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The KidBronze AmbassadorSpecies
Largemouth BassTechniqueTexas Rigs (Worming)SeasonSummerStructureMatted GrassHad a blast practicing for upcoming tourney. Found around grass on Texas rigged mag II zoom worms mega bass spinner baits did the job as well. If you watch Jason Christie’s videos on FF minnow “it catches everything” he’s not lying I caught large mouth around grass, smallies on ledges. I saw something strangely big on live scope casted at it and it was on stripping drag jumping the whole 9 ended up being an over 4’ long nose gar not exactly what I was after but me and the kid had a blast with it. If you don’t have any FF minnows rest assure Omnia does get them before I buy all the stick up and keep for myself.
Lon YearyBronze AmbassadorSpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueSpinnerbaitsSeasonSummerStructureSubmerged VegetationFishing in and around the submergent grass clumps yielded good numbers of fish with a spinnerbait as well as flipping the edges of the clumps with a Texas rig.
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueDamiki RigSeasonSummerStructureBaitfish
Find the bait find the bass
Omnia Community MemberBronze AmbassadorSpecies
Smallmouth BassTechniqueSoft Body Swimbaits (Small/Medium)SeasonSpring (Pre-Spawn)StructureDam
Junebug bankmaster6 Bronze AmbassadorSpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueMedium Diving Crankbaits (7'-12')SeasonSummerStructureBaitfish- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueGrass JigsSeasonSummerStructurePoints
I found a ton of fish but the lack of current made the outing a typical Tennessee river experience. Without current the Tennessee river is fame or famine but I was able to catch a 3 lbs largemouth early and later in the day I caught four smallmouth and five spotted bass. My biggest player of the day was definitely the drop shot.
- SpeciesLargemouth BassTechniqueWacky RigsSeasonSummerStructureLaydowns
The typical grass patches you would normally find on this lake are quite the rarity, so you will need to look for additional ways to find bass. While fishing, there wasn't really any current pull from the dams, so the ledge bite was really hard to target. Fishing was tough and water was calm; but I found success using weedless wacky rigs on laydowns and heavy vegetation before the heavy heat of the day.
- SpeciesSmallmouth BassTechniqueNed RigsSeasonSummerStructureBaitfish
We caught 6 smallmouth, all between 1 and 2 1/2 pounds on Green pumpkin ned rigs. We were fishing a gravel bank where an active shad spawn was going on. After that, once the sun came up, we could not buy a bass bite, shallow or deep. Picked up a small sauger on a pink TRD ...
