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Old Hickory Lake Guide Service Fishing Report- 03/09/2015- 03/20/2015

Posted by ian on March 20, 2015

            

Spring is finally here and Old Hickory has really been fishing great! The bite has finally returned after several weeks of ice and snow melt compounded by heavy rainfall left the main river along with the creeks a mud bath. Everything is finally cleared up and the fishing is excellent.  The bass have started their annual migration towards their spawning grounds and are looking to feed up along the way. Water temps, depending on where you are, vary between mid to upper 40’s on the river and up to low 60’s in some creeks. Water clarity has finally returned with visibility being about 2-3 foot. The crappie bite has been somewhat inconsistent this week and I think it should be getting good here in the next several weeks.

As I said earlier the bass have begun their annual migration towards the shallows and are hungry.  By the day the fish are beginning to show up in their typical staging areas with a lot of smaller fish being caught into and in the backs of a lot of pockets and larger fish being on the points or just inside the pockets.  Flipping wood has also produced some quality fish as well with not as many numbers but good quality.

Jerkbaits, A-Rig’s, squarebill crankbaits, spinnerbaits and fliiping a Bass Kandi T-Craw have been our primary tools over the last week. Crappie have been caught casting 1/8oz jigs in and around cover with a wide variety of colors producing.

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