Landing area was 354.8 and rising
slowly.
Look for crappie fishing to hold up well for anglers working the
deeper dropoffs where submerged structure can be found. Also the deep
brushpiles and stakebeds should begin producing too.
Lake levels will likely be on the rise this next week due to all
the rain that's fallen throughout the TVA valley recently. That may also
stimulate some fish to move to somewhat shallow depths this next week as
stained water is likely due to recent runoff.
Watch the weather and take advantage of those days when the wind
is
light and variable.
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