Old Hickory Lake Guide Service Fishing Report- April 3

Posted by ian on April 3, 2016

Spring has finally arrived and with it has come good fishing and beautiful days! Fishing on Old Hickory has been good over the last several weeks for both bass and crappie. The bass fishing has proven to be more consistent with crappie fishing showing good signs of the approaching spawn. The water temperature had been on a nice steady climb until the last couple weeks where unstable weather has dominated the area once again. Water temps have ranged anywhere from mid 50's all the way into the mid 60's with water clarity ranging from dirty to clean depending on where you are. The weather looks to be a bit unstable again this week but hopefully wont affect the bite too much and the good fishing continues.

Bass fishing has been good over the last several weeks and fish have been caught super shallow all the way to super deep. It seems a lot of the fish are defiantly pre spawn and we are starting to see fish cruising pretty heavily in the shallow water looking for a place to spawn. I still think we are a couple weeks away but fishing should only continue to improve. We have been fishing primarily shallow rocky flats close to deeper water and using squarebills, spinnerbaits, rattle traps and dragging 1/8 oz shakey heads have been most effective.

Crappie fishing has picked up over the last several weeks and the best should be just around the corner. We are focusing on depths between 7-12 fow and have caught all our fish staying back off the brush and casting 1/16^th and 1/8^thoz jigs. White, chartreuse/white, chartreuse,  blue/white and blue/chartreuse have been the best colors

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