Before my recent pond fishing trip, it had been about a year since I had been fishing. Up until the last couple years, I'd fished as many as 50 days a year. Only fished 3-4 times early last year. I let my boat sit so long, it needed a starting battery. Bought a battery on Friday, cleaned off the cobwebs and got the boat started. Not sure if I've mentioned it or posted pics before but I have a 17-ft Bass Tracker, with a 40hp Merc. Nothing fancy but it's the best boat I have and it has caught a fish or two.
Anyway, I went fishing on Saturday morning on Tellico Lake. We've had a little cool weather, call it blackberry winter around here - it's the cool snap after dogwood winter. Wednesday night and Thursday night, we had lows in the 40's. Cold for this time of year. Saturday morning, it was about 52-53 when we launched at first light. Fished around docks and boat houses mostly 3-10 feet of water. We immediately started catching fish. So much action, no pics. Haha. Sorry. My friend caught the biggest and the most from the back of the boat. He got one just over 3 lbs, my biggest was just under 3. All largemouth bass, except one smallmouth. All the LM were 14" or better. We boated about 12 in the first couple hours, then it slowed way down. Sun came out and the wind picked up. We thought the sun might the fish under the docks but we couldn't find them consistently. Just a bite here and there. Most of the catches came on green pumpkin plastics on the bottom - worms, lizard, creature baits. Friend got a couple on topwater. My last one was on a Zoom fluke. We fished 'til about 2:00 pm, no activity the last hour or so. I'd call it a good day! Good fishing and I didn't break, tear up, or lose anything.
Just FYI from the useless information department...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellico_ReservoirIt was flooded when I was a kid. A lot of news stories, court cases, etc. surrounded the project - endangered species, Native American archaeology, imminent domain, etc.
I'll take some pics next time.
