Spent 9 days in Tennessee working with a friend of mine that lives there and managed to spend 1 afternoon on the water. We fished the Gallatin Steamplant on Old Hickory from 12pm - 6pm for 30+ skipjack herring but no stripers. We did see one striper landed near us that went about 13 or 14lbs, and another on a stringer that was about 25lbs.
Interesting fishing, not one that I am used to at all. Amazing how you can toss a net and get all the 2-4" threadfin you want and how you can catch a 15" bait and toss it out on a hook! In California, both of these would come with a hefty fine and give the offender a terrible reputation on the water. Not much to it I guess, just have a bait out at the right place and time. Everyone was doing the same thing, not a big secret or any special technique that I could see. If we could fish live bait in CA records would be falling one after another. Of course there wouldn't be anything left to catch after the 1st year, though, because we have way too many fisherman and very few bodies of water.
I would like to get back out there in the summer, though, when the 10lb hybrids are crashing topwaters and other lures. I hear you'll get hybrids, white bass, yellow bass, and largemouth all schooled up together at times and ready to eat. Now that sounds like fun!
Back to casting and casting, hoping to get one fish over 20lbs in So Cal......
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