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Old Hickory Lake Guide Service Fishing Report- 05/11/2014- 05/28/2014

Posted by ian on May 28, 2014

  

Fishing on Old Hickory has remained good over the last several weeks with great numbers of both bass and crappie. The majority of the bass are post spawn now which has the smaller fish biting like crazy and made finding the bigger fish a bit tough. This is typical for this time of year when the smaller males hang around guarding the fry and the bigger females scatter out and begin transitioning to their summer haunts. Junk fishing has proven most effective over the last several trips with many different techniques working from ½ oz jigs in 20 ft to square bills in less then a 1 ft.  Water tempature has continued to steadily climb over the last several weeks into the high 70’s to low 80’s with a slight stain in most areas.  

As I mentioned earlier we have been catching bass anywhere from 1ft -20 ft and on a wide array of baits including crankbaits, spinnerbaits, jigs, shakey heads and topwater baits. Our best pattern lately has been fishing the grass in the mornings and cranking the mid depth range(6-9 fow) the rest. Best baits have been frogs, buzzbaits and spinnerbaits in the grass and shallow/mid depth crankbaits  and spinnerbaits in the afternoon. A shakey head around docks and isolated cover has also been productive after the morning bite dies.

The crappie bite is still excellent on Old Hickory with both quality and quantity being caught. We are still focusing in 4-10 fow and casting small 1/8 oz crappie jig with tubes or small swimbaits in white, chart/white, chart, blue/chart, blue/white. The crappie are also headed out toward deeper water so start looking around old creek channels as they begin to pull out and suspend.

Here at OHGS we use brand new high grade fishing equiptment from Denali Rods, Lews reels, Sunline, Santone Jigs, Fish Terror Baits, Bass Kandi soft plastics, and other top of the line equiptment. I am a United States Coast Guard licensed captain and 100% dedicated to making your trip the trip of a lifrtime, I still have dates available in June so lets go fishing!!!
Ian Huey