A trip in the woods on Percy Priest

I got to sneak out of my house today to fish for a couple hours. I discovered a spot last September that is about 10 minutes of walking away from my house. I started using a 4.5 inch Go 2 Baits shaky worm. I hooked one on the first cast. It is still fun, even though it was only 14" long. I rigged the worm on a split shot rig. I caught two more on this rig before I wanted to try the bait rigged shaky head style. I tied on a Go 2 Baits signature "CJ's Shaky Head" in 1/8 ounce. I caught a small fry guarding male shaking is along the bottom. Then I remembered the  1/4 ounce sexy shad spinnerbait I put in my bag before I left. I tied it on and threw it next to a laydown with fry swarming everywhere. I got to see a largemouth come out of nowhere and CRUSH my bait. It is always fun watching them eat your bait. I got another fish on the spinner bait before I had to break it off. Then I tied on a watermelon with purple glitter trick worm rigged weightless texas rigged style. I caught one on it. I was paranoid about having a run in with a snake, so I went home to grab some dinner.

Go 2 Baits are 100% hand poured, insuring that the baits float. My favorite baits from them are 4.5" and 7" shaky worms, 10" and 13" paddle tail worms, 4.2" beaver bait, and a craw type bait. Also, be watching for a few more baits coming out. I have tested them out and they just flat out have action!

Bluegill fishing is picking up!

I went today to one of my favorite bluegill spots on Percy Priest Lake. I found a nest and caught 9 bluegills that were all bigger than 7 inches. Since I had enough for a couple sandwiches, I didn't keep any more. But that didn't mean I stopped catching them! The next few hours I put the hurtin' on them with my 2 pound test S.O.S. trout line, Shimano Sedona, 6 foot 6 sore lip series trout magnet rod, and bison and black trout magnets. My guess is I caught 150 total fish. I had a few giant bluegill spit the hook or break my 2 pound test in the rocks where I was fishing. Then the female bluegills moved in and I caught around 100 of those. I was not going to keep or give away female bluegills that were full of eggs because we need some bluegill to catch next year. There is nothing like hearing your drag going off for a few hours straight!


Some people will say there is no magical bait, and I agree with them. But there are some that are close. The trout magnet is one of them. I have caught just about every species of fish on them. And not just little fish too. Sure you will catch bigger bass on a 10 inch worm, but with the trout magnet you will catch little fish AND big fish. Catfish seem to live a trout magnet twitched over their house. If I was you I would order some trout magnets RIGHT NOW if you haven't already. They catch fish. Period. Just remember to use 2 pound test, and in clearer water use a flurocarbon leader.

Late April- May 13 bass fishing report

The past few weeks have been good to me fishing wise.  I have been catching them on Zoom baby brush hogs, Zoom 6 inch lizards, Zoom super flukes, Go 2 Baits 7 inch shaky worm, Strike King KVD 1.5 squarebill crankbaits, Hoppy's Lures 1/4 ounce jigs, and Academy brand spinnerbaits in 1/2 ounce white/chart. double willow spinnerbaits.

I went to an isolated bank fishing spot that not even most of the locals know about.  It is about a 10 minute hike down there from where I get dropped off at. The first day I went there I threw out once with a watermelon red texas rigged zoom lizard and caught a super chunky largemouth within the first minute of fishing. How many times does that happen when you are bass fishing? I proceded to catch 4 more in an hours time, but it seemed to have slowed down. Just then the fish started schooling and I picked up my rod with a weightless rigged super fluke and caught them one after another. I only caught 17 that day because I went through a pack of flukes in about 30 minutes. I decided that I was not going to run out next time so I bought 6 packs at the next Academy trip. The details of this trip was a 3/16 ounce bullet weight with a 4/0 gamakatsu EWG worm hook on it for the lizard. For the fluke I just tied a 4/0 EWG gamakatsu worm hook on my flurocarbon line.

The next trip was with my buddy on his boat. We caught 9 keeper crappie on crappie magnets and we decided to bass fish a bit. I picked up my Hoppy's lures flea flicker in black/blue. The day before I had super glued a black/blue paca chunk trailer on the jig. I got that familiar tink, tink, tink with the weight on my line and I swung away. When the fish jumped I called for the net seeing it was a smallie. It was 18 inches long and it weighed 2.5 pounds.

The next trip was on my jon boat. We didn't have a motor for it so I had to use a trolling motor and I even paddled a few hundred yards. I also got out and pushed the boat so we wouldn't use all out battery power. I decided that I was going to learn to use a spinnerbait so thats what I started using. I hung 7 nice ones on it before the day was over. The biggest was about 3 pounds. I threw the bait on 15 pound mono and on a H2O Express 7 foot MH Ethos rod with an Abu Garcia silver max reel in 6:4:1 gear ratio. The bait itself was a 1/2 ounce H2O Express 1/2 ounce small profile in white/chart. with double willows. I threw to cover (Chunk rocks and laydowns) and banged it off the cover. When I was done fishing the cover I would burn it back in trying to draw a reaction bite. I even threw my arsenal on plastics, including a Go 2 Baits shaky worm in 7 inch and 4.5 inch, a carolina rigged lizard, a texas rigged lizard and baby brush hog, and a Hoppy's flea flicker jig. Spinnerbaits outfished bottom hugging baits tremendously that day.